I'm currently reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and I read this quote yesterday. I found it interesting, so I thought I would share it with you to see what you think. Lewis has been talking about how eternal life changes our priorities, as the things of this world are short-lived when compared with living forever.
...Immortality makes this other difference, which, by the by, has a connection with the difference between totalitarianism and democracy. If individuals live only seventy years, then a state, or a nation, or a civilization, which may last for a thousand years, is more important than an individual. But if Christianity is true, then the individual is not only more important but incomparably more important, for he is everlasting and the life of a state or a civilization, compared with his, is only a moment.
Here is one more reason why Christianity and democracy (or a republic) go hand-in-hand. In democracies and republics, people are free to be what they want to be (for the most part), whereas in totalitarian governments and most other religions they are oppressed. What do you think?
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I really want to read this, but I can never make myself start. Democracies that do not go hand-in-hand with Christianity crumble. There is one reason we need to regularly pray for our country.
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