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Question after speaking with someone: Do you think it’s necessary to have some understanding of the Bible to understand American politics?
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Anonymous 62w

Not really, but it will help you understand peoples perspectives and opinions

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Anonymous 62w

RELIGION AND POLITICS SHOULD BE SEPARATE 📣

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Anonymous 62w

Yes, and philosophy too. I’m not Christian, and sucking it up and skimming some bible sections helped me get through some philosophy and political theory courses

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Anonymous replying to -> nya_nya 62w

See that’s what I argued, however because of how many people base their views around it and how intertwined it is in our society, it would be logical for people to have a basic knowledge of it to see where some are coming from. Though religion and politics should be seperate, they aren’t that much

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 62w

That dosent fly, politics is about having your own opinions and making sure as many different voices as possible are heard, otherwise we’re never going anywhere

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Anonymous replying to -> nya_nya 62w

I wasn’t saying you have to believe a word of the Bible, I was just saying that since a large force of voters use the Bible and religion in political decisions, it could be seen as reasonable to have a basic level of knowledge pertaining to it. Politics is supposed to be varied, but the truth is that the Bible plays a large part unfortunately

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 62w

Well if you want to run for office and influence voters that’s one thing, but I don’t think someone should need knowledge of the Bible for their own political decisions

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