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You are interpreting religion as dogma instead of values. Christian values such as the Golden Rule are perfectly compatible with Democracy. Each recognizes the individual as having rights.
It's also important to acknowledge that Judeo-Christian values made an important contribution to the development of Western Democracies. If one traces the reformation of Christianity, which separated Church and State more firmly than in the past, one can see how the Enlightenment was able to take root. The Englightment was the philosophical impetus for our system of government.
IMO, we would be better off as a society getting back to our founding values instead of trying to eliminate them from history books.
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