People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.
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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.