Topic > Religion and Politics - 1634

Believing in an idea that governs everyone's life will influence all aspects of everyone's life. You simply cannot live a “Christian life” involving religion exclusively and be divided when it comes to politics. So believing in anything shapes each individual as a person: it creates their boundaries, it defines morality and what is right and what is unjust. Therefore, religion will always be linked to politics. As a result, I am researching the inevitability of two seemingly separate ideas overlapping and influencing each other. In my last article, I looked at how religion and politics overlap with each other in the Renaissance, and I continue my hypothesis in this article, however focusing on the post-Renaissance era aspect. The two ideas need to be balanced and it is quite difficult to find an equalizer when a person cannot avoid the influence of their religion. Some might argue that atheists have balance, on the contrary, are they not influenced by choosing not to believe and denying every possible idea of ​​religion? Religion and politics are thought to be separate ideas, but on the contrary they influence each other in more ways than society wants to acknowledge. First, religion and politics influenced each other and people noticed it. Alexis de Tocqueville, for example, encountered the great influence of religion on politics, particularly in America. He traveled from France to America to study prison systems, but became entangled in their social and political inequalities in the early 1800s. Tocqueville writes in Democracy of America: “There is almost no human action, however particular it may be, which does not originate from some very general idea which men have conceived of the Divinity, of his relation to humanity, of the nature of his own divinity. ...... half of the document ...... citizen, or James Madison who was in the middle most of his life and finally agreed that it was too complicated to involve both together, so he suggested that they should be separated. Furthermore, Mill was cautious, because he believed that religion tended to be unilateral rather than multilateral and could create obstacles in the search for truth. Weber, Smith, and Marx all concluded on the same argument they were involved in, but would partially disagree with the outcome of each argument. Karl Marx believed that religion was the bane of the proletariat, Weber and Smith believed that it was an advantage to teach people that making money and trying something new is not as bad as society tried to tell them. Religion and politics will forever be linked to each other, because history repeats itself and has a way of remaining in everyone's life.