Topic: Christian and politics - page 3. (Read 753 times)

I believe it's a matter of them being afraid but politics being the game of lies, death, cheating, and other sorts of ungood things.
Nevertheless, this doesn't stop some Christian from joining the political race but most Christian decision is based on if their calling or destiny responsibility has to do with politics.

Protestant churches in America and elsewhere don't accept the Pope. Neither do Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox. The Coptic Christian Churches of Aswan, Egypt, which make up about 10% of the people of Egypt, don't accept the Pope, either. Besides this, there are loads of Catholics who quietly don't accept the Pope except when they are forced into showing it.

We don't want Papal Politics in America.

  Yes Christians are to get involved in politics in order to make the country a better place. It is not everybody that calls himself a Christian, is a true Christian because most of them don't practice Christianity. For instance,the catholic church Pope is the head of all christains in the world,if a Christian country is having challenges in good leadership or maltreatment of citizens by the government,the Pope can visit such country to see the president or send representatives to put the president back on track on the right way he is suppose to lead his people.

  God is the best leader,therefore a good Christian that practices his faith will also be a good leader because he will be directed by God. Go back to your bible and see it yourself.
 

My take is that it's pretty foolish to lump any category of people into a certain behavior.  Granted this is sort of what politics has come to, us vs them, but it's no less dumb.  Everyone is different.  Some Christians lie, some Christians don't.  I don't think there's anything exclusive to Christianity that makes it's followers more likely to lie than other religions, so I find your thread a bit emotional and stemming from your personal experience more than a broad overview of people. 

The reason why all this characters are their in politics is because Christians and believers have abandoned politics for very long time. So the people who are accupying the seats are liers who have turned politics to a place where dirty game is being played. Politics was not made for bad people.

I don't know why many christians are afraid to get into politics allowing the bad people to dominate and spoil things for us. The christians need to do the right thing to safe the world and get to do the right thing. Some persons that are into politics may have missed it all affiliating with the currupt people that have bad intensions to create uncertainty that could be detrimental to the merit citizens.

Well to clear it from you i will give you an instance, Religious leaders have never applied such principles but i can say those are false prophet who always speaks that God say of this and that. A Leader is always far away from being Paster as i know too well if not they can not maintain good Relation with Mighty God as politicians are not a sincere body. So any Pastor who involved in politics has soiled his mantle and may likely working with canality.

I also see reason for your question. If politics is a dirty game why must christian involved in politics? And really politicians are not truthful, they lie, they kill, they idolatry, they do all such of evil and they are inhuman. So if Christians join politics are to do all the above characteristics in politics and those things are against God's principles. And the preachers of the gospel are against these things. Therefore, with all these things. Should a christian join politics? OP I support your question.

A leader who has not been honest in their actions is inhumane. The person's religious beliefs are irrelevant. Lies can be used to persuade people to believe untrue things and gain their support. False information has a well known tendency to influence people's perceptions of those in power. They get at least some grasp of the complexity through lying, which may encourage them to refrain from making broad allegations on them. Politicians are known for lying, and they do it to benefit the interests of the people. Whether Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism etc lying to get People’s love and to be voted into a position is not right.

No any political seat is designed or meant to be engaged with lies, deceit and all manners of atrocities, it's the people themselves that render the high level of insanity to these positions, if you're truly a Christian indeed then there's nothing bad in engaging into politics but because of large number of those in there were occultic, they wouldn't but drag you into their circles to become a member and begin to misbehave showing ungodly behaviors, if you're not interested in them then they begin to raise oppositions against you, so nothing bad with politics and religion but alot wrongs has been set by we human being that has tune my mindset and mentality on the wrong path.

According to the Bible history Christians did not neglected politics.  If leading a country was a sin or will lead to sin, people  like David, Solomon wouldn't have had interest to be leaders of their country, and they did very as leaders because they have the truth in them.
If truly this is what the Bible says I don't see why Christians will see politics as something that is not good, Christians need to involve in politics. Most Christians allow ignorance and too much believe not to allow them to do right things. You don't expect unrighteous people to rule and think good things will come .

