Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
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Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.