06-15-2020, 03:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2020, 03:34 AM by Blazkovitz.)
(06-14-2020, 06:02 PM)Mikebert Wrote: What unites us is a shared political and legal tradition, built on English antecedents, but which has evolved independently for a quarter millennium. We are also a Western nation, as are all of the countries of the New World, who speak Western European languages and are ancestrally Western in religion/philosophy. For religion that means Roman Catholicism & its Protestant offshoots (not Orthodox). For philosophy that means some type of liberalism.
I always thought Orthodoxy and Catholicism are more like each other, than like Protestantism:
http://christianityinview.com/comparison.html
Puritanism was closer to Judaism than to Catholicism in its attitudes. Some Catholics I knew actually said that Puritanism is Judaism with pork!
Overall I always considered Russians a part of Western civilization, and this is how the Middle East views them too. But when it comes to politics, Russians are more resistant to democracy than Indonesia with its exotic heritage. Is this because of Stalin's purges, which unwittingly eliminated all people with genetic traits conducive to supporting democracy?
