Queen Margaret Union Religion and Politics Debate

I am very much looking forward to this debate and hearing what "both sides" have to say.

As with most things many of these questions come back to having an Adequate Anthropology.

If we deny the transcendent we deny a ver large part of OURSELVES.

As such I look forward to asking the question:

Is it not true that religion as a systematic view or reality affects everyone and it is therefore 

inevitable that it will affect those in public life ? 

As such does this not make Atheistic creeds (such as militant socialism) more deadly as these 

adhereants have no higher moral reference point than themselves ?