Reply #248: Christians Aren't Bad... Real Christians Can't Be. [View All]

I believe it was Gandhi who said Christianity is a great religion, but he'd just never seen anyone practice it.

Your thread did bring out many important counter points by some of DU's finest which undermine the false myth that our democracy and form of government was based on "judeo-christian" (a word, that it has been said offends both sides of that artificial hyphen) traditions.

The Greeks, gave us far more with regards to our democratic ideals and law making bodies such as the Senate, as others have correctly pointed out in your thread.

The concepts of good and evil which Nietzsche pointed out to us were Persian, not Jewish in origin.

Asian societies and African societies and "Indian"/Native American societies all had their own long, established great codes for civil ethics without any help from the Jewish or Christian traditions or influence.

This blessed land we inhabit and now call America once belonged to beautiful tribes and highly developed, structured and peaceful societies with very ethical populations long before the Europeans and their traditions ever "discovered" it...and spoiled it.