Religious Politics Quotes

It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

If you persuade the Sikhs to join hands with the Muslim League, we will have a glorious Pakistan, the gates of which will be ... in Delhi itself...

You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

In 1980, evangelicals overwhelmingly elected a candidate who was a known womanizer when he was in Hollywood. He would be the first divorced president in U.S. history. His name was Ronald Reagan. And when evangelicals voted for Reagan, they weren't endorsing womanizing. They weren't endorsing divorce. They were endorsing Reagan's policies.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

When Democrats kind of cavalierly attack the religious right or go after Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, our candidates have sent the signal to a lot of religious people, 'Well, I guess they are not interested in me.' And I think this includes a lot of people who would fit very naturally within the Democratic Party.

The Dali Llama uses religion to intervene in politics.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

These days, the Americans have come to think about Islam once more. They need Islam to fight against communism

When a Republican tells me that God’s hand is in his, demand to see his credentials.

Democracy is the only true political expression of Christianity

When you say “radical right” today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

You have sent us a rich man, untrained in diplomacy, unlearned in history and politics, who is a great publicity seeker and who is apparently ambitious to be the first Catholic President of the United States.

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.

When it comes to matters of religion and state, Bayit Yehudi is more extreme than the ultra-Orthodox.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

No Catholic is or can be a Red Republican or Socialist.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.