Religious Apoliticism

Religious Rejectionism
"I just want to reach enlightenment, for God's sake."
Basic Information
Aliases	Religious Apoliticism Lazy Theocracy No-no Theocracy Apolitical Theocracy
Alignments	Center Culturally Apathetic Religious
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Apoliticism Religion
Ideological Information
Notable Theorists	Jane Pierce (1806-1863) USA

Religious Rejectionism is an ideology and the bastard child of Apoliticism from his college days, who was abandoned by his mother and adopted by a monastery. The son and father are extremely similar, as neither holds a political belief, though he has the excuse that he does not partake in politics because he believes it interferes with his religious practices.

Reasoning

There are multiple religious reasons why one might reject involvement in politics, especially democratic politics:

• The belief that the religious identity of a person should be their most important identity. As such focusing on secular politics goes against your religion.
• The belief that sovereignty is ordained by divine right, and as such to mess with sovereignty is to mess with the divine.
• The rejection of the legitimacy of the state one lives in based on religious reasons, therefore rejecting the politics of that state.
• The belief that secular politics is a distraction from religious activities and that they should not get involved.

There are some faiths that specifically reject participation in politics, including:

• Jehovah's Witnesses
• Baha'i Faith
• Rastafarianism
• Old Order Amish
• Hutterites
• Hellenism (who reject participation in politics which are deemed "not democratic" enough)
• Shaykhiya
• Christadelphians

How to Draw

Flag of Religious Apoliticism

1. Draw a ball
2. Draw an outline of a castle tower from bottom to centre
3. Draw the eyes

Relationships

Friends

• Apoliticism - My father, who I haven't seen since I was a kid.
• Religion - The reason I can't stand this political nonsense.
• Secularism - I like to keep my religious belief to myself and not affect anyone.

Frenemies

• Theocracies - Respects religion, but also wants political involvement.
• Feudalism - Sinful politics and all that, but he knows a good castle when he sees it.

Enemies

• Religious Nationalism - Stop putting religion in the political realms.
• Religious Democracies - Same thing with you guys. In fact, you're more effective than the guy above.
• State Atheism - He wants us to be persecuted.
• Everyone else - Enough with the inherently immoral politics.

Further Information

• Religious Rejection of Politics by Wikipedia
• The Radical Rejection of Politics: as a means of achieving God's redemptive work by Ian B. Johnson

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