I like what John Armstrong has to say:
At root, democratic voting reflects a radical Christian attitude. In the
moral sphere Christianity took the breathtaking leap of saying that everyone has
a soul and every single soul is of equal value in the eyes of God – the soul of
the shirker is as precious to God as the soul of the hard worker. The soul of
the peasant weights the same in the divine balance as that of the king.
And this is the beautiful moral idea at the heart of modern democracy. It
never looks at a person and says you are not worthy of voting. It says, instead:
whatever you are like (almost), the vote belongs to you.
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