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Originally Posted by mindfulcoug
Speaking of Theocracy ..
Mark Lilla is professor of the humanities at Columbia University who believes the only thing we need to do to understand the people who are still pursuing the age-old quest to bring the whole of human life under God’s authority,Is interpret the language of" political theology "— yet that is what we find hardest to do.
in this artcile he sophisticatedly has surveyed two major idealogies which has been watering securalrism and theocracy....interesting article!
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If you mix God and government, your religion is inevitably corrupted. There is no such thing as a non-corrupt government, and it's difficult enough for a highly organized religion to avoid corruption without mixing church and state.