Politics and Religion

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Radek

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I know that I usually say the religion and politics should not mix. But my question is on what your political views are and how you feel about foreign religions (foreign to your own.) It doesn't matter what your current religion is or how you would label your religion. What I'm interested in is your personal political views and how you feel about the religions foreign to you. In the graph I use the term fascinating. This is if you had to take some kind of course that involved foreign religions, would it be interesting to you or would you start wanting to bash the people you are learning about for not seeing religious things your way.

Part of my reason for this is I have heard that Liberals have been seen as unfriendly to religion where Conservatives have been seen as very open to religion. While in my view it's the other way around because it seems to me that Conservatives would be very anti anything involving other religions while some one who is more Liberal would be more open to people of other religions having that religion. This is based upon where you lean more. More Liberal or More Conservative.

For the sake of this poll (and I know it's debatable by some) but if you are atheist (or something simular) that counts as your religion on this thread.
 
I am a conservative Christian, but am very open minded about others points of view. AnotherworRAB, I have my own morals but listen to others with an open mind.
 
I'm not really religious, but am certainly fascinated by both religions within which I have grown up and others. I study Hinduism and Buddhism as well as philosophy which includes Jewish, Islamic and many Christian writers. I also read quite a lot on Islam.
 
Well if you are atheist, then any religion would be foreign to you. Your religious standings are not what this thread/poll is really about. What is important is where you tend to lean more politically and how you feel about the religions (studying the concepts of religion) foreign to your own. In other worRAB, do they facinate you? Or do you feel a need to bash someone in the head from a foreign religion to you. As I said in my opening statement thing, for the sake of this poll, if you are atheist, then that, for the sake of the poll, counts as your religion. If this is offencive to you, then you can start your own poll questioning whether or not it is a religion. But if you don't have a religion, then any religion is foreign to you by default.
 
Politics and religion are two different subjects.:confused:

My political beliefs don't fall under you catagories for the poll.

The atheists comments were what caught my attention. Not knowing any,
I would think they avoid any form of religion.

Everyone takes certain concepts from religion in some form or another for
their own purposes. Middle East religions , like western religions ,are evolving
into different forms and beliefs than what they were meant to be.I'v seen a
lot of changes in just the past 20 years.

interesting poll:xhoho:
 
For the purpose of this thread both atheist and agnostic count as your religion, considering that any religion would be foreign to your own. That's just on here that it counts.

Non-Political?
Do you by anychance lean a certain way more than the other? If you tend to lean even slightly to the left, you're "more Liberal" and slightly to the right, you're "more Conservative." Don't even tend to do that?
 
I love learning about other religions, especially Eastern religions because I have Asian roots. :) Like Daoism and Confucionism...both are very interesting to me. And I think the Bible makes an entertaining read. *shot by rabid fundamentalist Christians*
 
I wanted to update this and I also wanted to try and rephrase what I was referring to in my poll.

Politics: If you tend to lean more to the left, you are considered to be more liberal (for the purpose of this poll) and like wise if you lean more to the right, you are considered more concervative. For the purpose of this thread, it doesn't matter where you are at on the spectrum between Moderate and the left or right.

Religion: When I say foriegn to your own I mean the religion you don't have. If you don't have a religion at all (or even questioning) then all religions would be considered "foriegn." For the sake of the poll, the idea of how you feel towarRAB those religions is based upon anything from being able to carry on a nomal (dare I say) civilized conversation with someone of another faith (or of A faith for some people) with out trying to argue with them about being wrong or willing to do a text book study of what goes on in other religions without wanting to cause a fuss about what it says in the textbook.

Does this clear anything up or not?


Also, one more thing that I wanted to make clear... I do understand that politics and religion are 2 different things (and should stay that way). What I was wanting to find out about this was if any political views were more open to other peoples culture (in this case specifically, religion) than the other or if political views didn't matter.
 
I think I'm a liberal (your American political labels throw me - in Britain government votes you and all that) thus my politics make me interested in how others tick and how best to integrate them into society. Though of course as a Meist it's more a case of know thine enemy. If nothing else it indulges my hobby in anthropology.

My agnostic and atheist frienRAB (comrades?), I know we tend to be instinctively suspicious of certain views religion being one of them, but c'mon give the chap a chance? It's very easy not to notice when you slip out of objectivity (I most likely am doing it now).

Ooaman: Judging by the Poll so far what are your conclusions?
 
This is a leading question. 'Other religions than my own'? Sweden is secular but nominally christian yet I have no closer relation to it than Wicca or Hinduism except that there
 
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