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To: Michael M who wrote (79643)	5/23/2000 10:04:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

Interestingly, the tribes of Israel were ruled quasi- democratically, with Judges anointed by God in times of crisis to lead them. However, they wanted a king, like other nations, and, grudgingly, God let them have one.... It has been suggested that "Judaeo- Christianity" is an underpinning of democracy. In the case of the United States, that is, in fact, immediately true in a sectarian sense: Congregationalism and Quakerism helped to promote secular democracy. However, it is not necessarily true, as been shown by the compatibility of Catholicism, Lutheranism, and some other denominations with aristocracy. Yet the very exaltation of the lowly that becomes almost a mania in the New Testament:"the meek shall inherit the earth", "blessed are the poor in spirit (the humble)", "he who makes himself first shall be last; he who makes himself last shall be first"; "you are the salt of the earth"; "suffer the little children to come unto me"; "it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven"; and so, on and on, the general tenor of Christianity, with similar passages in the Old Testament, is, in fact, democratic. In fact, Nietzsche blamed Christianity for democracy and socialism! He considered the exaltation of the common to be a travesty that undermined achievement......