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A FaceBooker set up a poll asking which is preferred. I replied.
Christian countries
100%
Communist countries
0%
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Barry Desborough
Secular democratic countries. Theocracies are $hit. Always have been., and Marxism is mistaken about human nature, which is why it doesn't work.
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Someone expressed displeasure at my comment. I think they got secularism and atheism muddled up. A secular state merely does not favour any particular stance on any particular religion, or on religion in general. That issue is left to its individual citizens. The reason why the American constitution is secular is that when European immigrants were pouring into what they call North America, (without any legal right - "manifest Destiny" is not a legal instrument), many of them were escaping sectarian strife and oppression in Europe. They were determined to avoid such evils in their "New World". Religious fanatics have fought this aspect of the constitution ever since, but have never succeeded in establishing their preferred flavour of theocracy. Ironically, it seems that Europe is a much more liberal place than America now.
Re. democracy, Churchill once wrote, "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
Marx got human nature tragically wrong, which is why communism has proved to be just as disastrous as theocracy.
The problems with both sorts of countries in the poll is why I am such a staunch advocate and defender of evolutionary science. An understanding of human nature is a requirement for getting our problems sorted out.
Alas, now both liberal secular democracy and communism seem to be giving way to a form of fascistic gangsterism...
Someone expressed displeasure at my comment. I think they got secularism and atheism muddled up. A secular state merely does not favour any particular stance on any particular religion, or on religion in general. That issue is left to its individual citizens. The reason why the American constitution is secular is that when European immigrants were pouring into what they call North America, (without any legal right - "manifest Destiny" is not a legal instrument), many of them were escaping sectarian strife and oppression in Europe. They were determined to avoid such evils in their "New World". Religious fanatics have fought this aspect of the constitution ever since, but have never succeeded in establishing their preferred flavour of theocracy. Ironically, it seems that Europe is a much more liberal place than America now.
Re. democracy, Churchill once wrote, "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
Marx got human nature tragically wrong, which is why communism has proved to be just as disastrous as theocracy.
The problems with both sorts of countries in the poll is why I am such a staunch advocate and defender of evolutionary science. An understanding of human nature is a requirement for getting our problems sorted out.
Alas, now both liberal secular democracy and communism seem to be giving way to a form of fascistic gangsterism...
