Brookings Review, March 22nd, 1999
Politics can weaken religious values. One way politics is harmful is when it makes participants oblivious to the dangers of worldliness. Politics also generates more emotion and passion, leading to acrimony between participants. Religion can also be weakened when political participants attempt to bend religious doctrine to satisfy political goals. What a Senior Devil Might Think about Religion and Politics In 1942 the Christian writer and Oxford don C. S. Lewis wrote one of his most influential books, The Screwtape Letters, in which a senior devil, Screwtape, instructs a junior devil, Wormwo...
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