Harvard Prof: Democracy Doesn’t Work Without Religion

Harvard Prof: Democracy Doesn’t Work Without Religion
‘If you take away religion, you can’t hire enough police.’
 June 10, 2016

John Adams once said that the U.S. Constitution “was made only for a moral and religious people.”

He seems to have an ally in Harvard professor Clay Christensen, the scholar behind disruptive innovation theory.

Christensen, a Rhodes Scholar and the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the college’s business school, appeared in a video that is picking up steam on Youtube.

The clip recounts a conversation the professor had with a Marxist economist from China. Christensen asked the Fulbright Scholar if anything had surprised him during his visit to the states.

This was the response he received, as told by Christensen:

I had no idea how critical religion is to the functioning of democracy.

The reason why democracy works, is not because the government was designed to oversee what everybody does. Rather, democracy works because most people most of the time voluntary choose to obey the law.

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