Sometimes I’ll come across a post by an atheist blogger about the need to keep religion out of politics, they want “policies based on scientific findings” and “reality-based government.” I’m not sure that science has come up with a solution for all of the problems we face and given the size of the spending bills passed in Congress, I’m not sure that the politicians have a grasp of reality.
Politicians can’t separate themselves from their worldview, it clouds everything they do. It’s the lens through which they view the world. A Christian politician would want to govern in such a way as to glorify God and all the issues that he faced would be examined in that light. How does the politician separate who he is from what he has been elected to do? How can he govern in such a way as to turn his back on everything that he knows? What principles would govern his actions? Societal norms? Those are based on the same Judaeo-Christian principles that the secularists would have him abandon.
Those who contend that politics should be separate from religion should try to envision what it would be like to govern apart from their principles then they might understand how impossible it is to separate religion and politics.