Why do questions about religion or politics create so much 'hatred'?

If you want to argue bring up politics or religion, otherwise don’t. You are not going to change someone’s politics or religion with a conversation. Religion is faith based. Religion comes from within. That is not going to change with a few words.

Politics should be more rational. It is not. The two major parties run slick ad campaigns that are designed to divide us on issues that have nothing to do with their performance. They want your vote not your attention. If we as voters would look at what the individual Congressmen and Senators did in office, we would not re-elect over 90% of them every election cycle. Both parties have good ideas, but the ideas are not discussed to any extent. Not during the elections and not during congressional sessions. It is more important to keep us divided for our votes than to solve the problems. Their goal is to get re-elected and fixing the Nation’s problems does not always serve that goal. Just a few examples of issues that get lip service, water, power grid, oil, roads and bridges, wasteful spending, education, and many more. What do you hear about during an election cycle, gay rights, abortion, how many houses do you own, birth certificates, someone’s gay daughter, someone’s pregnant daughter and a bunch of other divisive chatter. They win their election; we lose our voice. It is very frustrating but I doubt that it will change.

The two topics you should never discuss just for that reason . The two subjects go to the core of who we are and we protect our fundamental belief system.

... Fear.

... Fear of loss.

(I wanted this answer to just be the word "Fear" because that's what it really boils down to. But Hub kept saying my answer was too short ... so here is lengthy explanation of why my answer is simply "Fear." Am I wrong? Is it deeper? My money is on Fear [Which is pretty deep].)

The reason would be because a individual person's ability to be themselves and their own arrogant stance of they know right from wrong, or belief of one's own ability to determine what is real and what is fake.

This inability to distinguish the when one is wrong, even tho they may think themselves right. Their own arrogance gets in their way to form rational thoughts.

As for the voting.....people vote toward their belief without using rationale. Yes, I've seen some of the voting for some of the question I pose and if the question or answer is related to "politics" or "religion", those people believe what they believe and assume that their belief is right. Most refuse to see any other rationale that does not conform to their own belief, so they irrationally vote against those who don't think like they do.

The answer is simple. We can't allow others to be different from ourselves without judging them by our standards. People for some reason always believe their way is the best, therefore all others must be wrong. Much of what I believed in my youth I am now questioning. This doesn't make me a bad person or wrong for it. I am entitled to my own opinion just the same as everyone else.

In religion I would blame it on ignorance. No man knows the truth of God yet every race and culture profess to be in his favor and offer self sacrifice in the form of blind faith. In most cases this blind faith is defended to the death and is believed to be rewarded by the sadistic object of ones affection. Thus the ignorance.

In politics I would blame it on intolerance. Everyone develops or is indoctrinated with ideological views that polarize them into groups based on issued relating to religion, race, culture and others. Every group believes that their views are correct and are reluctant to compromise for the good of the society in which they live.

some people find that subject offensive. if somebody says "there's only one true religion", other people think that they must be narrow-minded, even arrogant. surely, there's some good in all religions or at least most of them.