Religion in Politics December 09 2007
Article: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/06/religion-in-politics/
Summary:
Recently, the U.S presidency candidate, Mitt Romney, has announced upon the subject of how his Mormon faith will inflence his presidency. However, he is not the only one who has brought religion into politics. In the past, famous politicians such as Mike Huckabee, John Edwards, John McCain, Barack Obama, Fred Thomson, Hillary Clinton, and Rudy Giuliani. These people have been affected by religion somehow and it has now become the main topic of the present days with Mitt Romney.
My Thought:
After reading the article, I have realized that religion is an influential factor of politics. According to Wikipedia, religion "is a set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people. Also, politics is defined as "the process by which groups of people make decisions." In these two definitions, there is a common term, "group of people". Hence, there is a similar relationship between these two factors. This similar relationship, in my opinion, is that people often make decisions based on their common beliefs and practices.
However, I believe this relationship between these two factors will ignite more problems. As a historical fact, the sole factor that has brought the most bloody event is the religion. Jews have been suffered through Holocaust due to their religion. Also, the war between Pakistan and Israel continues because of different beliefs in religions. Hence, ironically, religion has been an agent, which ignited many problems. Hence, I believe if religion is considered as a important factor in politics, then this will also bring more problems. People will support a candidate who holds same belief as them, which will take them away from making a reasonable decision because they should pick a candidate who should run the government, not the religious group. In the case of present world, Mr. Romney should not go into a religious path. This may help him to earn more votes, but I dont think it is a right thing to do because religion is just a personal belief that one should keep it to themselves. Therefore, I believe religion should not act as a key factor in the politics because it will certainly lead to greater problems in the future.
Article: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/06/religion-in-politics/
Summary:
Recently, the U.S presidency candidate, Mitt Romney, has announced upon the subject of how his Mormon faith will inflence his presidency. However, he is not the only one who has brought religion into politics. In the past, famous politicians such as Mike Huckabee, John Edwards, John McCain, Barack Obama, Fred Thomson, Hillary Clinton, and Rudy Giuliani. These people have been affected by religion somehow and it has now become the main topic of the present days with Mitt Romney.
My Thought:
After reading the article, I have realized that religion is an influential factor of politics. According to Wikipedia, religion "is a set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people. Also, politics is defined as "the process by which groups of people make decisions." In these two definitions, there is a common term, "group of people". Hence, there is a similar relationship between these two factors. This similar relationship, in my opinion, is that people often make decisions based on their common beliefs and practices.
However, I believe this relationship between these two factors will ignite more problems. As a historical fact, the sole factor that has brought the most bloody event is the religion. Jews have been suffered through Holocaust due to their religion. Also, the war between Pakistan and Israel continues because of different beliefs in religions. Hence, ironically, religion has been an agent, which ignited many problems. Hence, I believe if religion is considered as a important factor in politics, then this will also bring more problems. People will support a candidate who holds same belief as them, which will take them away from making a reasonable decision because they should pick a candidate who should run the government, not the religious group. In the case of present world, Mr. Romney should not go into a religious path. This may help him to earn more votes, but I dont think it is a right thing to do because religion is just a personal belief that one should keep it to themselves. Therefore, I believe religion should not act as a key factor in the politics because it will certainly lead to greater problems in the future.
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