Christian Democracy

"Whenever the general interest or any particular class suffers, or is threatened with harm, which can in no other way be met or prevented, the public authority must step in to deal with it."

File:LeoXIII.png Pope Leo XIII

Christian Democracy is an economically File:CLeft.png centre-left to File:Cright.png centre-right (largely depending on his opposition), moderately authoritarian and culturally centre-left to right-wing ideology, born from the attempt to apply File:Christy.png Christianity to File:Liberal Democracy.png Liberal Democracy.

Christian Democracy's beliefs largely vary from country to country, and unlike his File:Catheo.png father he isn't necessarily Catholic. What usually stays consistent is the belief that the state that works within a democratic framework should enforce traditional values of the church.

History

Christian Democracy can be traced back to the philosophical views of Thomas Aquinas and his thoughts on Christian tradition. According to Aquinas, human rights are based on natural law and are defined as things that humans would need to survive. For example, food is a natural right because without it a human cannot function.

Christian Democracy began to gain more prominence after the French Revolution where French Republicanism and the Catholic Church were hostile towards one another. The Catholic Church was initially against liberalism, capitalism, and democracy, as they saw them as destructive towards the traditional family lifestyle, promoting selfishness, and allowing permissive and self-indulgent behavior to thrive.

During the latter half of the 19th century, there were many Catholic political movements which encouraged the Catholic Church to become more involved in modern politics. Many of these movements were united in their opposition to liberal secularism, civil marriage, public education, and separation of church and state. These groups were not entirely against democracy however as they saw democracy as being a politically expedient tool rather than being the best political system. Similar movements were being founded in Protestant countries by more conservative Protestants in reaction to secularization.

After World War II, many Protestant and Catholic political activists helped rebuild Western Europe and established democracy in the war-torn continent. Christian Democracy was favored by many because it was seen as a politically neutral and unifying movement separate from destructive Fascism or chaotic Communism. Christian Democracy was particularly successful in West Germany, where many had come to detest Adolf Hitler's regime for its authoritarianism and promotion of paganism (by numerous factions).

Christian Democracy has been embraced by many Catholics in Europe and Latin America as well as by some Protestant and Orthodox Christians. While some Christian Democrat parties have become more secular in recent years, many still support intermediary organizations that can operate between the state and the individual. It is common for Christian Democrat parties to support church-operated schools, hospitals, charities and social insurance funds, usually having payroll taxes or social welfare funding these institutions. They may also support their own labor unions that are organized in their own Christian trade unions separate from their own socialist counterparts.

Beliefs

W.I.P

Variants

File:ChristSocdem.png Christian Social Democracy

Christian Social Democracy, also called “Christianomics”, is a form of Christian Democracy that is center-left in its economics like Social Democracy, culturally center-right, and civically moderate. It differs itself from center-right neoliberalism that is often practiced by this ideology with its support for economic distributionism (depends, not always), a mixed/social market economy, and a welfare state justified under the teachings of Christian theology.

File:USASolidarity.png American Solidarianism

American Solidarianism, formerly known as the Christian Democratic Party, is an economically center-left to left-wing, culturally right political party in the United States. It's motto is "Common Good, Common Ground, Common Sense".

The American Solidarity Party has been characterized as socially conservative while supporting fiscally progressive economic policies. The ASP encourages social development along the lines of subsidiarity and sphere sovereignty, with a stated emphasis on "the importance of strong families, local communities, and voluntary associations". It favors fiscally progressive policies and a social market economy with a distributist character and providing a social safety net program.

The American Solidarity Party largely adheres to the ideology of Christian democracy, which has been influenced by Catholic social teaching, Neo-Calvinist theology and the social teachings espoused by other traditions of Christianity in various parts of the world. As such, the ASP looks to the Christian democratic movements in Europe and the Americas.

Socially, the party opposes pornography and prostitution, euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, same-sex marriage, and other things that are deemed to be detrimental to the basis of the sanctity of human life. It views family as being central to society. On foreign matters, it is non-interventionist, favoring peaceful diplomacy as a guiding principle. It supports fair-trade, foreign aid, and opposing violent military action. Economically, the ASP supports a universal healthcare system, as well as an economy containing widespread distribution of productive property, in particular increased worker ownership and management of their production.

File:CDU Party.png Christian Democratic Unionism

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Banner of the CDU

Christian Democratic Unionism, clipped with the CDU, is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the center-right in the German politics. It is culturally and economically center-right, statist, and diplomatically globalist.

