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OHHHHHHHHHH. Hahaha, completly missed your question. Christianity has been part philosophy/part politics since the beginning. I am not just referring to church bodys like the Catholic church either.
My dad was a pastor. He quit his job when I was about 6 or 7 and we moved to St. Louis so he could attend seminary. After about 4 years there, we were placed in a church. This was a small town settled by germans in California. It was the place that time forgot. The population read like Miami; basically all grandparents. The church body reflected the populus prtty well. 90% of the church were grandparents. Also, this church had broken off of another church, but more about that later. It was great for the first few years. We (dad, mom, brother, and I) helped the church to grow and had younger people attending. Then problems started. Several people were suddenly very vocal about problems with other people. Clicks becaume aparent as we were shocked to see that these pleasant old people actually had deep seeded resentment towards other people in the church. The situation deterriorated until several of the largest families in the church left. It became very clear that this would take some 'political' work. My dad called the pastor of the church our church broke off of. Aparently, we got the troublemakers. We tried having sessions with people, dealing with the issues. It worked at the sessions, but afterwards it al fell back apart. All along, we, the first family of God, had to be perfect. If I had bad grades at school or broke up with a gf, the whole town knew. I would over hear people talking about it in church. The situation got a lot worse, but sufffice to say that we had to leave, and the church broke apart.
There are politics in modern Christianity. There is politics whereever there are more than two people involved. Christians, as far as helping to run the country, should follow God's teachings on morality, law, and gospel. He explained what he wants us to do in the bible.
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