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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
The one caveat that I would apply to your statement is that India is also a Democracy/Representative Republic, and yet this country is predominantly Hindu.

It is my understanding that the current structure of the Indian Government is a consequence of their being ruled by the British. You know, CHRISTIANS.

What was it like before this? I'll let British General Sir Charles Napier explain.

Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.

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I will further point out that Non-Christian China had a form of government that lasted several thousand years, yet advanced little in those thousands of years. Apparently what people think makes a difference in how their civilization organizes and advances, and as I will point out, the most technologically advanced parts of the world (until recently) were the Christian parts. These are the parts of the world where science got done.

51 posted on 01/09/2015 12:06:48 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

Genetic Fallacy on your part.

Secondly, a person being British isn’t synonymous with them being Christians.

Third, there were non-Christian areas of the world that were well beyond “Christian” Europe during the time of the Dark Ages.


73 posted on 01/10/2015 2:41:29 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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