Faith and Politics

Whether religious groups and organizations should be allowed to form political parties. Whether the faith group should be allowed to influence government activities. From the earliest days of Plato, there was a sense of farewell between the church and the state until our founder first drafted the Constitution. Since the enactment of the 1776 US Constitution, the United States government knows that there should be clear separation. Even with this definition of separation, many citizens question the specific aspects of the first amendment.

As a believer, more specifically as a worshiper and a follower of Jesus' teachings, I often find that I am in tension. Especially when faith and politics are increasingly intertwined in the United States (apparently). It's time. Tension became more obvious when listening to statistics like "Washington Post" when 80% of Evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in 2016. I allow you to agree with the word evangelism at the original level. English terms are transliterated from the Greek euangelion. It means the original message of the Gospel, the birth of God, death, and the resurrection.

Several weeks after Donald Trump was elected, I sat in a meeting room in Washington DC, and served as a counselor for the political groups and the Democratic National Convention. The tone of the room was dark and serious. We together raised an important issue. That is, most of our country inquires after the election. As people who are committed to the Democratic faith, most of us have urged the democratic front and all the Democratic presidential election campaigns to accept and extend faith in the past few years without great success.

In the United States you have similar dissatisfaction with the emergence of new voters. Leftists and rightists have lost confidence in the political process, political institutions and political institutions. These emotions are easily played and manipulated by people like Donald Trump. Sometimes in the world people are being bullied by their environment, people become their own bully. Many people around me, including conservatives and liberal factions, think this is one of the decisive moments in their lives and the legendary life of the country. After the election, the people on the left side was almost sad, so trying to understand it, I think I realized that there is some sort of mourning, innocent loss.