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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSuppose the right wing actually did get their religious eutopia? America would be exactly like
the middle east.
Soon denominations would begin to vie for power. Each one would be calling the other one ungodly. Each one would be saying the other one was led by Satan. Women particularly would be sorry for having wanted that eutopia. Oh it would be much much worse than the Irish Catholic/Protestant war. Much worse. Crimes and punishments based on sinning . Wars over what 'sinning' means.
Religion has no place in government.
Unless one wants this country to end up like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
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blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)what's the difference, they want to force Christianity
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)still_one
(92,396 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)and God will be on everyone's side.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)Last edited Mon May 22, 2017, 01:24 AM - Edit history (1)
Medieval Europe had an all powerful religious government for over a thousand years.
It was also known as the Dark Ages - for a reason.
It lasted between the end of Roman authority in the West in the fifth century and the beginnings of the Reformation in the early sixteenth century.
The Spanish Inquisition itself lasted around 700 years, (which no one expected, of course.)
The history of Christian governments is pretty horrific.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It's about living your life according to certain rules. Even the fanatics of ISIS do not live by the Quran: Defectors have told that they are cherry-picking the parts they like, just like any other believer.
And the Sunni-Shia-conflict is actually was less relevant today than it was in the past. It's a simplification for the Cold War between sunni Saudi-Arabia and shia Iran, which is simply a geopolitical power-struggle. Religion is mainly pretext.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)same type thing. Religion is the vehicle driven to gain power. The right wing here is also cherry picking. It's been done again and again. In the end it's always about power and religious zealots are used as the vehicle. It's easy to inflame and manipulate a zealot. Zealots of different faiths have common threads. Televangelists here have had their own news programs that are completely manipulative. They have been feeding twisted news to the masses for years. They bought up more and more stations. They turned it into a big dollar business. They cut deals with politicians. This is why we have this right wing mess. This is why we now have zealots that want to wage war. Same type thing. For the longest time people just assume that nobody believes the Pat Robertsons on tv. Well, more do than one would think.