When political parties ride on the back of religion, it is rarely the state that suffers the most – it is the faith itself.
Globally and domestically, the dangerous fusion of the spiritual and the secular has transformed religion from an immutable moral guide into a raw tool for worldly power. When the boundary between the house of worship and the polling booth dissolves, public perception shifts. Faith becomes tethered to the behaviour of opportunistic politicians and the inevitable failures of administration. To protect the sanctity of belief, we must separate religion from partisan politics.
When politicians weaponise faith to mobilise voters, they strip it of its deeper theological and moral complexities.
