Politics and Religion

Bob Choi

24 September 2012

They have much in common. Both promote belief and faith over fact and science. Both appeal to people's emotional needs at the expense of rational thought. Sometimes the two are so intertwined it's hard to keep them separate: the Vatican is a political powerhouse; on the back of the US dollar bill, it says: In God We Trust (Why?); it's wellnigh impossible for an atheist to run for any public office in the US for one would need to take oath touching the bible (so while we boast our religious freedom, we are not free to be non-religious. How ironic!)

One more thing they share in common: both were responsible for more human deaths than any known diseases.