If it's good enough for Humpty Dumpty, it's good enough for you. But just be aware that the rest of us use theocracy to mean rule by priests.I define theocracy as rule by a god. — Waya
The god who tried to hide his errors by drowning everyone except the family of a blindly obedient old man? Who demanded obedience even to the point of sacrificing a son? Who permits tsetse fly, thelazia gulosa, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the Holocaust?Humans are far too corrupted to act in place of God, — Waya
Which amongst us knows what god wants? Are you putting up your hand as his representative? See the definition of theocracy above.so they are not really accurate in demonstrating what God wants. — Waya
Same goes for True Scotsmen...True capitalism has never existed except in theory... — Waya
More Humpty Dumpty....being that it is the complete absence of governmental restrictions on trade. — Waya
Come on, then... show us your proof.So until they can prove the existence and authority of their god, then they don't serve any god, but man. — Waya
How are they "His errors" if human beings have free will?The god who tried to hide his errors by drowning everyone except the family of a blindly obedient old man? — Banno
Yeah, the problem of evil has been dealt with so many times already. You can head to the sources which deal with it.Who demanded obedience even to the point of sacrificing a son? Who permits tsetse fly, thelazia gulosa, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the Holocaust? — Banno
If it's good enough for Humpty Dumpty, it's good enough for you. But just be aware that the rest of us use theocracy to mean rule by priests. — Banno
The god who tried to hide his errors by drowning everyone except the family of a blindly obedient old man? Who demanded obedience even to the point of sacrificing a son? Who permits tsetse fly, thelazia gulosa, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the Holocaust? — Banno
Which amongst us knows what god wants? Are you putting up your hand as his representative? See the definition of theocracy above — Banno
Come on, then... show us your proof. — Banno
Because humanity used its free will in order to build a corrupt society, where abomination reigned in the social, moral, and religious spheres. The children born in that environment would have become corrupted, and the only way to save Creation was to restart it.How does free will excuse mass murder? — Banno
The way we can truly know what God wants is by reading the Scripture, not by interpreting things any which way we please. — Waya
And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain. — Quran 4:157
The Right To Free Speech is the Right To Lie
The Right To Bear Arms is the Right To Kill
The Right To Freedom is the Right To Oppress Others
The Right To Property is the Right To Theft
The Right To Freedom of Worship is the Right To Idolatry — Agustino
The Decalogue has no positive content but is merely negative. — Agustino
Take the right to free speech for instance. This right sets the truth and the lie on equal footing. It gives one authority to lie and be protected for lying - indeed, lying itself becomes a virtue, as the necessary result of the exertion of one's inalienable rights. — Agustino
the only way to save Creation was to restart it. — Agustino
Most of those are fairy tales...Scriptures...? :o Good luck with that, here's a list of maybe 50 of them. — jorndoe
The Bible alone has tediously long lists of problems. But, hey, ambiguities and inconsistencies do have a sort of strength to them. When one verse is inconvenient, just find another, or interpret in whatever presently convenient way. Which has happened. — jorndoe
Adam, Eve, and Jesus don't figure in the Vedas. Can't have been that important I guess. — jorndoe
Past theocracies has indeed been run by clergy. Deities neither evident nor necessary in the first place, just humans. If some such deity wants something in particular, then it should be a walk in the park to let everyone in on that. Meanwhile I'll do the talking on the one really true deity's behalf. Good with you? — jorndoe
That's like rule by Santa. Do you have a realistic political theory to put forward for consideration? — Sapientia
How does that work? God presumably set up human nature. Why make it corruptible? Yeah, all the stories of free will. A get-out-of-jail-free card for the Good Lord.
All of which take too much faith for my critical mind. — Banno
It's admirable that Catholics don't take Genesis literally. Its a mishmash of earlier tales. — frank
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