Comments by beLIEve

Comment #42583 by beLIEve on May 18, 2007 at 1:25 pm

This thread is encouraging. Not as many attacks by leftwing pacifists on Hitchens because he supports the use of force against Islamist religious fanatics. Thats progress. I think with this book (and his attacks on Falwell) he has atoned.

2. Root of All Evil? Discussion

Comment #20343 by beLIEve on February 1, 2007 at 11:41 pm

I dont think the people there really understood what kind of government either Canada or the US has. Im an American so I dont understand Canadian govt as well, but we have a Constitution that guarantees Rights no matter what the majority wants. So the christian preacher there can want to create a christian theocracy by democratic means all he wants, he's not going to be successful though because the Constitution wont allow him to. He'd have to start another revolution and scrap our Constitution and the Bill of Rights (which seperates church from state). This is a "Constitutional Republic", not a pure democracy.

This is why "democracy" probably wont work in Iraq or most other places in the middle east, because Islam has too much influence and would win at the ballot box anyhow. You'd have theocracy by mob rule, and that may even be worse than a dictatorship (ie Saddam). The only way you can guard against that is with a good Constitution that seperates church and state and guarantees rights and liberties, and unfortunately most people dont seem to understand that.