How many Christians imbue those values? Most of the devout Christians in the US are hateful and selfish bigots.
To be honest basically every devout Christian I know imbues those values, both in Italy as in The Netherlands.
But I think what’s going on here is interesting, because you kinda see a clear difference between North-Americans and Europeans here. To put it in context, you guys are in the midst of a election race where Christians probably are annoying maga people, influencing your opinion, while here that doesn’t exist.
But also from a historic context, unless you’re a Native American, your country is relatively young, so probably that historic feeling which we have here, lacks a bit.
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You might be Muslim based on these values, as well.
True and I recognise that in Muslim friends, but the discussion is about the church in relation to western society, which is logical given the ceremony and it being the dominant religion
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There are so many and there are many sources you can check for that. If we just talk about the division of the power as it was done in western democracy, it comes from understanding that humans have evil in their soul (mind, genetic or whatever) imply that we need to protect us from ourselves. That’s what is different from others dogmas which may also have division of powers but far from the angle modern democracy.
The Bible is the compilation of centuries of stories about good and bad values written by men. It doesn’t come from God or from 2000 years ago, that’s what helps to shape our western constitutions.
Where are you from?