The question is: can a political democracy EVER be rationally motivated in a culture where religion isn't guided by rational discourse?
Realistically, the political mind is a product of religious belief, more than the other way around.
Politics is the arena where people-conflicts duke it out but are seldom resolved because of conflicted religious consciences.
As long as the psychology of dominion prevails in religions, so it will in politics. Religion cannot in practice be separated out from politics.
The more churches wake up to realizing they need to reason together so they can believe together, the better the chance for political democracy to function more collaboratively in people interest - which speaks to the public interest urgency of inter-faith discussion/ collaboration - in short, for the effort of CHURCHES UNITED.
Arguably, we might conclude that psychologically religions are contributing to the third world reality by their disarray with each other. FAITH & REASON together!?