File:Gremialismo.png Gremialismo

File:Gremialismo flag.svg

Flag of Gremialismo

Gremialismo, or Guildism, is a religious, conservative, and social ideology based on the social doctrine of the Church, File:Necon.png neoconservatism, File:Anticommunism.png anti-communism and File:ChristNat.png Catholic nationalism that calls for the File:Apolit.png depoliticization of intermediate bodies, being against which political parties or political ideas enter civil society.

In Chile, guildism was the doctrinal support of the conservative movement, born in the second half of the 1960s, which led the opposition to the university reform promoted by the centrist groups like DCU and JCU.

It was founded in 1967 as a university movement within the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile - the Trade Union Movement of the Catholic University of Chile (MGUC) - by the File:Conlib.png conservative liberal intellectual, Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz, in opposition to the university reform that was brewing in said house of studies. Guzmán led the resistance to the occupation of the central house by reformist groups from the center and in turn, tried to take over the university to reverse the impending triumph of the reformists. Although it failed, as a result of these events the union movement came into existence.

It soon became a real mass movement of the bourgeoisie, but also with a strong trade union component among the miners and transporters, against the government of File:Allende.png Salvador Allende in 1972, which would have had a strong role in delivering a popular base of consensus for the coup of the military junta, led by Captain General File:Pinochet-hat.png Augusto Pinochet in 1973. Guzmán was the ideologue of the Chilean constitution of 1980.

In 1983 Guzmán moved to more liberal and conservative positions, but stayed close to Pinochet's government, founded the Independent Democratic Union and was its leader until he was assassinated by the communist guerrilla in 1991.

Its four principles are:

• It recognizes the human being, possessing an inviolable dignity and a transcendent destiny. Both its being and its end are superior to that of any society of a temporal order. Humans are capable of grouping together to be able to fulfill theselves as individuals. Consequently, the State must be at the service of the human person and not the other way around.
• Every human institution has its own specific purpose. Each human grouping can be objectively determined, without the need to resort to any political ideology.
• By definition, every society is capable of achieving its own objective and objective by itself: "social autonomies". Go freely to your own specific end.
• Both ideologies and political parties have to place their action at the level of the leadership of the State.

File:Bielan.png The Republicans

Partia Republikańska (eng. Republican Party) also known as Republicans (eng, The Republicans) was File:ModCon.png conservative party in Poland.

In 2021 the party was founded as reactivation of the File:Conlib.png "Republicans" Association. It was created as splinter from File:Agreement.png Agreement after faction of that party, led by File:Gowin.png Jarosław Gowin, left File:ZP.png United Right coalition. Among guests of File:Bielan.png Republican Party's founding congress was File:Kaczysmf.png Jarosław Kaczyński. Few party members ran from File:PiS.png Law and Justice lists in 2023 parliamentary election. In December Repubblican Party was merged into File:PiS.png PiS party.

The party described itself as adhering to File:ModCon.png "modern conservatism". It also called the government to support Poles living in the former Eastern Bloc. Republican Party was File:Econlib.png economically libera though supportive of File:Welf.png welfare program for families. In foreign policy the party was File:Atlanticism.png atlanticist and File:SoftEuroscept.png moderately critical of the European Union.

Personality

Christian Democracy, like his File:Catheo.png father, is a devout Christian, though he is also heavily in favor of liberal democracy. While he is Catholic in his original German and Italian forms, his sect of Christianity depends heavily on which party he is representing. He tends to have liberal to moderately conservative social views, and while he is heavily opposed to all forms of communism, he is usually opposed to uninhibited capitalism, often favoring a more moderate form of File:Distributist.png distributism.

How to Draw

File:Xdem flag.svg

Flag of Christian Democracy

1. Draw a ball
2. Fill it with Yellowish-Orange
3. Draw an Orange Cross on it
4. Draw the eyes and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Yellowish-Orange	#FCC52B	rgb(252, 197, 43)
	Orange	#FC8922	rgb(252, 137, 34)

Relationships

The Crew

• File:European Federalism.png European Federalism - The EU was one of our greatest post-war achievements.
• File:Necon.png Neoconservatism - We often overlap as we both hate Communism and Jihadism, believing that they should be fought at all costs.
• File:Distributist.png Distributism - My brother who is an advocate for the diffusion of wealth. We've both learned a great deal from each other!
• File:ChristSocdem.png Christian Social Democracy - My economically left son, still better than your progressive Mom.
• File:Patcon.png Paternalistic Conservatism - My more moderately religious brethren and close friend.
• File:Conservative.png Conservatism - I share his social views, though his economics can be a bit wonky.
• File:Libconserv3.png Liberal Conservatism - These days, we're mostly the same. Well, in Europe, at least.
• File:Soccap.png Social Capitalism - I will always cherish the European post-war economic miracle of the 1950s. We've both done a good job back then.
• File:Orlib.png Ordo-Liberalism - God bless you for the German economic miracle. Also, you made him File:CDU Party.png what he is now.
• File:Confess.png Confessionalism - Christian Values are a central part of our government.
• File:Theodemocracy.png Theodemocracy - My very Conservative counterpart in Utah Deseret.
• File:Tradcon.png Classical Conservatism & File:Onenatcon.png One-Nation Conservatism - British friends.

