Religion and Politics

When religion influences politics, what we have is a big mess. As we have seen, repeatedly, through out the history, these two ideas are best kept separate. "War is merely the continuation of policy by other means" said Karl von Clausewitz. In today's world religion has become merely the continuation of politics by other means. The result in both case is destruction. People need to have faith, faith gives purpose and probably meaning to once life. But their faith shouln't be such that some selfish, blood sucking f**kers (pardon my French!) may exploit them. The recent episode of Benny hinn in Bangalore has yet again brought the political colour of religious practice in India, when the CM of Karnataka choose to attend the meeting. Many scholars and columnist wrote articles about the incident expressing the anger, amusement, and concern about such meetings in general and CM behavior in particular. They raised lots of questions in their articles, many them are published online. What surprises me is that why these, so called mouth-piece of Indian society who claim all kinds of legal violation by the CM of Karnataka, didn't take him to the court. You need not get a verdict, just get a holding which would form a precedence to the such events in future. Let me tell you one thing, the success of democracy, liberty, and freedom of choice and faith lies at the collective wisdom of individuals practicing it. It is a pain staking process, if we want to achieve it legally.