> If every action a government takes is based off of the religious beliefs of a particular group, that isn’t really a democracy anymore.
If that group is the majority, then yes it is. I'm not sure you grasp what a democracy is. What you're almost getting at is the fact that democracy is not infallible. Terrible things can be done democratically.
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> If every action a government takes is based off of the religious beliefs of a particular group, that isn’t really a democracy anymore.
If that group is the majority, then yes it is. I'm not sure you grasp what a democracy is. What you're almost getting at is the fact that democracy is not infallible. Terrible things can be done democratically.