"Depends which clerics you ask, and if you hold enough power over him to have him find whatever it is you are looking for, isn't it ?"
That's a doozy! Are you trying to tell me that clerics (and I include them all, of any religious persuasion,) represent the will of the people? As if they are their representatives? LOL!
Theocracy isn't Democratic. Clerics exist to ENFORCE!
"Are you trying to tell me that clerics (and I include them all, of any religious persuasion,) represent the will of the people?"
? Do you have some kind of point you're making ?
Do you seriously think that Bin Laden would simply bow to ANY cleric or imam? --- supposing there was one who was foolish enough to say what bin Laden does not want to hear ?
Obviously EVERY cleric derives his spiritual power from the will of the people - if enough people, or enough people of power do not agree with what the cleric says, he will not be in a position of spiritual supremacy for long.