Re: Theocracy unimaginable?
I think Haiman is probably right that it's difficult to imagine a formal theocracy emerging in the United States.
However, it is far from impossible to imagine a religiously controlled state, one which adorns itself in the trappings of religion and promotes a specific religion over all the rest and religion in general over non-religion. It's not hard to imagine a society in which threats and thuggery await any who dare to question religious orthodoxy or condemn its excesses. It's not hard to imagine a nation in which professions of religious piety are demanded of politicians, and those who refuse to make them need not apply, in the overwhelming majority of cases. It's not at all difficult to imagine a society in which -- on far too many issues -- the virtues of faith are extolled and the value of reason abandoned.
That's the America I live in today, and I don't find it at all difficult to imagine. I find it disturbing and potentially dangerous.
George
http://www.godlessinamerica.com
"Godlessness is not about denying the existence of nonsensical beings. It is the starting point for living life without them."
Godless in America by George A. Ricker
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