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Would theocracy work?

Started by FreethinkingSceptic, May 15, 2025, 02:33:29 AM

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FreethinkingSceptic

Assuming it wasn't oppressive, such as toward women's rights. As an example, the Vatican is technically a theocracy, but they aren't stoning anyone to my knowledge.

Mr.Obvious

Yeah, but i also don't think there are many non-believers in that  micro-state :p

Look, i think it all depends on what you mean with 'work'.
Ancirnt egyptians saw their leaders as deities. And while i'd rather live in my current democracy than then and there, there is no denying their empire was vast and long. 
"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

ferdmonger

'Think my way or don't think at all' just isn't going to cut it for me. 

Unbeliever

Theocracy wouldn't work at all for me.
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Gawdzilla Sama

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Quote from: FreethinkingSceptic on May 15, 2025, 02:33:29 AMAssuming it wasn't oppressive, such as toward women's rights. As an example, the Vatican is technically a theocracy, but they aren't stoning anyone to my knowledge.
Would you support a government run by people who believe in leprechauns and take orders from them?
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Blackleaf

If only we'd tried this theocracy thing before. I'm sure dictatorship would work too, as long as the dictator wasn't violent, genuinely cared about his people, and put competent people in positions of power.
"Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound."
--Fulke Greville--