Political Theology Quotes

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Government “for the people” should be called a government of God rather than of men.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

The President is the Theologian in Chief.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when President Bush or Senator Kerry or Prime Minister Blair says, "Look, adopt our secular democracy, look at how good we've done. We have a wonderful level of standard of living for our people," what many Muslims hear is, "Turn your back on God and follow what men say."

There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that came out of Jesus' mouth had very clear and unmistakable political connotations to it.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

The temporal power and the priesthood relate to each other as body and soul; they are necessary for state order just as body and soul are necessary in a living man. It is in their linkage and harmony that the well-being of a state lies

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

… the growth of the political independence of Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim groups from the institutions of government has allowed them to exercise greater leverage over the state and the development of more activist political theologies.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and the end of government ... therefore government itself is a venerable ordinance of God

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

Palestinian believers have a unique experience with US foreign policy and our close ties with Israel. This alliance has many layers, but given the strong support of the US church, and the frequency of religious language surrounding these policies, Palestinian Christian friends raise important and challenging questions about how we understand the intertwining of theology and politics in the US.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.