Claim. Two providentially distinct democracies emerged in the late 18th century from the Cain- and Abel-type views of life: Cain-type democracy from the atheist-materialist Enlightenment, ignited by the French Revolution and maturing into Marxism-Leninism and the communist world; and Abel-type democracy from English Puritan resistance to absolutism and American religious-freedom settlement, born from sincere Christian striving and developing into today’s democratic world.
Elaboration. Per Part 2 Ch 6 §3.1: monarchic absolutism arose by Satan-preempted feudal-to-monarchic consolidation. Because Hebraism and Hellenism both opposed absolutism (the former demanding faith-freedom, the latter citizen-class progress), they worked in tandem to tear it down — establishing two parallel democracies.
Cain-type democracy: France at 1789 was in the grip of the Enlightenment, deviating into atheism and materialism. Citizens sought to overthrow absolutism and feudalism and establish freedom and equality for the Third Estate, producing the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Leading thinkers Diderot (1713-1784) and D’Alembert (1717-1783) were atheist-materialists. Despite freedom ideals, the course tended toward totalitarianism. Cain-type democracy blocked the spirit’s inclination toward God; it would later be systematized into Marxism in Germany and Leninism in Russia, forming the communist world.
Abel-type democracy: English and American democracies were different from origin. James I (r. 1603-1625) strengthened absolutism and the state church while persecuting Puritans, many of whom fled to Europe or America. Charles I (r. 1625-1649) was met with Scottish-Presbyterian rebellion (National Covenant 1640) and the Cromwell-led Puritan Revolution (1642). Charles II restored absolutism; James II declared himself Catholic. Protestant leaders invited William of Orange, who landed in 1688 to defend religious freedom; upon enthronement he approved the Declaration of Rights — the bloodless Glorious Revolution founding English constitutional monarchy. Persecuted Puritans founded America in 1776. The internal cause was religious freedom, not just political freedom.
Significance. Fulfills the “two forms of democracy” promise from dp-democracy-purpose-is-to-receive-messiah-by-will-of-the-people and directly answers the [critical] parking question on developmental-stages: democracy is the 4th post-monarchic stage, but it splits providentially into two trajectories with opposite endpoints (communism vs free world). The Anglo-American/French divergence becomes DP’s most testable specific-history identification.
See also. dp-providence-develops-society-through-clan-feudal-monarchic-stages · dp-reformation-and-renaissance-as-cain-abel-dispensation-of-separation