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David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought
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The History of Western Europe and Orthodoxy
If one draws a line down the middle of Europe with orthodoxy, those nations seem to be much less democratic or democratic for shorter periods of time. I don't know if there's any causal relationship between the kind of Christianity because of course Western democratic institutions tended to go hand in hand with some degree of layering and secularization. It was simply the case that from after the Middle Ages, early modernity, Western Europe was the center of economic and political power in the Western world. So my suspicion is this is mostly historical accident"
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