Democracy unmoored from Christianity

Matteo has a powerful excerpt from Mark Shea about what happens when American democracy loses its Christian roots:

[Democracy] is not sacred and it's not eternal. It works just so long as you have a Christian or post-Christian culture that still holds by custom and convention what it no longer holds by creed: namely, things like the doctrine of original sin, natural law and the fear of God. As long as a culture has such things, even in lingering form, democracy functions as a restraining valve on original sin by keeping power from being concentrated in the hands of too few.

It's a thought-provoking post. Read the rest here.