2006-11-28 09:58:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
no...hell no...Bush's desire to set up a plutocratic theocracy was stopped Nov 7...thank God!
The paranoia hasn’t yet burned down to embers. The term theocrat has become a commonplace, employed by bomb-throwing columnists, otherwise-sensible reporters, and “centrist” Republicans such as Connecticut’s Christopher Shays, who recently complained that the GOP was becoming the “party of theocracy.” And now the specter of a looming Khomeini’ism has migrated into the realm of pop sociology, producing a spate of books with titles like The Baptizing of America, Kingdom Coming, Thy Kingdom Come—and, inevitably, American Theocracy, the Kevin Phillips jeremiad that shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list this spring.
Most of these books aspire to be anthropologies, guides for the perplexed that lead the innocent reader through what the subtitle of American Theocracy calls “the perils and politics of radical religion.” There isn’t perfect agreement on what to call the religious radicals in question: Everyone employs theocrat, but Kingdom Coming also proposes Christian nationalist, while The Baptizing of America favors the clunky Christocrat. Others have suggested Christianist, the better to link religious conservatives to Osama bin Laden—and of course there’s the ubiquitous theocon, suggesting a deadly mixture of Oliver Cromwell and Paul Wolfowitz.
2006-11-28 10:00:41 · answer #1 · answered by dstr 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
definitely not. Right now, one can follow whatever spiritual path one wishes, while in a Theocracy that would be very difficult, and probably impossible. Further, because of the beliefs of one such group now, we are 38th in the world in math and science. Each faith needs to be respected, and no faith should determine public policy, no matter how valid it may be. The ideas behind our system are what has allowed it to survive as long as it has, balancing all groups at the expense of none. To change that would cause the whole train to be derailed, and we would all lose our rights, including those of the One True Church!
2006-11-28 18:03:30 · answer #2 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO! What's made America so successful is its legal separation of church and state. Because religion is allowed to flourish and people are allowed to choose. Look at the other European countries that have established churches -- like the U.K. for example. How many people actually go to church? Not many. How strong are the churches? Not very. America, on the other hand, is one of the most religious western countries in the world. So disestablishment has had a net positive effect for religion here.
In addition, countries with established churches have much more violent strife with their minorities (i.e. Sunnis, Shia, and Kurd in Iraq; Muslim, Christian in Yugoslavia, etc.). So plurality has actually kept us out of "ethnic clensing" nastiness other places.
Would YOU want to live ina theocracy? Sure, if the religious government was your own! But not if it was yours!
2006-11-28 18:05:21 · answer #3 · answered by Perdendosi 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
UHH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! That’s sick, and completely anti-American. The thought makes my stomach sick. Theocracy is always evil. That’s one of the reasons this government was formed. Freedom of Religion. Imagine an all Protestant Government, all Catholic government, all Islamic Government…. In this country, it would be insane.
2006-11-28 18:33:32 · answer #4 · answered by Johnny L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theocracy is ALWAYS a bad thing. The belief in the afterlife is the root of almost all the evil in the world. (Greed is a very distant second in that race).
2006-11-28 18:09:33 · answer #5 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Besides being exactly what the founders fought to escape, expressly forbidden by the Constitution, and generally a bad idea, it would eventually lead to exactly the problems faced in the mid-east.
However, I see nothing wrong with adopting sound Biblical principles and natural law as a basis for our country's moral character --- and neither did our founders.
2006-11-28 18:06:38 · answer #6 · answered by ML 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. That was clear to the Founding Fathers.
2006-11-28 18:00:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If it was simply our Constitutional Rights. Gotta admit those founding fathers knew their stuff.
2006-11-28 18:00:45 · answer #8 · answered by wallsatlarge 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely not. This country was founded on the separation of church and state.
2006-11-28 18:04:27 · answer #9 · answered by notyou311 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. Render onto cesaer what is blah blah blah.
2006-11-28 18:00:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