Christianity has its foundation on the teachings of Jesus Christ and He and his followers was never involved in any form of  politics. They criticised the government for their wrongdoings and remained apolitical. After His death many false Christian leaders began to adulterated the religion with their views and ideologies. Kings and government began to use religion as a tool for expansionism and imperialism. Currently religion is now a tool of manipulation and wealth acquisition.

Politics especially in Africa stinks. It is full of hatred, killings, intimidation, lies, betrayal, corruption, wanthom stealing,  selfishness, rituals, etc. The challenge is that even if you want to be a decent politician, you might either be killed or frustrated out of politics. Except African political system changes, it will never be conducive for a true follower of Jesus Christ.   
 
My political orientation is far above religion and tribe. Only competent and trusted candidate should be voted into political offices. Poverty has no religion or tribe, hence they should never be a political factor. Currently clergymen have been blinded by strong desire for material things. They endorse candidate because of their selfish interest and not for the good of the masses. There is nothing wrong for religions leaders to sincerely endorse reliable, competent and trusted candidates.   

Religious leaders are role models, the people that follows them tends to believe in what ever they say because they think they hear from God directly. It will be bad if such person tell his congregants that God said and the things God said did not come to pass. It questions the faith of the people.

Religious leaders have used name of God in politics and there is no results. What does such act do to the congratulation. Let religious leaders stay away from politics.i think it's better that way

In politics today we've Christian involve because of the educational aspect and the knowledge our elderly one have, it will keep to  buy the ideals of the youth and the elderly one in keeping his promises toward what he/she can do to help the youth and everyone covern,
He/she will will bring a good government that everybody will benefit from the good government,
A good government that have good Christian will admit good body's.

This why we will always have bad politicians because good Christians and other religious body have choose to leave politics for one particular set of persons.  It is not bad for a Christian to be a politician, Christian can use their good Character to change the bad political system. If we have politicians that don't lie we won't have leaders that steals funds.

It is not good for a Christian to join politics or be a politician,reason being that politicians are liers,and lieing is a sin.Most person's  say that the best way is not to make promises that you cannot fulfill but why they need to avoid politics is because the Bible says christians should abstain from all appearance of evil. Nevertheless,it is good for Christians to vote during election so that they will have a leader that will that can guild them well.

They can, as a citizen but if they're defending their faith against the policies of the government, they clearly have to do whatever it takes to prove their faith. But for me, they should just focus in saving souls rather than joining these debates and supporting political parties and personalities. Known is that politics is dirty and they should be the one to clean themselves or avoid anything related to it unless the politicians are the ones asking them help but, we can't be sure if those are pure intentions. Because we know that politicians will always be politicians that will make politicking obvious when they approach a group, religious or not.

'free speech' means anyone can lie...especially those who call themselves part of a religion like Christian.

You cannot trust any human to govern you ever, period. That is why true Christian (or other religions that teach God is good) teach each other to look to God (and the good lessons involved with the religions...I will say 10 commandments as example). Never look to another HUMAN... they have greed by nature which is a natural, but something we always should be aware. (Everyone wants to feed their own mouth first, not anyone else's mouth)

Religion is like an institution on how to do good things throughout our lives. Without this knowledge passed down through generations, humans would elevate men into God status again (we already did that in human history)

Maybe that is a good way to look at it. Before God was popular idea, people elevated other humans to be gods...

Lying and giving fake promises are not morally right irrespective of what religion the person belongs too and if God punish everyone who made fake promises then this world should be a lot better place than now so it means people are doing what they can do within their power, social status, financial status, etc and if the judgement day is true then they will get what they deserves.

Like it or not politics affects us all without minding our religion. If you're a Christian and choose to be uninterested in the politics of your nation, if a bad person becomes leader, you will still be affected by whatever decisions they make. As a Christian, even if you do don't like to get your hands dirty by being a candidate, you can still be very involved in the electoral process of your nation, do don't just stand aside.