Live and Let Live, and Religion in Politics

I'm going to avoid a lengthy first post, because it would get convoluted.

Religions have sets of morals. Most major religions also believe in some sort of eventual comeuppance, or divine retribution.

Then why, for the sake of god, do people of the religious and spiritual bent seem bent on pushing their ecclesiastically inclined set of morals on the entire world?

I mean, let's take a popular example: abortion. Judeo-Christian religions believe that abortion is murder and is therefore a sin. Sinners are punished with damnation. Therefore, why can't these religions' practitioners just wait for god to judge the sinners?

Basically, why do people of a religious inclination try to 'judge' others, when God is the only one who is supposed to judge?

Obviously this comes into politics quite significantly (just look at President Bush, who is a born-again Christian [quite fundamentalist]), and can be quite an uncomfortable state of affairs for people who aren't spiritual.

[SEN D-F]

You get a lot of religious folks who simply ignore things about their religion. Its okay for them to bad mouth gays and people who get abortions, but who cares about the fact that they're not supposed to judge people.

Its mainly a case of them wanting to push their beliefs on to people. What better way to do it; simply insult them, bad mouth them, try to ostracize them and try to convince others that they aren't deserving of the same treatment as everyone else. If one were to succeed at this the attacked group would no doubt have a lot of members fall to the other side simply to be accepted by society again, despite what they truly feel.

Its just like in history when you'd have groups of Christians threatening to kill entire groups of people if they refused to believe. They're not concerned with actually getting people to truthfully follow them and believe with them, they just want everyone to agree with them. Whether they truly believe and accept the religion isn't important to them, they just want everyone to say 'yep, you got it. you guys are right!'.

[dr_rock]

because the major religions actually demand that followers attmpt to convert the non-believers or infidels. and thats in the scriptures.

if you are part of the 'correct' religion then it would be sinful jus to let everyone lse stay in the wrong and end up in hell. or so they beleive.