Faith, Grasshopper?

To what extent is political party affiliation a reflection of faith?
Think about it, even with the evangelical movement, organized religion is on the wane (not the secularized variety, mind you) and so to what extent have people replaced their sheep like affection for their church/synagogue/chapel/parish with the donkey and the elephants?

Would this explain the new Gallup Poll which shows how clearly divided the Dumbs and the Repugs are on the question of illegal wire tapping?

It really bodes horribly for the separation of church and state if the state has become the church! The dogma of the party must be repeated and revered lest what - the voter burn in beaurocracy? What sort of control mechanism (ie "fear of God") do these parties have? Isn't it basically vanity? Have people so identified their politics with what in earlier times would have been their religion? It is so frightening to think that there are so many people prepared to accept and repeat rather than reason and opine.

Nothing new in QD's observations. Here is someone who says it much better:
Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed