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Your list of current 'Non judeo-christian democracies'
India
Taiwan
Japan
Bosnia
Djibouti
Qatar
Sri Lanka
Turkey

Your own source lists Quatar as a TRADITIONAL MONARCHY.

The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977. A peace accord in 1994 ended a three-year uprising by Afars rebels. Hardly an example of "sustained self-government". And what self-government they had was likely a result of their experience with France.

Bosnia is NOT an example of sustained self governemnt, even if it is half orthodox Christian. It is a UN created and sustained unnatural act.

Tawain has only been around since 1950, and has endured one party rule until three years ago.

Sri Lanka was granted independence by the Brits in about 1950. Despite the advantage of being a colony of a great government, it has been locked in an ethnic civil war ever since.

Turkey has a defacto oligarchy (the military) that overturns decisions when the voters 'decide wrong'. They have been around 70 years. Let's see how they are doing in seven more, if the Islamacists that won the last election continue to get their way.

Japan and India are the only two half-decent examples on your list. They would be a lot more impressive if both had not inherited their goverments less than 60 years ago from the Christian nations that ruled them. Japan is already a basketcase as government-business cronyism has destroyed their once powerful economy.

The idea that you have these absurd examples to counter Great Britain, France, Italy, Israel, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, the USA, Brazil, etc... shows how wildly wrong you are.

>Your own source lists Quatar as a TRADITIONAL MONARCHY.

i'm generous. i like throwing bones ;-)

>And what self-government they had was likely a result of their experience with France.

of course. fits nicely with your presumption.

>Tawain has only been around since 1950, and has endured one party rule until three years ago.

50 years of democracy. the people have decided.

>Sri Lanka was granted independence by the Brits in about 1950. Despite the advantage of being a colony of a great government, it has been locked in an ethnic civil war ever since.

that's another 50 years of democracy... keep up the research.

>Turkey has a defacto oligarchy (the military) that overturns decisions when the voters 'decide wrong'. They have been around 70 years. Let's see how they are doing in seven more, if the Islamacists that won the last election continue to get their way.

seems to be working out ok for them.

>Japan and India are the only two half-decent examples on your list. They would be a lot more impressive if both had not inherited their goverments less than 60 years ago from the Christian nations that ruled them. Japan is already a basketcase as government-business cronyism has destroyed their once powerful economy.

speaking of government-business cronyism and economies...

>The idea that you have these absurd examples to counter Great Britain, France, Italy, Israel, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, the USA, Brazil, etc... shows how wildly wrong you are.

and how many of the above mentioned countries where monarchies and for how long before becoming 'democracies'?
religion alone is not the reason or answer for governance.

and what about those ancient greeks who first thought of the mountian which we sit so high upon?

cheers.

anka