text: all the Abrahamic religions, dependent on an indispensable Monotheism, are at their cores, incompatible with liberal democracy...it's a top down system, which any reading of the various religious texts would easily clarify. Which is why, during their heydays, all three were easily aligned with top down political and social  systems...kings, and Popes and emperors  and sheikhs, and princes and emirs...the religions lend themselves to acceptance of authoritative rule
  
  The difference between Christianity , Judaism and Islam however is that Islam was never confronted with pressure to change, secularize and adapt to a new set of ideals through either a Renaissance or Enlightenment....the age of competitive Islamic scientific and cultural advancement generally stalled after ~ the 1200s...one might ask, where are the Islamic world's post golden age philosophers and scientists who have challenged the very central tenets of the religion and forced it to confront its ideological constructs.....