Humanism and social change

[JBeukema]

The importance of this thread is Christianity supports autocracy, the enemy of democracy.

We are not a democracy, but a constitutional republic.

It really doesn’t matter. Our country was not founded on Christianity, but rather with a written guarantee that we have inalienable rights bestowed by “the creator”, as opposed to rights bestowed by man or government. The Bible is irrelevant as a context for governance in this country.

Our democracy is the result to literacy in Greek and Roman classics. Prehaps we would benefit from awareness of this?

Again, we’re not a democracy.

I hear that argument a lot...but...it's only half true. We're a constitutional republic with a democratic form of government -yes? no?

Actually, the republic is the form; democracy is the type