In today’s modern world I find that religion and politics are more relevant to religious belief and expression than social class and power, and ethnicity and gender. In America I feel politics and religion go hand in hand. Most of the original founding documents in America have some sort of religious affiliation. Even our currency has a religious affiliation, “In God We Trust” can be found on every paper currency in America. When George Washington first took the oath into office and decided to add God into the oath and placing his hand on a bible America’s faith was basically decided. There was a mad dash for people to join churches and other denominations of the Christian faith, as this is what America became. I remember when Obama
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The pew research center said that “while members of historically black Protestant churches, Jews and people who are not affiliated with a religion are largely Democratic, members of evangelical Protestant churches and Mormons lean more Republican.” (Pew Research Center—Religion & Public Life: 2008). Religion aids in deciding whether you have a more conservative view or liberal view which intern leads you to follow a political party in America. In the modern world politics are everything, they decide what countries do and how the world and societies should be. Religion would be the next big thing after politics. Since these two concepts are huge how could they not be intertwined and be the driving force of societies. There are so many more examples that I could continue talking about that further shows why I think religion and politics are the most relevant concept in modern …show more content…
I think that what we see the most of is that within these concepts are social groups based on social class, power, ethnicity and gender. The social groups formed from these concepts would tend to have the same beliefs and most likely the same religious beliefs or that these social groups tend to have the same religious beliefs. Scientology for instance, tends to have more wealthy Caucasian followers. The social diversity of religions tend to be based on these other concepts of political views, social class, power, ethnicity and gender. According to some statistics Christianity tends to have more female followers then male followers. Maybe you could even say that these concepts drive the beliefs of these social
The pew research center said that “while members of historically black Protestant churches, Jews and people who are not affiliated with a religion are largely Democratic, members of evangelical Protestant churches and Mormons lean more Republican.” (Pew Research Center—Religion & Public Life: 2008). Religion aids in deciding whether you have a more conservative view or liberal view which intern leads you to follow a political party in America. In the modern world politics are everything, they decide what countries do and how the world and societies should be. Religion would be the next big thing after politics. Since these two concepts are huge how could they not be intertwined and be the driving force of societies. There are so many more examples that I could continue talking about that further shows why I think religion and politics are the most relevant concept in modern …show more content…
I think that what we see the most of is that within these concepts are social groups based on social class, power, ethnicity and gender. The social groups formed from these concepts would tend to have the same beliefs and most likely the same religious beliefs or that these social groups tend to have the same religious beliefs. Scientology for instance, tends to have more wealthy Caucasian followers. The social diversity of religions tend to be based on these other concepts of political views, social class, power, ethnicity and gender. According to some statistics Christianity tends to have more female followers then male followers. Maybe you could even say that these concepts drive the beliefs of these social