For some interesting thoughts on religion and politics, read Why Do Christians Try to Impose Their Beliefs on Our Politics? on Alternet.  This interview with the author of Taming the Gods is an interesting look at these topics spanning continents.  In Republicans v Secular America, Dan Kennedy follows up on the idea of the imposition of religious views on the political system, but focused on the American tradition and current politics.  There are a couple of interesting referential links you should follow in that article, too.

How do you feel about where the spheres of religion and politics should intersect and how that differs from where you see them intersecting now?