Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
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.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.