Adherents to this way of life find it preferable, while some ascetic schools of Hinduism or Buddhism also reject political involvement for different reasons.
In certain schools of Islamic thinking, nations are a creation of Western imperialism and ultimately all Muslims should be united religiously in the ummah.
Likewise various Christian denominations reject any involvement in national issues considering it to be a kind of idolatry called statolatry.
In recent decades, however, this view has declined in popularity among Nation of Islam adherents or been rejected outright.
[citation needed] In the United States, a 2006 survey indicated that 2% of those who did not register to vote cited religious reasons.