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22 Dec 2015, 1:03 pm
What country do you live in? And is it a democracy; where the people's word is valued above all else? Or is it more of a theocracy; a country that is ruled by its local church despite the government's claims that is it a "democracy"?
Tell me all about it below 
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Edenthiel wrote:
Interesting question! I live in a country that is a republic, ruled by a representative democracy. But at some levels, each citizen gets to vote directly. Insofar as religion goes, my country is inconsistent. Our founding documents state that the government is prohibited from creating a state religion; therefore it cannot technically be a theocracy. However, our history is such that more than half of the populous is religious and so they vote in religious representatives and by extension, judges. Those lawmakers in turn grant some religions legal exemptions to the laws that apply to and are enforced against everyone else. And in my country there are regions that are in a very practical sense, ruled as much on theology as secular law - we even have entire political parties that campaign on how they will enforce their god's laws over those of the nation.
It's a weird place.
It's a weird place.
Interesting!
Some of the towns in my country were originally and historically built with the idea of a theocracy in mind (being ruled by Spain during the times of Christopher Columbus). One town even has the Mayor's hall and the Church facing each other at the center of town! I even herd that the mayor there went on to do a mass on that same church, which obviously suggest that the mayor was using religion as a means of gaining votes for the next election, despite my country's separation from the church itself. 
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Sweetleaf wrote:
The_Blonde_Alien wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
...though if the fundamentalist right gets their way it will become a christian theocracy.
What are you talking about exactly?
The religious right and its attempts at legislating religious morality.
Here's my response to that:
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