In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.