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To: RippyO

Theocrat "technically" means a government like that of Israel under the "judges" or under the priests and religious leaders of the Jews after the return from exile, or it could mean something like the extreme claims of the medieval popes, or a place like Zwingli's Zurich or Calvin's Geneva, or "the Puritan Oligarchy" of New England, or Utah under the Mormons. In each case, the relgious order is the dominate power, both spiritually or materially. Just look around you and say that the power and wealth of the "religious right" is comparable. It is as laughable as pretending that George Bush is the second coming of Oliver Cromwell.


14 posted on 08/28/2006 6:51:37 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS

Very well. What term would you use for the type of government advocated by what I deemed "theocrats"?


15 posted on 08/28/2006 7:03:30 PM PDT by RippyO
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