American Quote by Rick Perlstein

I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support. But I…

— T. D. Jakes

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

— Russell Kirk

“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

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

— Taslima Nasrin

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

— Anonymous

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

— Laurens van der Post

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

— Michel De Certeau

“We fight amongst ourselves over political and theological differences.”

— Joshua Dalzelle

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may…

— Jon Meacham

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

— Theodore White

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

— Tony Campolo