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To: Protagoras
Theocracry, in the definition you kindly provided, means more or less what I said - ruled BY religious authority. A government with laws founded on traditional moral absolutes is NOT a theocracy. In my Webster's theocracy means:
"government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials regarded as divinely guided." This agrees with the "in my own words" definition I provided above.

If someone posits that governments should rule (i.e. enact and enforce legislation, IOW laws) that have NOTHING to do with moral absolutes as handed down by spiritual or religious tradition, where do the concepts of right and wrong come from?

Answer: they must come from the minds of men. A funny thing about the minds of men; the only commonality is that will always disagree. So the final word about what should be legal, illegal (IOW right and wrong) is whoever has the power at the moment. So your version is this: MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.

Totalitarianism.
76 posted on 11/26/2003 8:28:26 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
This agrees with the "in my own words" definition I provided above.

LOL,,good stuff. First you climb on to a high horse and scold me in a derisive manner for not using a real definition, and then when I provide one and it proves me correct, and you incorrect, you switch high horses and admit you never looked it up and that it means what you think it should so it fits your mistake. LOL

You should do stand up comedy.

And your bizzarro world of up is down and freedom is totalitarianism would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

81 posted on 11/28/2003 7:26:26 AM PST by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children)
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