Sentences with phrase «as in a theocracy»

Hope that never becomes a detriment to survival, such as in a theocracy.

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Dawkins, who is widely regarded as the most respected figure in atheism, is lending his voice to this event because he says freedom for atheists is «constantly under threat from people who would like to turn this country into some sort of a theocracy.»

The National Day of Prayer is an embarrassment to America and makes us look as intellectually barbaric as fervent middle eastern theocracies that in many ways haven't progressed much past the last millennium.

As soon as Judges consider God's law above this country's laws, that is when we will know we are living in a theocracAs soon as Judges consider God's law above this country's laws, that is when we will know we are living in a theocracas Judges consider God's law above this country's laws, that is when we will know we are living in a theocracy.

As a born again Christian I wouldn't want to live in the theocracy of Iran, so why would I want to live in a theocracy here in the United States?

In fact, even the concept of a religious foundation for Statehood guarantees theocracy, and as such should revolt all truly free men, ESPECIALLY Americans.

... and as for atheists / agnostics commenting on religious matters, it is important since uncontrolled religion can lead to various levels of theocracy (e.g. Iran in the extreme case) which obviously would be detrimental to all of us.

When the holiness of the land (a divine proclamation) becomes the holiness of the state (a human creation) we all too easily move in the direction of theocracy veiled as statism (in which the state is the embodiment of divine will).

As a theocracy, the Levitical laws functioned much like the laws in a democracy.

Point being, fundamentalism in any religion is frightening, that is why people who sound as if they want a theocracy should be avoided like the plague.

In this view, since Israel was a theocracy, God, as the «Commander in Chief» sent Israel to war against her enemieIn this view, since Israel was a theocracy, God, as the «Commander in Chief» sent Israel to war against her enemiein Chief» sent Israel to war against her enemies.

There is also a practical benefit to Reno's ecumenism, in that anyone speaking of «Christian society» in this day and age invites being tarred with words like «theocracy» and «inquisition,» as if Christian society necessitated those forms.

If the Bible, as its theme, concerns the deliverance of humanity, and if the deliverer is God, personified by Jesus, consider the following: Contentious subjects in Jesus» time, as items of debate or discussion, typically had to do with adultery (a «capital offense» by Moses), paying taxes (which might be tough in a theocracy), and divorce.

It would take ignorance of that level to see a person living in a totalitarian theocracy following a not - state - sanctioned religion as a fanatic and not a victim.

The west will not be polarized against Islam, but in theocracies such as Iran which blaspheme it's true message.

This isn't a theocracy and no one is required to believe in god or your christ in order to qualify as a citizen.

Also, by your logic, almost ALL Americans and Israelis would be terrorists and extremists as well; most of them support blowing up little kids with drones, and the Republican party wants to create a medieval style, white - supremacist theocracy in the United States.

You're the typical Tea Fartie maniac who would do anything to spew out lies to create fear and hysteria, while you keep trying to create your white - only Evangelical theocracy in the Redneck belt with Rick Santorum as your «supreme leader.»

(There was even less hope of a restoration of the priestly theocracy either in an independent priestly state or under such loose supervision as the nation had enjoyed in the days of the Persians.

As I am using it, theocracy refers to the benevolent reign in the eschatological future when God will be all in all.

Islam, as practiced in theocracies, is the laughing stock of the civilized world, and rightly so.

Richard Posner, a judge of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a New York Times op - ed co-authored December 2 with Law Professor Eric Segall, takes Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to task for threatening America with a «majoritarian theocracy» because of his repeated dissents, since Lawrence v. Texas, against the expansion of homosexual «rights» as a matter of Constitutional solicitude.

Green was allowed to make the unopposed penultimate point suggesting that just as religious dictatorial fundamentalism and theocracy are causing «enormous violence» around the world hierarchical Churches believing in «one fundamental and absolute truth» are places where child abuse flourishes.

I would certainly not want to live in any theocracy, even a Christian one, as there would be bound to be interpretations that I would not agree with.

He is mixing politics with politics as is the case in theocracies a la Iranian.

What is truly a sin is people using their religion is to deny others their equal rights based on your religion as if you lived in a theocracy.

And as I look at the current turmoil in Iraq and remember my conversations with Muslim scholars, I have a better understanding of the popular appeal of theocracy in Muslim - majority countries that have been ruled by brutal and repressive secular rulers.

If you want all of these symbols and whatnot then you go to the Theocracy in the heart of Rome known as Vatican City.

The show makes it quite clear why the militant theocracy known as the «Sons of Jacob» comes about in the first place.

As we have seen in history, theocracies have been brutal as well as governments that espouse atheisAs we have seen in history, theocracies have been brutal as well as governments that espouse atheisas well as governments that espouse atheisas governments that espouse atheism.

He believed in restoring the country a Theocracy with him as it's king.

A pure theocracy, such as the prophets had envisioned and foretold, a state of affairs contemplated by Jesus himself and described in his prayer: «Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» — this was to take the place of «the present evil age.»

The thing is that you can interprete the Bible in many ways, and as Americans, we do not live in a theocracy.

Since the priests were the law givers in their theocracy this was a book of laws and traditions based on the Hebrew God's commands as deciphered or decided upon by Moses.

The brand of Christianity highlighted in this story is of particular concern to secularists becuase Focus on the Family / The Family Research Council are powerful political lobbies with the stated intention of establishing the US as a Christian theocracy.

He hates America and would rather see it as a christian theocracy but instead of saying that outright, he wants to blame the atheists from getting in the way of that.

But even if you could get every christian in the United States to agree that a Theocracy is a good thing, the decision on which religion gets to dominate would divide them as bitterly, and perhaps even more bitterly, than any policy issue to date including going back to the civil war.

(This assumes we're using theocracy in the broad sense in both cases, and not taking about strict rule by religious authorities, whereby only a few countries, such as Iran, qualify).

As Trump marks his first 100 days in office, Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale continues to attract a wealth of new readers and fans, many of whom draw parallels between the 1985 book's totalitarian theocracy, Gilead, and today's political climate.

A Theocracy is a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler, or in a higher sense, a form of government in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

By the by, I find His Holiness» comments strange in light of the fact that he was part of an institution of practically slave - owning feudal theocracy, where any notion of «law» as we know it had no place as far as I can tell.