Do the Christians agitating for various forms of theocracy really understand what they are fighting for? Do they really understand how much harm and suffering is caused by theocracy -- and I mean any sort of theocracy, even relatively minor examples of it. History is unambiguous in what theocracies do to people and societies. That includes Christian theocracies, too.
Jockaira writes:
Dominionists fail to learn from history and other contemporaneous examples. All theocratic governments of the past (and the present) achieve their success at the expense of non-believers and the sacrifice of individual freedoms.
One only has to look at the excesses of Papal rule in Europe or the miseries of Moslem-majority countries today and in the past to know that theocracies have never worked in the real world. But theocrats live in a fantasy world where everything will be hunky-dory if everybody gets on board and shares the same belief (fantasy)...and if they won't share, then castigate them severely (or kill them) because God wants it that way!
Why do people with a supposedly functioning brain fail to see this very simple truth: religion has never been a workable alternative for human government?
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This is a very good question. It really shouldn't have anything to do with being a religious believer or being devout in one's religious beliefs -- after all, theocracies have been oppressive to devout believers as well. Simply being a believer or being very devout doesn't automatically cause a person to favor any sort of theocratic system. Or at least, it shouldn't. On the other hand, the less religious a person is, the less likely they are to favor any sort of theocracy. So there is a correlation... but why?
Why would anyone think that any sort of theocracy is even in their own best interests, never mind the best interests of anyone else or of society as a whole?
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