Agendas Quote by Elizabeth Joan Smith

I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It…

— James A. Michener

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

— Laurens van der Post

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will…

— Gary Bauer

“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power.…

— Randall Balmer

Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the…

— Desmond Tutu

Religion is often politics made sacred.

— Gloria Steinem

The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting…

— Anonymous

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion,…

— Jack Germond

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

— Tony Campolo

The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract people that…

— Tobias Forge

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

— Theodore White

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan