On a scale from 1-5, how much is your political perspective hinged upon your spiritual and/or religious belief

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America really needs to stop voting based on their religious beliefs. Danburry batist letters from Jefferson should be a foundation taught in school; however, public schools are trying to get intelligent design taught in class rooms. We're turning ourselves upside down and in the future will most likely pay.

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This does not necessarily mean that I entirely separate my spiritual and religious perspecive in matters politiial But I know that politics is a mundane matter and will follow its own rules.Let Caesarbe given what his due. Hwever,I may measured the political actions on spiritual scale and may support/not support depending on my appreciation of its being in keeping with high spiritual values or otherwise. However, if they are overtly religious e.g. the anti-Muslim tirade in India I will vehemently denounce them. Let the priest rule our conscience and the ruler rule over our mundane matters.

I know alot of fellow pagans believe in the Summerlands, but i have never even researched it, Any sort of afterlife to settle into whether it be heaven, hell, reincarnation, summerlands, nirvana etc, are not fathomable to me. I'm not being rude, or arrogant. And as nice as it sounds to travel into a place like that after death, to me it is unreal, and impossible. Yes it is a curse in a way, because i do think about death alot more than other people. I am afraid of it because i know once it happens, that is it. Most days i'm settled with it, death is inevitable. But regardless of what someone says about the soul, the physical body is either cremated, or buried and left to go back to the earth. You leave behind all of your loved ones, your accomplishments, your travels, everything. I do believe in spirits/ghosts, but that is a separate story. No one has come back and said there is a heaven or hell when they've died. People who die and come back on the table are mostly already believers, who think the voice is god and the light is heaven. For the rest of us, the light is the big shiny thing that hangs above your body during surgery, and the voice/s come from loves ones and doctors. <slight pessimist.

1 . but can't a person have some spiritual perspective without it being religious ?

5 - I am a so called liberal, mostly because that is what the conservative media would title me with. My spiritual beliefs impact my perspective on everything.

1 - seeing that spiritual beliefs should NOT be involved

5 out of 5 deffinately.