Yeah Christianity never supported democracy in the past. For instance, the Catholic Church defended monarchy with a blind determination, as if it was the only political system which could be reconciled with the Gospels. And since we are constantly reminded by Christians on this forum how all Christian Denominations are the same we can say that Christianity is against the republic, democracy, and human rights.
From the very beginning of democratic revolutions Popes were against them. Like in the breve Quod aliquantum of March 1791 Pius VI condemned the idea that one cannot be discriminated because of his or her religion, and that anyone could think, say, and write what he or she wanted on the subject. The Pope wrote: “In the eyes of the Assembly, this monstrous law is based in the freedom and equality natural to the human being, yet can there be something more incomprehensible than setting such a licentious freedom and equality? This freedom […] which the National Assembly grants humans as an inalienable inborn right is incompatible with the law set by God the Creator. After all, as St. Augustine said, human society is nothing more than only a general contract to listen to kings whose power stems not from a social contract but from God.”
The view that democracy and human rights are incompatible with the principles of the Gospels was proclaimed unremittingly by all popes until the middle of the 20th century.
Take 1864 encyclical Quanta cura by Pius IX where he is censuring rationalism, freedom of the press, equality of religions before the law and freedom of conscience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_cura
Or during XX. century when they supported dictatorships like Franco's, Mussolini, Hitler.
From the very beginning of democratic revolutions Popes were against them. Like in the breve Quod aliquantum of March 1791 Pius VI condemned the idea that one cannot be discriminated because of his or her religion, and that anyone could think, say, and write what he or she wanted on the subject. The Pope wrote: “In the eyes of the Assembly, this monstrous law is based in the freedom and equality natural to the human being, yet can there be something more incomprehensible than setting such a licentious freedom and equality? This freedom […] which the National Assembly grants humans as an inalienable inborn right is incompatible with the law set by God the Creator. After all, as St. Augustine said, human society is nothing more than only a general contract to listen to kings whose power stems not from a social contract but from God.”
The view that democracy and human rights are incompatible with the principles of the Gospels was proclaimed unremittingly by all popes until the middle of the 20th century.
Take 1864 encyclical Quanta cura by Pius IX where he is censuring rationalism, freedom of the press, equality of religions before the law and freedom of conscience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_cura
Or during XX. century when they supported dictatorships like Franco's, Mussolini, Hitler.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
