POLITICAL MAN CANNOT BE A RELIGIOUS MAN

IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A POLITICIAN TO BE A RELIGIOUS MAN OR FOR A RELIGIOUS MAN TO BE A POLITICIAN?

IT is absolutely impossible for a political man to be religious, because the ways of politics and religion are diametrically opposite.

You have to understand that it is not a question of adding something to your personality – religion is not an addition. If you are political, you can be a painter, you can be a poet, you can be a musician; these are additions. Politics and music are not diametrically opposite; on the contrary, music may help you to be a better politician. It will be relaxing; it will help you to get unburdened of the whole day and the anxieties that a politician has to go through. But religion is not an addition, it is a diametrically opposite dimension.

So first you have to understand the political man, exactly what it means.
The political man is a sick man, psychologically sick, spiritually sick.