London Economist Democracy Index: 28 Full Democracies: 26 Have Christian Heritage. Why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_index
1. Sweden-Protestant
2. Norway-Protestant
3. Iceland-Protestant
4. Netherlands-Protestant/Catholic
5. Denmark-Protestant
6. Finland-Protestant
7. New Zealand-Protestant/Catholic
8. Switzerland-Protestant/Catholic
9. Luxembourg-Protestant/Catholic
10. Austria-Catholic
11. Canada-Protestant/Catholic
12. Ireland-Catholic
13. Germany-Protestan/Catholic
14. Austria-Catholic
15. Spain-Catholic
16. Malta-Catholic
17. Japan-Buddhist/Shinto
18. United States-Protestant/Catholic
19. Czech Republic-Protestant/Catholic
20. Belgium-Catholic
21. United Kingdom-Protestant/Catholic
22. Greece-Orthodox
23. Uruguay-Catholic
24. France-Catholic
25. Portugal-Catholic
26. Maritius-Hindu/Protestant
27. Costa Rica-Catholic
28. South Korea-Protestant
Seems the two go together. You can thank God you live in a Christian nation.
We’ve managed to achieve this dispite the attempts of the religious.
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That’s odd, there’s not one thing in the Bible about democracy.
I guess democracy happens in spite of Christianity, not because of it.
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Seems the two go together. You can thank God you live in a Christian nation.
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Christianity was the state religion of Rome, which spread it throughout a number of countries. These countries (or what would become countries) were also exposed to Greek philosophy and other classical writings. While there is nothing that espouses democracy in Christianity, there is a great deal about it in the Greek and Latin classics.
In other words, the connection is incidental.
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It depends first on how "democracy" is measured, because I’m noticing some missing democracies, but yes, in general democratic countries tend to be Christian countries.
But there’s no actual correlation between them. Democracy was invented by Europeans, and the Europeans happen also to be Christians. Democracy didn’t come from Christianity; it was created and employed by Europeans before Jesus Christ was even born. It hasn’t spread much past Europe (it hasn’t even reached all of Europe yet), but that’s because the idea hasn’t spread much past Europe. In some places, like Iraq or Afghanistan, democracy was forced without the idea being popular among the population first.
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