Was watching the Timcast with Milo on and thought this point in particular deserved seperate discussion given not just recent but years of events.
The point Milo raised was that the ammendments in America can only work with a Christian society, the 2nd only works if you value life and the 1st only works in a society that regularly attends confession. He obviously has a bias but I want to expand that.
We can see that there's two aspects that is really damaging western society, constant attacks on Christianity and not really any other religion (Jew's get few but quickly slapped down by establishment) and a more individualistic view of the world.
For Democracy to work you need everyone to have a stake in it, everyone to share the same morality and everyone to want to improve their communities. On all fronts we've seen either a decrease or an abandonment of each of these values thanks to education policies, media and mass illegal immigration from conflicting cultures.
So the questions, can Democracy only exist in a fully Christian society, should the West no longer be a democracy and if so what system should take it's place, obviously not communism as no matter what that never works.
I say this as an anti-theist:
Mostly.
First of all, Democracy, as a concept is fundamentally flawed. The perfect form of Democracy is Fascism: people are the state and the state are the people. The stateis the intertemporal and ethical represtative and vangaurd of the people through time. That is perfect political representation. That is perfect Democracy. That is the Leftist utopia.
The US is a Liberal Federated Republic. That is the only way to secure the "blessings of liberty". Democracy is antithetical to individual liberty because it requires the collectivization of the people into the state as it's representative. Liberal Federated Republics are representative by happenstance from local power.
So, in what type of culture can Liberal Federated Republics exist? Basically... Exactly where we came from: 1600's free market, Anti Establishment Christianity, in a 2nd Great Awakening Protestant, English, pioneering culture.
Islam is antitheitcal to any Liberal value. Islam is antithetical to Liberty. They can't co-exist. Worse: the Sikh Empire proves that the Islam can only be rebuffed by something akin to a Liberal-leaning Marshall Federation. I'm Sikhs are Liberal, I'm saying the government they had was never going to be powerful enough to repel the Mugal Empire themselves, and so required mass rapid mobilizaiton, which required mass armamentation of the general public, and required the highest strata of government be limited in it's scope to ensure the loyalty of the lower stratas. We see something similar with Switzerland facing off against the Hapsburgs.
Catholicism can not co-exist with Liberalism either. The Founding Fathers were extremely concerned about this because the bureaucracy of the literal Cathedral, and the creation of an asserted ethical order from this international bureaucracy, meant that the Catholic Church would always seek to undermine and conquer individualist dissent from the proscribed international order they established. Social Justice as a concept wasn't even created by the Left, it's origins are in Catholicism itself.
And what of other religions? These other moral perspectives do not lend themselves well to cultural mechanisms of Liberal Federated Republics. Fundamentally, the basis of Americanism is to try and make sure a Cathedral doesn't form. The great American Experiment that the founders had as a question was: who really could be American as ideology? This is why they were concerned that germans, scotts, irish, blacks, and indians couldn't really be American because of their cultures not being able to integrate into Americanism.
However, as we've seen the absolute dominance of Americanism over the centuries, and the fact that even in their time these different ethnic groups did integrate into Americanism; it's clearly evident that any person can become American as part of our propositional nation, and loyal to our culture and ideology. HOWEVER, that integration requires the abandonment of nearly all other ideologies, moral systems, and older traditions. It its the demand of every propositional nation: the people can integrate. Any person can. But most cultures can not.
To be American, you must be fully individuated (not atomitized). You must have a pioneering and entrepreneurial spirit. You can not wait for God/Truth to be explained to you, you must have God/Truth reveal itself to you. You must demand the absolute respect for your property, as it is the work of your labor, not to be involuntarily taken or "shared". You must be the builder of your community.
This concept isn't something you can find in France, Germany, Russia, China, India, Peru, Portugal, Finnland, Moroco, or Yeman. In fact, you won't even find it in England anymore. It's a dream in England to have that place, that the English think exists in their hearts, but doesn't. It's the quintessential "Little England" that has long since disappears. The idea only exists in America now, and only to a degree because it is under serious threat.
That concept only lends itself well to Christianity as a religion, and only specific kinds of Christianity; and none of those kinds are Catholic or Anglican. They're not even Morman. It's a pioneer Christianity that has God/Truth reveal itself to you if you are prepared to listen, and then allows you to thrive when you understand God/Truth. This framework can not be achieved with Islam by any means.
So, can Americanism (Liberal Federated Republicanism) work with only Christianity? For the most part, yes, but it still requires everything else and most of Christianity to adopt American values first.