Typical (and failed) Lib-Prog MultiCulti diversionary rant, complete with extremist examples [*].
Nobody said anything about preserving the worst of the past.
Merely preserving The Best of the past...
And, more importantly, preserving The Best of the PRESENT...
Preserving the singularity and superiority of our own body of Secular Law - the laws of Secularized Christendom - within our own domains - our own body of law - with its own flavor of Culture and Identity and Philosophy and Morality and Ethics - as painfully developed and evolved over most of the past 1500 years, and more...
Merely stiff-arming and setting aside subversive attempts to introduce the poison-pill Neanderthal Laws of an alien and Neanderthal Belief System into a system that already works in governing The West and its peoples...
The divine right of kings was a Christian belief. Based on the Bible.
Are you saying the Christians were wrong in that belief?
What has that to do with preserving The Best of history: cultural identity, philosophy, morals, legal system, etc.?
You have a hard-on over this 'divine right of kings' business, looking to leverage it in order to disparage an aspect of the traditions of The West, then to build upon that in order to invalidate more of the collection of traditions, having negated one of them...
Not in any exchange with me, mine good colleague... I have no problem in calling that what it is, and heading that off at the pass, before you can get any traction with it...
The 'divine right of kings' element of Western cultural traditions is NOT one of 'The Best' aspects of our own history that I called-for to be preserved, but one of 'The Worst'; something that can safely be jettisoned...
Besides, it wasn't a Christian Belief - it was cynical Secular Spin-Doctoring on Christian texts in order to conjure-up a juicy rationalization that the ignorant peasantry and burghers could not argue-down, to prop-up various kings and other nobility...
Something that 'we' (The West) concluded was 'bullshit' some decades and centuries ago, and decided to leave behind...
But it was OUR (The West) choice, and not that of some Neanderthal alien belief-sytem-political-structure hybrid...