Politics and Religion...Whats the difference?

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Politics and Religion...Whats the difference?

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Are they not both the same? :confused2:

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led by the spirit wrote:Are they not both the same? :confused2:
As a group human acitivity religion is a subset of social politics. It is a subject of sociology. It's a material behaviour that thinks it's not.

It is not an attractive politics and as a metaphysics it fails.

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reâ‹…liâ‹…gion
–noun
1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

pol·i·tics
-noun
1. The art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs.

No, not the same.
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religious people believe in gods kingdom which is much higher than politics..

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One's political leaning can become one's religion, or one can bring one's religion into the realm of politics, but they are not words that are interchangeable.

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theAtheistofnoIllusions wrote:One's political leaning can become one's religion, or one can bring one's religion into the realm of politics, but they are not words that are interchangeable.
The only difference between a political ideology and religion is one describes what to do for the living world, the other describes what do to for the afterlife.

And politics is nothing but the struggle over resources. So there obviously is politics in religion. But that doesn't mean religion and politics are synonymous words.

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Politics interact but aren't the same.

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In religion there is nothing interest to got something from there religion but after all they love there religion.but in politics they were always ready to bet the party.

in the other way i can say in religion we have have the god filling which we can't got from the politics.




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in the other way i can say in religion we have have the god filling which we can't got from the politics.
I get a filling feeling from cake.

What is this feeling you speak of?

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Religion and politics, not the same at all. Religion is the choice of the individual, while politics deal with the collective.

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