Sentences with phrase «in a theocracy where»

Gee, good thing we don't live in a theocracy where the Bible governs us!

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If we lived in a theocracy, where every debate would be settled by edicts from the Bishop of Washington, this wouldn't be a problem.

There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all human affairs.

Also, just FYI, this country (meaning the US, which I assume is where you live) is not a theocracy, which means that the laws of this country (including the laws regarding abortion) should not be based on any one religion (or holy book) in particular.

In order to convince the confused and alienated masses, we must be able to demonstrate that Catholic social thought treads the middle path between theocracy — the ambition of strict Islamist ideology — where the spiritual authorities simply subsume the powers of the State, and the atheist secularist agenda, which eventually leads to the State assuming God - like powers, yet without the compassion and respect for human freedom that is characteristic of the true God of Love.

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.

In their theocracy they confine the remaining fertile females to camps where they are forced to be baby breeders.

They are stuck in a chauvinistic religious theocracy where anyone having s e x without the chance of getting pregnant is interrupting God's plan, though they don't realize that they are saying that their God must be weak and is easily foiled by a few chemicals or a thin piece of latex.

Yet the great majority of people in the world live under regimes that are either constitutional theocracies — where religion is formally enshrined in the state — or where religious affiliation is a pillar of collective political identity.

The theocracies found in Iran and Saudi Arabia, where the clerics play a major role in government (or have the final say on any government action in the case of Iran), tend to be the exception, rather than the rule.

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.