Episode 32: What's so Great About Democracy?
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Democracy is a humanist system, unleashed by the French in the late 18th century (the US, founded a few years earlier, was a republic, not a democracy). We connect them with the “three unclean spirits like frogs” in Revelation--liberté, fraternité, egalité, sinon le mort. These unclean spirits “go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty” [Rev 16:13-14]. This very day, the US is locked in a struggle in Iraq to democratize the Middle East, and is meddling in Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority to the same end. Most people seem to believe that this is a wonderful thing--but I ask, what’s so great about democracy?
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Democracy is a humanist system, unleashed by the French in the late 18th century (the US, founded a few years earlier, was a republic, not a democracy). We connect them with the “three unclean spirits like frogs” in Revelation--liberté, fraternité, egalité, sinon le mort. These unclean spirits “go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty” [Rev 16:13-14]. This very day, the US is locked in a struggle in Iraq to democratize the Middle East, and is meddling in Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority to the same end. Most people seem to believe that this is a wonderful thing--but I ask, what’s so great about democracy?
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posted by Len Budney at 7:37 PM
1 Comments:
Christine! How you been--it has been a few years now. How'd you find this show?
I think I agree with your comment about "socialism", where the big difference between you and most people today is that that your idea of socialism is a bit more... voluntary? Acts describes believers sharing things in common, which is wonderful. The difference is that they didn't gang up and rob people who didn't want to join the commune...
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