American Politics

“In the last few decades, conservatism movements, largely shaped by the ideas of fundamentalism, had influenced policy making and election result”: says the host of the show @Brookings in an interview with an American journalist E. J. Dionne. From the Christian right to the tea party to campus activism, the American political landscape have been through changes. Now political figures often rely on religion to make a political point. With the belief that religion and politics should not be mixed, we ask ourselves what role could religion play in political matters. If it does play a role, does it make a politician better suited to be at his position than another person?
Early immigrants came to America with the shear hope of freely practicing their own religion. They wanted to escape the brutal English civil war and the many European religious persecutions. Our forefather did not want the future of our country to have similar religious causalities. As a result, the Establishment Clause was included in the first Amendment to prohibit congress from establishing a national religion or the preference of one religion over another. With the Establishment Clause, a person running for a political position, whether he is religious or atheist should not feel discriminated against and should have an even shot at this position as his running opponent. Yet this is not what we see on our soil. A person may have the necessary tools to heighten the prosperity of our country, but his campaign will definitely suffer if he is an atheist. We cannot help but wondering why that is the case in our country.
American journalist and political commentator E. J. Dionne provided an insight on the matter. He explained that people view religious faith as a sort of surrogate for a sense of a person’s moral. Indeed, our country is populated with citizens that have many distinct ideologies and ethics. Times come when causalities bring to the forefront of national interest what people view as...