American Christian new member: my views

ProudSlave wrote: Caring Heart - You mentioned "Democracy"; "Freedom"; and "America" (U.S. I assume, not South or Central). You do realize that the United States is NOT A Democracy, right? It is a Constitutional Republic. A Democracy does NOT result in freedom, it results in mob rule. As soon as any particular group holds a majority, their will can be legally imposed on the minority. This is why the Constitution of our Republic contains what are referred as "negative rights" (a list of things that can NOT be done to the citizenry by the government, even if the majority thinks it is ok) Just wanted to clear that up :-)

Pretty much right: an unfettered democracy is mob rule with extra paperwork.
The quality of a democracy (or a constitutional republic with (some) democratic voting process) depends on the degree to which the electorate id educated and informed.
It also operates with the legal fiction that for this purpose all opinions are equally valid.
Which they are not, really.

"Democracy" is not a miracle word of liberty or perfection.

Having said that, compared to most if not all the other options going around, it's hardly worse.
For one thing it offers a route to changing authority and government without violence and bloodshed.

The compatibility between Islam and democratic processes is low to minimal, as it is anathema that the public should have a deciding vote for something which might be unIslamic.