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You have to remember that Christianity dates back 2,000 years, while "modern democracy" isn't even 150 years old.

The Catholic Church has always had a difficult time dealing with democratic forms of government because it knows better than anyone else that most human beings are dumber than bags of rocks and therefore have no business participating in the affairs of government. This is why the Church has to lay out a series of strict guidelines like these -- if left to their own devices, people will often support a morally bankrupt form of government over a morally legitimate one.

Remember, it was the crowds of people who wanted Pontius Pilate to release Barabbas.

You're right, of course. Most countries require voting, by law, whereas it is a right in the United States and we don't horse-whip citizens into polling places. But, threatening with eternal damnation those dummies who don't care about voting is odd.

I don't understand people who don't vote. My dad never voted after voting for JFK in 1960, and my wife is the only person in her family who votes. I'm glad; they'd vote Democrat if they did.

Obviously, I couldn't agree more. Popular government has been, is, and always will be a disaster. The idea that vox populi, vox dei is blasphemous and contrary to the First Commandment.

Like the worshippers of Moloch in ancient Canaan, the citizens of the most democratic nation in the world today are characterized by their hedonism, their lust for gold, and their enthusiasm for child sacrifice. If this were a truly Christian culture, there wouldn't be an abortion clinic in the country left standing. Oh, sure, we vote pro-life, but voting won't get rid of abortion: most people want legal abortion. A constitutional amendment won't fly for the same reason: not enough states would support it. (And, as we've seen, the effort to put pro-lifers on the Supreme Court simply results in the nominee getting Borked on nationwide TV.)

The obvious solution would be simply to bulldoze the clinics and keep bulldozing them until the abortion industry gives up -- but we can't do that, for obvious reasons. Therefore, since the majority rules, we just have to go along with it and allow the daily murder of innocent human beings. After all, the People have spoken.

And when the majority decides that some other class of human being is "life unworthy of life"? I guess we'll just go along with that, too. All hail King Mob, and the media handlers who inspire them.

most human beings are dumber than bags of rocks and therefore have no business participating in the affairs of government. This is why the Church has to lay out a series of strict guidelines like these -- if left to their own devices, people will often support a morally bankrupt form of government over a morally legitimate one.

Reminds me of something the late Rich Mullins said one time:

"Democracy isn't bad politics, it's just bad math. A thousand corrupt minds are just as evil as one corrupt mind."

I miss him.

In reading a very good, concise history of the Church (a pro-Catholic history, not the usual anti-Catholic fantasy) and I was surprised at how the Church favored the monarchy over the reformist/liberal governments that sprung up in the 1800s. THe author seemed very pro-monarchy as well, with the Church being the giver of power by way of God.