The connections between and politics is a puzzling question. For some, the two are inseparable. For others, they are necessarily separate. Machiavelli, no not the Machiavelli of the Prince, that so many love to caricature, but rather the Machiavelli of the Discourses on Tete-Live, so passionately spoken of by Claude Lefort, claims that politics implicates an insurmountable division between the political and the religious. As such, any attempt to bind the political to the religious rings the death knoll of the political. For Machiavelli, religion constrains the political by attaching political action and political thought to the edicts and orders of the religious. By suspending political thought to the Word of God or of the gods, the political is uprooted from its immanently human level, and subjugated to the terms and operations of the religious. Following Machiavelli's lead, one is lead to consider that politics is a human practice, not a divine one. Evidently, this assertion has many philosophical effects. However, what are some of its effects as regards faith? Faith, like politics, is a human practice. Although faith, often takes on a religious character, though not exclusively since one can also have faith in political principles such as democracy, freedom, and justice, it is nonetheless a production of the exercise of the reflexive intellectual capacities of humans. Thus, the statement of the sort, "I have faith in..." The ... can be replaced with a number of linguistic categories. For example: God, democracy, the State, the president, the Church. From these considerations, it becomes clear that faith can take on both religious and political overtones and is not exclusive to either sphere. One may object that having faith in God is much different than having faith in the State or democracy. This rebuttal is just. However, in spite of the differences in these different forms of faith, the engine behind these various modes of faith is still nonetheless human passions, human thought, and human language.