How do religious beliefs affect politics?

What is your religion? This question have had been asked to practically everyone in the whole world. I would tell you how I would NOT answer it. I would not answer it by saying I am a Christian. But I believe in Jesus Christ as my saviour, and that He is God’s son. I read the Bible for guidance and I go to church. So why would I say that I am not a Christian? Well first of all, Muslims would describe a Christian as an adulterous drunkard whose greed is bigger than his faith. But of course Christians would disagree and would throw an insult the other direction immediately. Well, one can’t blame Muslims for saying this because a lot of people claim that they are Christians but do things that are against Christian teaching.

Examples are politicians. They thrive to get the support of the Christian church for elections but right after winning that election, they go straight back to corrupting the government and stealing loads and load of money from the people who put him there, at that position in the first place. Of course these politicians say that the are Christians, but are they really? These politicians know that religion is a major factor in politics. Since religion penetrates the human’s use of logic and reasoning in making decisions, it is the best tool for politicians to attract voters. Religion really affects politics. An example is politics is different for areas that have different religions. We see how different the Chinese government to ours. We can see how different they handle political issues, how different they make their laws, how different they chose their political leaders and how different they handle their people. Another is that religion has its own rights and wrongs and most of the laws and punishments are derived from this. If not, the people would see a politician as unethical if they would make a law against their religion. In contrast, how different would they treat a politician that made a law that is in accordance to their religion? The point is that religion affects people and people are what politics is all about. This suggests that religion really has a great affect in politics. Certain religions have unequal treatment for the two sexes, so consequently, political issues like feminism, women rights, circumstances that would benefit one sex, would arise in this country with this kind of religion. Religion also has specific roles for certain members of a family, so consequently the government with this kind of religion would have a similar structure of power. Religion also has great power over media, and media is one of the windows to politics.

For me, religion is a really big part of politics. Though religion may not predict what would happen in politics, religion might not be enough for politics to function greatly, it is a major contributing factor to the existence of political issues and other parts of politics. It may be a positive effect like a baseline amount of rights for people, animas and the environment, or negatively like have discrimination in laws and biases in the sex of the political leaders. Politics can use religion and religion can use politics. So where does this put us? I think, knowing this, that it is really up to the person on how they would let their religion affect their own brand of politics. Will you use this relationship wisely or use it to your benefit?