Religion and Politics

In America, religion and politics are often mixed together. During most elections (especially presidential elections) the topic of religion is brought up. For the religious, it is reassuring for them to know they have the same imaginary friend as the person they are voting for. However for nonbelievers we are left out of the loop here. Religion and politics are irrelevant to each-other. Political candidates will often justify bringing up religion to show that they have a source of morality; but I would argue that it should harm a political candidate to say they get morality from religion (check out: artificial morality.) There is nothing within scripture that is relevant to running a modern secular government — a candidates' religious beliefs should be completely irrelevant.

When a politician brings up his/her religious beliefs they are sucking-up — trying to manipulate citizens to vote for them — when they should know it has nothing to do with the real issues in a political race. When I say 'sucking-up' I am obviously referring to the voters, but not just the voters; if they really believe what they say, they are sucking up to a god as well (see: The Gullible God). A person that "sucks-up" to get what they want, in my opinion, does not make a strong leader. Politicians are applying for a job — the boss is the voters, the interview is the campaign. Why would religion ever get brought into a job interview for a position in a government that has a separation between church and state? Here is an analogy to put what is being referred to into perspective..

You are the manager of a store which is centered on the vegetarian lifestyle — selling foods, books, and so on. You are passionate about your store, you love the vegetarian lifestyle, and you are looking for a person to help manage it. You have two people to interview for the position. The first person talks to you about how much they love the store, how good of an employee they would be, and how much they would love to work for you. In second interview the person talks about how much they love meat, and goes on about a steak they recently had for dinner. Which of the two would make the best employee to work at a store centered on the vegetarian lifestyle?

The answer is obvious — as it should be in the United States. A person "applying" for a job to work for the government of a country that has separation of religion and state should never bring up religion. Like in my analogy, that should be a major turn off. We have separation of church and state for a reason, people should be free to believe whatever they want, but it should never be a political topic — in-fact it should be taboo to even bring up the issue.

In America, the majority of the citizens are Believers. For many Americans, they seem much more concerned about whether a politician has the same imaginary friend that they do, instead real issues. This causes a major problem. It is nearly impossible at the present time for a Nonbeliever to get elected president (most Americans say they would not vote for one). Disregarding how intolerant that shows Americans as being, this causes a major problem for who the citizens have as options to run this nation. The perfect example of this is Sarah Palin. She made no secret of her beliefs during the last presidential election. I could go into detail for why I think she is stupid, but she does a good job doing that herself. Here are some videos that reflect this..

This video shows Palin participating in a strange religious ritual.





This video here shows that this faith-head is against science and is ignorant to the importance of scientific research — which would have been harmful to scientific progress, had she gotten into office.



A person like this not intelligent or rational — which is the complete opposite qualities we should be looking for in a strong leader. This person would be running the most powerful nation on earth. This next video is perfect for displaying how incompetent she is. People should breath a sigh of relief, knowing she did not get into office. Imagine if Mccain won and died soon after? — we would have been stuck with that for four years.




People like Sarah Palin can potentially get into office (e.g. Bush). The main reason this country isn't always able to get the best and brightest into office is because of religion (otherwise the qualification of the candidate would be the only factor).

From what I have seen, President Obama appears to be a Nonbeliever — based on the things he has said, along with his general stance towards religion and science. It seems he lied to get into office. In this country you rather need to be religious or dishonest to be elected (ironic?)