Ancient Greece and Rome both had a small elite exploiting the masses, and both states practiced slavery. The Bible endorses the institution of slavery as God's

Ancient Greece and Rome both had a small elite exploiting the masses, and both states practiced slavery. The Bible endorses the institution of slavery as God's natural order numerous times in both the Old and New Testament. Europe held the greatest slaveowning imperialist powers the world has ever known - and monarchies to boot. Also there is no such thing as "European culture" or "Western culture"[0] per se, that's a modern retrofiction meant to lend credence to white nationalist ideology, much less any credibility in the claim that such is the sole originator and inheritor of the concept of democratic government. India had its own democratic ideals[0], as did Africa[2], and America's own democracy is derived in part from that of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy[3]. Also... since you're implying (as everyone who makes this argument does) that Islam is "simply not compatible with democracy," the cultures of the Islamic world have been influenced by ancient Greek and Christian philosophy since Islam began[4,5]. That's why European culture(s) had to recover much of the knowledge they lost after the Dark Ages from Muslim sources. So your statement disproves itself even by its own ethnocentric standard. [0]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civili... [1]https://thediplomat.com/2023/03/is-india-the-mother-of-democracies/ https://thediplomat.com/2023/03/is-india-the-mother-of-democ... [2]https://trueafrica.co/article/why-democracy-is-just-as-african-as-it-is-european/ https://trueafrica.co/article/why-democracy-is-just-as-afric... [3]https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/09/the-haudenosaunee-confederacy-and-the-constitution/ https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/09/the-haudenosaunee-confeder... [4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_influences_on_the_Islamic_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_influences_on_the_Is... [5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_contributions_to_the_Islamic_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_contributions_to_the_Isl...