[cowboyway]

I admit my hypothesis is ridiculous but it goes to the point:

It's not that ridiculous. Christianity has been outlawed and Christians have been enslaved, imprisoned and executed in many parts of the world for thousands of years.

[Non-Sequitur]

Christianity has been outlawed and Christians have been enslaved, imprisoned and executed in many parts of the world for thousands of years.

And how many of those places were constitutional democracies?