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¿Question #1593?
ejmowrer: Do you agree that politics has reached religious proportions?

da_miche: no
Woelf: You mean in terms of sheer stupidity potential? It's been there for a long time.
MustardDragon: I agree
Digitalpnk: who cares? politics suck
Enchanted_Heart521: Yes.
Spirit of 70: It did that long ago.
ttron64: That doesnt make sense. "Religious" is not a quantitive measurement.
Corpsified: Not really, though I do think religion has reached political saturation.
ZeroZilla: I think nationalism has, is that along the same lines?
Mr_Six: No, but I might agree that religion has reached political proportions.
fordescort79: In America perhaps
mrsgottrocks: No, but I agree that religion has reached political proportions.
Flying Teapot: Maybe...Even worse, religions has reached political proportions!
DHEK: Nah, not yet. At least not yet where I live, though it is getting quite close!
ACK ACK: Don't vote. It only encourages them.
blindspot: No but somehow religion has reached political proportions.
stevencole: It hasn't before?
aleo09: no
Beyak: I'm not sure what you mean
andsoerinsaid: I do indeed agree.
Nazhuret: um. that doesn't even make sense
scriptorum: That's the best nonsensical question I've heard all day. I'll answer it if you tell me do you agree that religion has reached political proportions?
rovdjuret: Not in Europe...
daveroswell: no.
duLac956: Yes
WildBil: Funny that, when they keep pushing seperation of State and religion . . . .
bigbadsteve: also, religion has reached political proportions
petepat: agree
sidkuhn: No.
falloutfan: No - Unless you consider self interest a religion.
FrozenHoHos: If you mean that I choose not to discuss it - yes.
Ebon Wendigo: Nope
mats-k: Yup.
brainrob: Sad but true
Dr. No: US politics? YES!
vampywife: Yes, and it's quite disturbing
ronster0: amen
Shotmagnet: and vice-versa
Helenoftroy: Yes sadly
BeeCeeJay: Unfortunately, yes.
TheDS: oh, we're past that. WELL past that. but they all draw on the same human fallicy: fanboyism. Really, who CARES who makes the "best" graphics card, if they're priced so far out of reach of you that you'll NEVER EVER have one? Bush is neither a saint or an anti-christ (at least not yet) so why are there so many people spouting off so much vitriol in both directions? fanboyism.
keldrak: yes
LemonyFresh: Sure
Critical Mass: no
jeff brown: For many people on both sides politics has become their religion. Meaning they believe in their party like it contains all truth.
stray_flux: indeed
AbeLincoln: i love lamp.
DaGen: only in the US
mcbeth: Yes
arkibet: no
ZombyDawg: What do you mean? Obviously, you don't know anything about history.
xlorp: Ambiguous question with too few limits. This is not the Current Affairs forum.
Tushratta: Yes, but mostly on the left where politics is the religion.
puffinge: Leece, apparently more than half of us here want this religious dictatorship. How sick is that?
e.c.r.: no - its the other way around and always has been
Cerebus: No. But religion has tainted politics.
CharlieWonka: In US yes. UK no.
Lord_Prussian: um, I don't think so
leece: I'm sorry but sometimes it seems to me that the US is being run by a religious dictatorship. Don't you guys do this seperation of Church and State thing?
Belash: maybe sure?
hobbes_inc: religion is the politics of spiritulaity
Gecko23: Reached? I thought it had always been there.
The Unbeliever: 42
Gargoyle: Random quote of the day: Last time we mixed politics and religion, people got burned at the stake.
Sceadeau: Only in some countries
mandj2001: always been this way. you are just getting older and understand it more.
dpuskas73: Yes
melissa: oooh yeah
erli: Na, it's just reach stupidity
2amp: yes
snoozefest: y
kennyb: no not at all
batman: yes
WasQ: no, religious HAS, long time ago, reached politics proportions.
ValJor: Isn't it the other way around?
djlg: Yes.
Wintergoblin: yes
MisterCranky: Not at all, but I'd admit that politicians cower behind the robes of religion like little altar boys who've just been molested.
BobDodgerBlue: No
FullTinCan: Yes.
Karlsen: Depends on what country you are in I think. In Australia I would say "No"
Mike A: No.
dakarp: Wht proportions are those? Politics are a lot more important in my life than religion, if that is what you mean.
haraggan: No, but religion has definitely reached political proportions
AlorielLelyn: Not quite the height it had in the middle ages, but in some countries it is definitely getting there.
fellonmyhead: No, but idiocy has.
isolated: Oh yeah. I hate my own party. But I hate the other party even more.
sdownin: In that people blindly believe and then spout back whatever they were told by their "leaders" without ever really looking at or analyzing what they were told, and with the way peopl completly ignore any opposing viewpoints proclaiming them to be "wrong" or "evil" without even building a logical argument as to why, yes, politics has reached religious proportions.
chaddyboy_2000: I guess.
davedanger: yup
Ludocrazy: For some people
gnomehome: No
netfilterz: No... except in places where there's no distinction between religious rulers and political rulers...
CDRodeffer: Yes
Jocab: Only in the middle east, USA and a few other places!
ynnen: Um, nope
Blackwind: Without a doubt.
CortexBomb: Has reached? You make it sound like a new phenomenon
louiseh: Not over here, thank goodness.
jttm: Yes
viogression: They're all nutjobs.
Spielfreak: Are you suggesting the religious leaders are fat?
skelebone: No, but zealotry abounds in a lot of arenas, even outside religion and politics.