Have you ever had your behaviour towards other people influenced by the words of a politician or priest?

Politician no, but minister of religion, yes - positively. Many times. Not because someone 'told me what to do', (which they didn't), but because they gave me quite deep insights. It was people who actually lived what they talked about. To put all religious (or other type of) people into a single box reveals a complete [i]lack [/i]of insight.