Political Religionism

Political Religionism
Basic Information
Aliases	Religionism Religious Democracy State Religionism Soft Theocracy Religiousism Esoteric Democracy Esotericism Spiritualism Political Spiritualism Political Esotericism Religious Statism (abbrev.) PolRel (abbrev.) RelDem
Alignment(s)	NonQuad Religious Pro-Democracy Esoteric
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Theocratism Liberalism
Character Information
Likes	Religion, Spiritualism, Democracy
Dislikes	Irreligion, Enforced Atheism

Political Religionism also known as Religious Democracy is an ideology that represents the beliefs and opinions of those who feel that religion should be involved in government. And as such is likely to support state-funded religious or spiritualistic institutions, buildings, and organizations. However, PolRel distances itself from Theocracies in that it seeks not for religion to be imposed on members of its society, but for institutions to strengthen beliefs naturally, religion having a subtle influence, not an immediate authoritarian one.

This brings us to the aspect of the ideology most often called Religious Democracy, it seeks to imitate western democracy, whereby the people are given power to choose leaders and policies through democratic elections and voting. However, it seeks to distance itself from other western liberal societies by proclaiming state religion, and rejecting secular, irreligious, and atheist philosophy, dogma, or practice.

However, for the ideology's sake, it does not always have to advocate for a Religious Democracy, looking back at the google definition of religionism, it is simply:
re·li·gion·ism
/rəˈlijəˌnizəm/
noun
excessive religious zeal.

When applied to politics, a follower of this ideology may be unsatisfied with only them individually achieving the religiousness or spirituality that they have, and as such may be zealous about their religion or spirituality, seeking to bring this religiousness and spirituality to others. That's what this ideology is about, being neither secular or theocratic, but encouraging religious values and spiritualism through government intervention, letting society and politics be driven by religion, without religion driving the totality of it as it is in theocracies.

Variance

Of course it must be realized, that just like with theocracies, political religionism or religious democracy usually concerns a certain religion or way of religious/spiritual thinking such as in the case of Islamic Democracy and Christian Democracy, both variants of Political Religionism or Religious Democracy. However, this does not always have to be case, as this ideology sometimes aims to increase religiousness or spirituality in a population even if a plurality of religious options are promoted. But, more often than not, this ideology will manifest as the variant promoting the religion or spiritualism that the follower believes in. Those two are a great example of how Political Religionism has been applied in the real world.

How to Draw

File:Religious eye.png

Symbol of Political Religionism

1. Draw a ball
2. Draw the 'Religious Eye' symbol, representing religion in general, the image is provided for reference
3. Fill in the religious eye with purple or orange depending on which style you're drawing
4. Draw two eyes (preferably closed to signify deep thought or meditation)
5. Fill in the ball with white (if drawing the first style) or yellow (if drawing the 2nd style)
6. That's it!

Further Information

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