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 personally don't think so. Without common morals and values to rally behind, it's almost impossible to unite a nation. That's why things have gotten so bad. People are now several generations out of any kind of church or religion, and their morals have drifted so far they don't even see things like abortion, homosexuality, or lack of freedom as wrong anymore.
Most people aren't smart enough to decide right and wrong on their own, and the government is most certainly not going to have the right answer for them.
Benjamin Franklin once said that "Only virtuous people are capable of freedom". Where are the masses going to find virtue, if not through religion and God? The government? Pop culture? The mainstream media?
Religion is essential to a free country, and without it I don't think America, or any other country for that matter, stands a chance.