Comment Re:western governments NOT from Genesis (Score 1) 3451
The Idea that we endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, as expressed in the US Declaration of Independence, is central to the understanding of the American mind, if not that of the western world. The fact that we have rights because we are human, and not because some government or group grants them to us, is I think, a distinguishing trait of the United States.
The difference between the results of the US Revolution (Relative Calm in the independent colonies) and the French Revolution (Reign of Terror) may well be explained by the difference in the respective peoples 'Fear of God'.
As for Greek and Roman Representative Democracy - You don't have your facts in order. The Greeks may have practiced limited democracy on a city wide level, but the also had monarchies and oligarchies, that were city wide, and they failed long before the Christianizing of Europe - the Romans did them in. The Romans gave up on Representative democracy idea long before Constantine.
The difference between the results of the US Revolution (Relative Calm in the independent colonies) and the French Revolution (Reign of Terror) may well be explained by the difference in the respective peoples 'Fear of God'.
As for Greek and Roman Representative Democracy - You don't have your facts in order. The Greeks may have practiced limited democracy on a city wide level, but the also had monarchies and oligarchies, that were city wide, and they failed long before the Christianizing of Europe - the Romans did them in. The Romans gave up on Representative democracy idea long before Constantine.
