No honest and religious man could ever get into the political arena.
A politician is expected to make decisions that punish or reward people. By making those decisions they fail the moral test of what is right. By punishing someone, they declare that he or she isn't worthy of respect and is therefore inferior and deserving of injury. By rewarding you allocate advantage to a single individual causing a massive disadvantage for all other individuals, thereby showing favoritism to a few and disrespect to the many. All religions demand compassion, love, and the utmost respect for all of God's creation, which includes human beings. By not showing respect these politicians violate a core principle of their beliefs.
Most religions advocate favoritism to those of the same conviction. This would urge politicians of a religious affiliations to maintain a favorable bias for those like them and a negative bias for those that are different. We see this behavior constantly from politicians. Even the president, with his favorable leanings toward the conservative Christians, is guilty of showing a bias. As long as politicians have biases, contention will never leave politics.
The only person that could be a member of politics without violating any facet of their beliefs would be agnostics or atheists. These people wouldn't breach and spiritual contract by making those tough social decisions that require the use of punishments and rewards.
Voters of a religious persuasion would probably be offended by having a heathen looking out for their interests. Christians and Muslims are encouraged to have children and teach their children to uphold their same principles. This maintains a consistent constituency that keeps politicians of a political persuasion in offices. This means that in order to remove the contentious element of religious bias from politics, a person must attack religion. By addressing the religious bias problem in the political arena would be futile since there, majority is what rules.
The faults of religion must be fought using logic and empirical reason.
A politician is expected to make decisions that punish or reward people. By making those decisions they fail the moral test of what is right. By punishing someone, they declare that he or she isn't worthy of respect and is therefore inferior and deserving of injury. By rewarding you allocate advantage to a single individual causing a massive disadvantage for all other individuals, thereby showing favoritism to a few and disrespect to the many. All religions demand compassion, love, and the utmost respect for all of God's creation, which includes human beings. By not showing respect these politicians violate a core principle of their beliefs.
Most religions advocate favoritism to those of the same conviction. This would urge politicians of a religious affiliations to maintain a favorable bias for those like them and a negative bias for those that are different. We see this behavior constantly from politicians. Even the president, with his favorable leanings toward the conservative Christians, is guilty of showing a bias. As long as politicians have biases, contention will never leave politics.
The only person that could be a member of politics without violating any facet of their beliefs would be agnostics or atheists. These people wouldn't breach and spiritual contract by making those tough social decisions that require the use of punishments and rewards.
Voters of a religious persuasion would probably be offended by having a heathen looking out for their interests. Christians and Muslims are encouraged to have children and teach their children to uphold their same principles. This maintains a consistent constituency that keeps politicians of a political persuasion in offices. This means that in order to remove the contentious element of religious bias from politics, a person must attack religion. By addressing the religious bias problem in the political arena would be futile since there, majority is what rules.
The faults of religion must be fought using logic and empirical reason.
posted by T.S. Idiot at 12:37 PM
1 Comments:
Again, good points!! I don't know if you heard of him, and I don't want to talk politics, but I do have respect for Senator Russ Feingold out of Madison.
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