At 12:17 AM 11/26/02 -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 08:57 PM 11/24/2002 -0600 Ronald Blankenship wrote: >> >[1] Just rebutting your 'beyond ludicrous' without claiming that >massacring >> >the heathen/infidel/non-believer is the normal pattern of theocracies. >> >> But isn't correlating religion and theocracy something of a sterotype as >> well? I think that only a small minority of the religious in the world >> today advocate theocracy. > >Define "theocracy." > >Frex, Christians believe that at some point in the future, Jesus Christ will >return to Earth as its ruler.Well, if you define "theocracy" to include the above, then you simply have created the new problem of defining the word that distinguishes the viewpoint of desiring an immediate and earthly theocracy from an ecclesiastical theocracy.
I'm not necessarily proposing such a definition, just using it to show that we cannot really answer the question without agreeing upon a definition of "theocracy."
--Ronn! :)
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