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The debate over God in Politics has been hotly debated, but in fact, one can never separate a person from their belief system. Christianity, Islam, Agnosticism, Atheism, Satanism, Taoism, Humanism are all belief systems that drive how we engage all things surrounding us.

To debate that we are or are not triune beings with body, mind & spirit, would be absolutely pointless (we will understand in the end, when we discover who is right, and who is dead), but the consensus across the planet is that there are three parts that make up a person, and to that end we devise many systems of engaging our spirits with the unseen world. The arguments do not center around if we should engage spirit, or even if we can, but instead how we should go about it; who's method is correct.

We can easily get our hands around body, and we can see the results of exercising mind (papers such as this), but spirit for the most part remains intangible and human beings are admittedly fallible. It is interesting that when fallible observers view fallible practitioners, and see those practitioners fail, that the observers somehow make the jump that the failure belongs to the spiritual realm. That jump is uncalculated, and inaccurate.

Take Christianity for example. Cynical observers may conclude- God's not real, the Bible is a lie, miracles are fake, etc, rather than take a view that believers may have compromised, or that followers have failed, or that people didn't follow what they said they believe.

We expect that there should be some kind of integrity in the belief system that believers say they ascribe to. We expect that the spiritual world view of the Christian should color all their dealings with their fellow man, whether that be at the grocery store, at home with family, at the workplace, the bowling alley or the zoo. We expect that that person should have some kind of all-encompassing value system that flavors their actions, and interactions, at every turn- lest they be labeled hypocrites. And rightly so.

But when that same person enters politics, we somehow expect them to divorce that all-encompassing value system for the (assumed) spirit-neutral realm of political office. In every area of that person's life before public office, they were to steadfastly hold to that system of belief, regardless of personal discomfort or cost. We expected it and even demanded it. We either verbally, or even more acutely with silent indignation, warned that person that if they said, and did not do, they

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