FREE ESSAY ON HOW BELIEF SYSTEMS EFFECT POLITICS

HOW BELIEF SYSTEMS EFFECT POLITICS

The belief systems of the modern world have helped determine the policies and politics of
nations around the world. For centuries before, and almost definitely for decades after
now, 
there will be disputed between people and countries on account of their faith. Religions
have 
started wars, ended them, impacted, and persuaded people. Needless to say, beliefs are
very 
influential on the world today. People of different faiths don't only fight over their
basic 
beliefs and land but they end conflicts.
Making amends between religious groups greatly helps relieve the constant strain of 
division that we are all too aware of these days. The Lutheran religion began 482 years
ago when
monk, Martin Luther, attacked the practices of the Catholic Church. These who followed
his 
ideas eventually into what we call Lutherans today. For those 482 years, Lutherans and
Catholics
have stayed divided on uneasy terms. Now the leaders of the modern Lutheran and Catholic

churches both signed a document that laid to rest those many years of differences under
the 
explanation that it was all a misunderstanding.
Sometimes different faiths just don't seem like they want to even try to compromise 
on a conflict. The Jordanian Muslims and the Israeli Jews fighting over which side of the

Jordan River Jesus was baptized on is a perfect example of this. The Muslims have
invested over 
one million dollars t fix up the site. The site will bring in expectantly millions of
tourists 
and with them billions of dollars that will be spent locally to boost the economy.
Looking past 
the irony of the Jews and Muslims disputing over a Christian site, the focal point of the
quarreling
is that such a site will bring. The Pope and Prince Charles have already scheduled a
visit, but
as of now, no resolve has come about.
These days it's not always conflicts between two specific regions, but between regions 
occupied by faiths who disagree on certain topics. The two groups being the Israelis and
the 
Palestinians, and the compromise on the rift in the settler movement conflict arising in
those 
countries. To the Jews the West Bank is part of the greater Land of Israel, given by God
to the 
Jews. To cement their control over the land, the Jews built forty-two hilltop encampments
on the 
West Bank. They did this to prevent it from becoming a Palestinian state. The Palestinian

government claimed that some of the outposts didn't have the necessary building papers
and twelve
of those sites were dismantled. This disagreement is, for the time being, settled
peacefully 
despite the denounced accord from the Palestinians. In the future more outposts are
likely to be
taken down.
Whatever the rhyme or reason, religions and belief systems have tremendous effects on 
the way things work in this world. Hopefully nations are learning from their past
mistakes what 
not to do if such an occasion arise again. Whether the Lutherans and Catholics are
putting years
of disagreement behind them, the Jews and Muslims are settling their dispute, or Jewish
outposts
are being taken down, we are moving forward into a new and brighter future, and gaining
information 
as we go along. Maybe in the future, more of the religious spats will be settled as the 
Lutheran/Catholic dispute was...peacefully.