Tolerable

• File:Neoliberal-icon.png Neoliberalism - Vote stealer. We sometimes agree on economics, but you should accept a robust welfare state.
• File:Lib.png Liberalism - While your underlying government system is generally the right one, your social system favors the individual at the expense of the community, and we can't have that in place.
• Social Democracy - Vote stealer again. While your underlying government system is generally in the right place, your social system favors the community at the expense of the individual and we can't have that, either.
• File:Zio.png Zionism - Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East. Now some of my modern followers hates you for some reason.
• File:WelfChauvin.png Welfare Chauvinism - He's a Conservative too, but a bit too Nationalistic, and honestly kind of racist. Go ask File:ChristFash.png that weirdo instead.
• File:Christsoc.png Christian Socialism - We must help the poor in our policy, although I'm not sure if abolishing wage labor is necessarily the right way to do it.
• File:Christy.png Christian Theocracy, File:Catheo.png Catholic Theocracy, File:Orth.png Orthodox Theocracy, File:StateOO.png State Oriental Orthodoxy & File:ProtTheo.png Protestant Theocracy - I understand that it is normal to have one's religion influence policy, yet I am quite wary of imposing one's religion onto the population. Does Jesus not have the sole authority?
• File:Hcon.png Homoconservatism - Don't be too flamboyant and I'll tolerate you. And especially remove the "T".
• File:Flang.png Falangism - I admire your devotion to Christ, but you should get along with the times.
• File:LiberationTheo.png Liberation Theology - I like your drive, but stop that revolution thing is ridiculous. What you're doing in Nicaragua is horrific.
• File:Rpop.png Right-Wing Populism - My rival in Germany.
• File:Plcn2.png Paleoconservatism - Let's just say you are more culturally defined than neocon, but some of you, like Greene, are authoritarian weirdos who I doubt are truly Christian. No wonder Pence has no love for them.
• File:Trumpism.png Trumpism - A blend of the guy above & File:Necon.png him, I'm glad you started to move more to The Christian Right when you started running but some of your behavior is sinful, I prefer Pence myself. Also, why didn't you handshake Merkel???
• File:Orban.png Orbanism - And Hungarian version of the above. I thought that you would turn Hungary into a Christian democracy. The Hungarian Model looked based at the start. But you turned the File:KDNP.png KDNP into a puppet and you became authoritarian, my File:EPP.png European variant kicked you out and File:TISZA.png he left your party does frighten me.
• File:Islamic Democracy.png Islamic Democracy - We shall coexist in the belief of God, and Democracy! _{But, come on, Jesus is totally God's son.}
• File:Heart-Integralism.png Integralism - I understand your disdain for the fallacies of both the left and the right, but do you realize that we simply cannot return to the old order anymore? Besides, having liberty to a certain degree is actually good.
  • File:Heart-Integralism.png - Liberalism is a Sin, why do you declaw the power we had and play by the rules of the World? Why do you accept the demise of Christianity and work as its pawn? We will not let the spirit of the world have its victory!
• File:Persondignity.png Person Dignity Theory - You were honestly good since you were against the communists, embraced Catholicism and a social market economy. But you are not democratic at all. And you also went too far against the Buddhists. Which was the reason you ultimately fell.

