Religion should not be mixed with politics

According to my opinion Politics and religion completely different from each other. We live in country like India where people are from different religion. Religion is the identity of human being, which controls us.

And the politics is the only way which serves our nation. Through politics we developed our nation. In politics we elect different eligible leader so that they work for us to develop our nation and control the human being. So identity means religion should not be mixed with politics.

But now a days we see that politics mixed with religion. Different leaders are stand up from different religion and many of them take d religion as vote bank. During campaigning its seen that they talk various religious issues.

So that they create a egotism towards him as leader from d same caste, tribe simply as the member from the same religion, as a result they vote the particular leader without showing any eligible characters for serving our nation. For that we can't elect good, active leader for serving our nation, so my point of view is that we should not mixed up the religion with politics.

Religion is a person's identity which defines one's beliefs, ideologies and principles. Politics on the other hand consists of activities to govern a country or a region and its people. Hence, politics and religion have a connection even though they appear to be absolutely different from one another.

Politicians, being the chosen leaders, have the favorable scope of communicating with the people where they try to influence them. Politicians can use various religious beliefs and customs of a certain community to gain their support. It is through religious terms that the politicians can have the greatest impact on the minds of all people who was greatly attached to one's own religion.

Great politicians often use religion to create peace, harmony and unity among the people of a region or a country. They try to inculcate good principles and practices among the people so that the governance runs smoothly.

It only depends on the politicians how they would use religion to influence the people. Now, I would give the opportunity to other members of the group to put forward their opinions on this.

In my views, the two should not be mixed. But I think there is no fault of the politicians in mixining the two it's we who are doing that, it's we who have allowed these things to be done in our country, it we who gave the politicians religion as a tool too play with. India is considered as a mother of religions but I guess this diversity in religion which should have been used to actually stand upon the famous line of "unity in diversity" is not being implemented rather we take pride in calling ourselves Muslim, sikh, dalits etc instead of being called as Indians. That's why politicians choose to favour that religion which has majority or whose maximum people support their incentives cause they think that using religion is atleast bearing them fruits to get in power in our country. Definitely who would not like to stay in power. This is not to offend any particular party but if some Muslim political leader would say that Hanuman was a Muslim and give all those long explanations for it definitely Muslims would support him. We have created a wall in human race breaking it into religions.

A religious person who is righteous and loving will definitely care for the welfare of the whole population and hence become a true politician. True politicians can only be righteous and loving. They cannot be anything but religious.

The problem arises when religious leaders restrict the freedom of people to follow their dharma. If such religious leaders gain political power, they ostracize members of other religions. This should not happen. When leaders allow religion to become all encompassing with full freedom to pray and worship in any manner as long as it does not interfere with others, it will bring righteousness and peace to people and will be suitable for any society. Then there will be no cause to fear such leaders. Indeed, such leaders are the need of the time.

Today both religion and politics need a change. Religionists should be tolerant to allow freedom to everyone to follow the religion of their choice. And politicians should be trained in the basic principles of dharma. If leaders are righteous and spiritual, the whole society can flourish and be uplifted.

Hey everyone, Anuj here.

Here, I would like to express my viewpoint "Why Politics should not be mixed with the religion".

As we all know India is a religiously diverse country where people has the right to choose their representative. Religion means to unite all the people whereas Politics means to unite all the people from a particular region. In my opinion, politicians should be involved in religious beliefs. Politics and religion are two separate things. Politicians main focus is to identify problems their citizens are facing and to solve them. But in India, what happens is politicians take the help of religion to win the election. This practice does not only encourage riots in the country but also makes it weak and hinder its growth. On the other hand, citizens are also equally responsible for the same. They also should not run after religion while selecting a good representative but look for the one who can solve their problems effectively.

At last, I think "Religion should not be mixed with politics" is absolutely a true statement.

Well friends.

I strongly believe that religion should not be mixed with politics because;

1. We are seeing lots of terrorist activities happening around the world just because of religion, they think their religion is better and above than any other in the world, and taking religion in politics will be more devastating.

2. India is having a lot of religion in itself taking one will only lead to conflict, as taking one means the one is superior.

3. We need to understand that religion is for people welfare and pure whereas politics is a dirty game we should not be mixed both.

4. Gandhiji said religious should be mixed with politics but by that, he didn't point out on any one religion and India is having numerous religions.

5. India is a secular country and by that, we should know that no religion is superior to any other.

Thus I want to conclude by saying this its good to take some ideas, keeping some point from the religion but mixing religion is not a better option both are different things.

Hi,

According to me, I believe that religion is something that helps you or guides you towards the path of eternal peace and serenity.

We live in a country like India should be thankful to its religious diversity.

According to me, every religion in this world focuses on one thing that is life is a give and take relationship. The way you behave with others is the same that you should expect from others.

Politics in India nowadays have started using religion as one of their manifestations.

Which is not at all good for the future of this country cause it acts as a barrier towards the growth of intellectuality in oneself.

The leading political figures of our country should not indulge the religious sentiments in politics in order satisfy one's greed rather they should focus in inculcating the values highlighted by the religions into their day to day life in order to achieve success, this will not only help them side by side it will also make this country a good place to live in.

Thanks!

I agree with most of you. But if we take religion totally out of politics then there will a formation of corrupt world because following any religion teaches you to be trustworthy to be ethical, it teaches you morality. And if this is taken out of our politics then our political leaders will automatically show there real sides that is selfishness, Greediness, corrupt mindset and all. And this is all because as they are not following any religion so they don't have any fear from within that doing wrong with others will ultimately lead to my problems which is all taught in any religion. Guys, I agree with you that religion should not be mixed with politics but I don't agree totally and I will stick to my viilew point because I'm not saying that only one religion should be mixed. I am saying that religion should be mixed with politics but every religion should be mixed with flexibility that is people should be free to accept and follow religion of there wish. Thanks that's it.

No. Religion and politics should not be mixed. India, as we all know, is a secularism democracy and is blessed with diverse, cultures and traditions and religions. But I think it's easier said than done. Since recent times, most politicians including the present ruling, I feel takes advantage of the majority and minority groups. In my opinion, since India is a secular country, all religions must be given the equal opportunity to express their thoughts and people or politicians of one country should not be allowed to exploit the others (THIS WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT BUT. ).

On the other hand, if you think about it, some people see untouchability and 'honor killings' as part of a custom or religion, certain groups are publicly avoided and are never allowed huge promotions in the economic sector. (There are many more instances I learned in Grade 8 but right now, I forgot). In such cases, I feel politics can and should interfere to ensure that everyone is content.

I think Politics should subserve religion.

But this is first if we redefine what is religion. In the history of India, people have stood for Truth. Without politics able to take interest in Truth without being blamed for being non- secular, this country that has always lead in truth has now been an obstacle by this secular argument which considers religion for a way of living a life on earth rather than knowing the Truth. The quality of religion is being destroyed and the argument is becoming about the rights of each religion rather than live in the Truth that there is only one religion, one god and so merge all the religions as one, there is only one history, we don't have to follow blind faith but excel in this knowledge, but not allowing religion in the arena is making people only interested in money and politics, so politics serve the economy and capitalism only, that is the disaster and religion is used for gains too but not for what it really is.