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Also, even the US is not in danger of becoming a theocracy.
by hollerith 1y ago
Also, even the US is not in danger of becoming a theocracy.
- KerrAvon 1y ago[flagged]
- prewett 1y ago[flagged]
- wat10000 1y agoNever mind third in line, the dude who is currently President just put out a memorandum declaring "anti-Christianity" to be on the same level as "support for the overthrow of the United States Government."
- tomhow 1y agoWhen disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sofixa 1y agoI really wouldn't go this far, there is _way_ too much religion in US politics for proper separation of church and state. When elected politicians regularly quote religious documents in their reasoning for making decisions, agreeing and disagreeing with others, etc. you can't claim a theocracy isn't on the cards.
- hollerith 1y agoMaybe we have different definitions of theocracy. According to your definition, has there been a time in the past when the US was a theocracy?
- sofixa 1y agoNo, it has not. But you cannot deny that religion being a visible, daily, part of politics, and being very often quoted as justification for political, and even worse, judicial decisions, is closer to a theocracy than it is to separation of church and state.