Find God

• File:Satan.png Satanic Theocracy - Heretic that should burn.
• File:Auton.png Autonomism - A psychopath who poisoned the minds of an entire generation.
• File:Insan2.png Insurrectionary Anarchism - He's even worse, he wants to burn churches and destroy our faith!
• Marxism–Leninism - Anti-Christianity and anti-Democracy! Also, cringe economics. Probably the vilest and most disgusting ideology ever! Please get over 1948, De Gasperi won fair and square.
• File:Nazi.png Nazism - Anti-Christian and anti-Democratic racist monster. You are just as bad as . That’s why I completely banned you from Germany.
• File:Nazbol.png National Bolshevism - NO!
• File:Esofash.png Esoteric Fascism - ...Wait, I retract my words on File:Nazi.png them both , you are the worst ideology ever! Anti-Christian, anti-Democratic, deranged racist xenophobe!
• File:Positive Christianity.png Positive Christianity - What is this madness? And why the heck did AfD and the rest of the Eurosceptics accuse Merkel of being this? Ignore that Kurt Kiesinger was an ex-NSDAP member. Also we both like Kanye West.
• File:Odal.png Odalism - Another xenophobic, anti-Christian maniac. You remind me a lot of the guy above.
• File:SecSat.png Secular Satanism - I understand you want religious freedom, but isn't this a ridiculous way of going about it?
• File:Allende.png Allendism - ¡Y eso que se llama Salvador!
• File:Libertarian.png Libertarianism - What is this disgusting green burning plant?
• File:Obj.png Objectivism - Is an atheist who supports selfishness and materialism.
• File:Darwinist.png Social Darwinism - This... abomination with zero empathy! I hope this so-called "natural selection" works against you!
• File:Jaruzelski-2.png Jaruzelskism - Communist scum.
• File:Honecker.png Honeckerism - Bye bye DDR. Ignore that I still gave you refuge in Chile under Aylwin in your last breathing momment's.
• File:ZSL.png ZSL, File:PolState.png ZOMO, File:Strato-Antifurry.png Armia Ludowa and File:Gero.png ORMO - Jaruzelski's puppets.
• File:Annil.png Anarcho-Nihilism - You may be not pagan, you still oppose state and religion in violent way.
• File:ChristFash.png Christian Fascism - Even if you care about the faith, you are too hateful and dictatorial for me. Ignore that some prominent CDU and DC members used to hang out with the fascists.
• File:Altr.png Alt-Right - You are just File:ChristFash.png him but worse.

Gallery

Portraits

• Portrait by Konlord 44
  Portrait by Konlord 44
• Legacy icon
  Legacy icon

Alternative designs

• CDU by  Cheebow8
  CDU by File:Cball-France-Beret.png Cheebow8 
• Alternate CDU by  Cheebow8
  Alternate CDU by File:Cball-France-Beret.png Cheebow8 
• Gremialismo
  Gremialismo
• Gremialismo
  Gremialismo
• Christian Social Democracy, by Evenosky
  Christian Social Democracy, by Evenosky
• Flag of Christian Progressivism
  Flag of Christian Progressivism

Comics and Artwork

• u/Kirbly11 Source
  u/Kirbly11 Source
• u/OrbitalBuzzsaw Source
  u/OrbitalBuzzsaw Source
• By u/Dr_Occo_Nobi
  By u/Dr_Occo_Nobi

Further Information

For overlapping political theory see: File:Catheo.png Catholic Theocracy, File:Christy.png Christian Theocracy, File:Distributist.pngDistributism, File:Long.png Longism, File:Orlib.png Ordo-Liberalism

Literature

• Rerum Novarum, or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour by Pope Leo XIII
• Quadragesimo Anno by Pope Pius XI
• Populorum Progressio by Pope Paul VI
• Centesimus Annus by Pope Saint John Paul II
• The Book of Mormon

File:Wikipedia.png Wikipedia

• File:WikiCdem.png Christian democracy
• File:CathSocial.png Catholic social teaching
• File:Wikipedia.png List of Christian democratic parties

Parties

• File:Cball-Austria.png Austrian People's Party File:ÖVP.png
• File:Cball-Belgium.png Christian Democratic and Flemish File:Cball-Flanders.png
• File:Cball-Belgium.png Humanist Democratic Centre File:Cball-Wallonia.png
• File:Cball-Croatia.png Croatian Democratic Union File:HDZ-icon.png
• File:Cball-Czechia.png KDU-ČSL
• File:Cball-Germany.png Christian Democratic Union of Germany File:CDU Party.png
  • File:Cball-Bavaria.png Christian Social Union in Bavaria File:CSU-Party.png
• File:Cball-Ireland.png Fianna Fáil File:FiannaFail.png
• File:Cball-Netherlands.png Christian Democratic Appeal File:CDA.png
• File:Cball-Netherlands.png New Social Contract File:NSC.png
• American Solidarity Party File:USASolidarity.png
• File:Cball-Chile.png Christian Democratic Party File:Christiandemocracy chile.png
• File:CBall-Mexico.png National Action Party File:MexicoPAN.png
• File:Cball-Peru.png Christian People's Party
• File:Cball-Ecuador.png Social Christian Party
• File:Cball-Hungary.png Everybody's Hungary Movement File:MMM.png
• File:Cball-South Africa.png African Christian Democratic Party
• File:Cball-ElSalvador.png Christian Democratic Party
• File:Cball-Sweden.png Christian Democrats File:SwedenKD.png
• File:Cball-Norway.png Christian Democratic Party File:NorwayKrF.png
• Us Moderates
• File:Cball-Spain.png People's Party File:SpaPP.png

Online Communities

• r/ChristianDemocrat

External Links

• Christian Democratic Union website (German)
• American Solidarity Party website