How can religion influence the government?

Answer 1

Religion should play no part in lawmaking, although those who make the law may in some cases feel guided by their personal religious beliefs. Laws should be made for all people in the community, and can reflect the moral and ethical values of the entire community, without imposing specific religious values on those who do not follow the dominant religion of the community.

Answer 2

Religion is the product of the Human Consciousness and the extra thinking of the mind. The religion plays an important role while making the nay laws. Laws are for the people and religions are also for the people, so we can't separte these two words from each others. It sa relationship like the meat and bone of the Human body. Question is, how the religion influence law making process? is the answerable one. The law should be suitable as per the public opinion and in accordance with their views.Religions teaches us about the righteous things and way for the future activities.It provides the basic guidelines to the people which is the right path for them and which is the wrong.

The larger people having religion wants to make the laws in their own benefits. In context of Nepal , Cow is regarded as the Hindu Godess from the Vedic era so killing of cow is prohibited by the nepalese law and punishiable one,see how Hindu religion has influence over the law.

India and Nepal are under the whim of extreem Hinhuism so their most of the laws are in favour of Hindus. The Muslim religions has formulate their own laws as per the religion or people consideration.

So, in different aspect the religion influence the law making process in other countries including Nepal also.

Answer 3

Read the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, The Ten Commandments and the Law/Christian Ethicists' viewpoint on the related links below to come to your own conclusion. You will notice that the US was founded upon the Christian/Judeo concept.

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God was created in the image and likeness of the political/religious leaders to satisfy the administrative expediency of the respective societies and cultures.

Religions were usually closely associated to whim and fancy of the affluent and the influential persons in the society. Religion gave politicians and the rich individuals the tools to control their workers and servants. Crafty individuals cleverly exploited the ultimate human fear of death. Their objective was achieved by creating an abstract concept of Heaven and Hell so that they could induce their workers to maintain loyalty and obedience through the fear of sin and death. They used natural acts of nature to authenticate their ingenuous fabrication. They convinced the gullible workers that these natural disasters were demonstrations of God's wrath upon them for their various misgivings from time to time.

Religion has been used as a tool to maintain political dominance of the world order. It was developed mainly around social cultures and traditions; it was mainly a way to influence social behaviors through the use of moral suasion. Most of the Laws governing social behaviors (sex, marriage, reproduction, gambling, intoxication) were designed to satisfy religious prejudices.

When competing religion/politics threatens the economic control of another then persecution is used to destroy the competition. Religious persecution has more to do with wealth, power and greed, than it has to do with righteousness and piety.

AnswerAs a Brit, and speaking for British law, within the UK, the whole Law system has been influenced by the Christian heritage of the country. The parliament in the UK is known as the 'Mother of Parliaments', and not without reason. During the days of the British Empire, when most of the land mass of the world was governed by Britain, the laws set in place in those countries reflected the Christian background of Britain. Now, this for the most part was a good thing, as it tended to bring peace and order, but modern attitudes against colonialism and aggrandizement of a particular country means that Britain's conquest of many countries is not seen in quite the same light.

Nevertheless Britain still maintains a huge commonwealth of nations across the globe from Canada to many African countries, to Australia and the south seas. And each of these countries has at its bedrock laws that were formulated by the British parliament that adopted Christian priinciples, namely the 10 commandments and the 2 commandments of Christ, at the centre of the Law.

Answer 4

First of all, your question covers a very broad perspective since religion varies from country to country and are influenced by different factors so as a FILIPINO I will have to answer your question in the "Pinoy" sense that is, by relating Philippine religion to Philippine government and I believed it has also some similarities with other countries. Firstly, the non-separation of the church and state did contributed to the influence of religion to government at the time of Spanish Colonization of the Philippines. The archbishop had the absolute right to intefere with the ways of the Governor-General (mind you, his the direct representative of the King himself). In the two novels of Rizal he tackled this things revealing that the "walls of the church" could withstand the very fortified headquarters of the spanish so, religion really played an important part in influencing the government but we want CONCRETE FACTS therefore there is the need to answer the question HOW?. Religion could influence the government in many ways such as:

1. Land Ownership

2. Land Titles

3. Taxes

4. Decision held in courts (Rizal died for this reason)

To sum it all up, they can influence them by fully having ABSOLUTE RIGHT OVER GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS.

BUT in modern times specifically in the 21st Century there is now the separation of church and state but still the CHURCH could still interfere when we speak about RH BIll and all laws that has regards for morality.

-tried my best to answer it-

RSHS IX- III - DD........ 2011 -2012

Answer 5

How has it not? Religion is probably the biggest influence on political policies and agendas that has ever existed throughout human history.