Editorial Reflections on Religious Democracy
Editorial Reflections on Religious Democracy David Arthur Walters | 14.02.2005 The neoconservative spin on the most popular political religion and its roots in fascist thinking. The United States wants to liberate the world from tyranny whether the world likes it or not. The current United States government, a neoconservative government sometimes loosely referred to as a fascist-style government (OED: right-wing authoritarian government) would destroy all those sovereign nations that are “on the wrong side of freedom,” thus freeing the world for exploitation of the “free” market dominated by the United States and its allies. All that would be accomplished in the holy name of democracy. Of course religious democracy has never been adequately defined to everyone's satisfaction, although it has been claimed by almost everyone modern to be the best form of government. “Chaos,” stated the historian Guizot in La Democratie en France, is now hiding under one word – democracy. Thi...