Pope: "Democracy Without Values Easily Turns Into Open Or Thinly Disguised Totalitarianism"

LifeSiteNews ^ | 1 February 2006 | John-Henry Westen

[marshmallow]

Democracy is the god of the secular humanists. Power coming from the people, so they say. It doesn't. It comes from God.

It's what we're bringing to Iraq. "Iraq is now a DEMOCRACY!!" *Thunderous applause and cheering.......nods exchanged all around*.

A secular country trying to impose secular values on another.

Who cares?

Christians are being persecuted and their life is worse than before. Ah yes.....but they've got democracy.

The world neeeds Jesus, not some sort of consensus vox populi.

[steve-b]

In just over one generation we have been shifted from a society in which homosexual acts were a crime under the then existing law, to a society in which homosexual acts have become a government-protected and fostered activity, while voicing criticism of it 'publicly' has become the crime.

Moral: When you put your boot on someone else's throat, you will one day wake up with somebody else's boot on yours.

[steve-b]

Not only did he make it legal, he provided no conscience clause for civil servants who objected to it

He conscripted civil servants and forbade them from quitting their jobs?

[steve-b]

Can bad ideas lead to world wars and genocide?

Your proposition is testable. Gather together as many copies of Mein Kampf, Malleus Maleficarum, Das Kapital, the Little Red Book, Ad abolendam, etc as you think necessary. Arrange them on shelves (boxes will do if you run out of shelves). Let me know when skirmishes and pogroms begin to emanate from your library.

[darkangel82]

In other words, it wouldn't be democracy at all.