Reply #36: It seems you are interested in congratulating Christianity.

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I don't know whether you are talking about structure or policies, but there isn't anything in Christ's words that get you a US polity. Granted, a liberal democracy is more likely to provide for its citizenry and approach all sorts of ideals, christianity included, then a oriental despotism or Stalinist bureaucratic nightmare, but that's saying practically nothing at all===again.

By the way, if the basic freedoms of the Constitution are self evident, then why did our christian forebears neglect to apply them to slaves? It seems that mere christianity didn't supply a lot of the detail then, and it doesn't now.

There's a reason why our fat conservative preachers go to old testament diatribes when they want to bring morality into government. It is easier to pull a prohibition from two thousand years ago than figure out how Christians make a government out of the Beatitudes.