Here in today’s world, the Bible is generally applies as a political material where it is constantly brought up in the government and court of law. Specifically, it is very important to note how influential the Bible is, especially for the recent political agenda concerning marriage, abortion, and religious freedom. To clarify any misinformation that the Bible may have influenced the world around us as well as to challenge how the media has shaped this misinformation. In regards to the political influenced agendas, a key component this essay will be focussing on the Western society; specifically America and who fought for what they believed in and how they came to their beliefs. The Bible is core to this centralised idea because of how influential
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Through the Bible, the sanctity of life is what is assumed as “the goodness of creation, the inherent value of life” and is upheld as the basic principle of “all life is precious (Wallace, 2013). Through the Bible, the “Pro-life” movement takes assumptions made from the Bible and pushes forward to dictate life through laws and regulations. This relates to religious freedom where though religion should not mandate law, Christianity has been an exception where it has affected real lives, no matter what their own religious beliefs. In (Hamburger, 1993), it states that “government does not unconstitutionally discriminate on the basis of viewpoint when it subsidizes family planning clinics that favour childbirth over abortion but denies subsidies to programs that provide abortion counselling”. This shows a heavy burden the Bible had influence over when it shut down the health care clinics. The fact of the matter is the “Pro-life” movement stands hypocritically on what they say they believe in. The fight for life fails in regards to lives that actually matter based on the principles of the Bible such as global warming, war, the usage of weapons, poverty, prisoners, and caring for children, the sick, whereas “Christian” political parties are directing their attention for a …show more content…
From the persecution of Islam after 9/11 and the Church shootings around the world, religion has always been a focal point to the attacks of the world. According to (Mahmood & Danchin, 2014), there is a history of ideas where it describes religious liberty as “inescapably context bound and inseparable from contingencies of politics, power, and history.”. In regard to European history began the principle of political secularism where the aim was to separate religion from politics and aspire for the “state to be indifferent to claims of religious truth” (Mahmood & Danchin, 2014). However, political secularism admitted to be a unstable concept due to the result of a “circumstantial casuistry” of historically embedded political concepts rather than a principled commitment to the separation of church and state (Mahmood & Danchin, 2014). Through the years it began to take place where any other religion besides Christianity would express change into the Western world but would be neglected whereas if Christianity went around expressing change, it would be seen as a “mission” for God. Undeniably saying that religions do have the right intentions however, it is important to note socially how the world views different expressions of
Through the Bible, the sanctity of life is what is assumed as “the goodness of creation, the inherent value of life” and is upheld as the basic principle of “all life is precious (Wallace, 2013). Through the Bible, the “Pro-life” movement takes assumptions made from the Bible and pushes forward to dictate life through laws and regulations. This relates to religious freedom where though religion should not mandate law, Christianity has been an exception where it has affected real lives, no matter what their own religious beliefs. In (Hamburger, 1993), it states that “government does not unconstitutionally discriminate on the basis of viewpoint when it subsidizes family planning clinics that favour childbirth over abortion but denies subsidies to programs that provide abortion counselling”. This shows a heavy burden the Bible had influence over when it shut down the health care clinics. The fact of the matter is the “Pro-life” movement stands hypocritically on what they say they believe in. The fight for life fails in regards to lives that actually matter based on the principles of the Bible such as global warming, war, the usage of weapons, poverty, prisoners, and caring for children, the sick, whereas “Christian” political parties are directing their attention for a …show more content…
From the persecution of Islam after 9/11 and the Church shootings around the world, religion has always been a focal point to the attacks of the world. According to (Mahmood & Danchin, 2014), there is a history of ideas where it describes religious liberty as “inescapably context bound and inseparable from contingencies of politics, power, and history.”. In regard to European history began the principle of political secularism where the aim was to separate religion from politics and aspire for the “state to be indifferent to claims of religious truth” (Mahmood & Danchin, 2014). However, political secularism admitted to be a unstable concept due to the result of a “circumstantial casuistry” of historically embedded political concepts rather than a principled commitment to the separation of church and state (Mahmood & Danchin, 2014). Through the years it began to take place where any other religion besides Christianity would express change into the Western world but would be neglected whereas if Christianity went around expressing change, it would be seen as a “mission” for God. Undeniably saying that religions do have the right intentions however, it is important to note socially how the world views different expressions of