How To Use Theocracy In A Sentence
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Now my friend the parson is the outgrowth of the New England theocracy, about the simplest, purest, and least objectionable state of society that the world ever saw.
Oldtown Folks
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Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy.
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But the speech was most notable for the force with which Yeats pleaded that the Free State should not become a theocracy.
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Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy.
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When Aikenhead climbed the scaffold Scotland was not far off being a theocracy in everything but name.
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Putting God in the public square runs the risk of turning our democracy into a theocracy.
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They sought a home in a fresh wilderness, where they might be undisturbed by superior human authority; they had no doctrinarian notions of equality, nor of the inequality which is the only possible condition of liberty; the idea of toleration was not born in their age; they did not project a republic; they established a theocracy, a church which assumed all the functions of a state, recognizing one Supreme
Complete Essays
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It represented an extreme example of a theocracy - of a body politic organised essentially around religious principles.
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There is one group that wants to use democracy as an excuse for political payback and create a theocracy not a democracy.
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They are about "Theocracy" or getting whatever fossil they have designated the power to dictate to everybody whatever spew he wishes to pretend is the word of "god".
Rush ...Glen ....Sarah next?
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The Christian Right and their political minions advocate a total theocracy, plain and simple.
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After having been force-fed a steady diet of terrorist teriyaki in 2004, fearful Americans re-enthroned a delusional White House chef de cuisine who believes that he has a divine mandate to jam his recipe for theocracy down the nation's throat.
Food and Drink
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Who are the real traitors to western enlightenment values - those of us who find both totalitarianism and religious fundamentalism abominations or those who topple dictators to install theocracy?
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And Robert Putnam, it's interesting - again coming from a theocracy like Saudi Arabia, but nevertheless - well, not quite a theocracy, but the king is the protector of the two holy places.
The Role Of Religion In The Voting Booth
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All the signs lead one to believe that elections will lead to a theocracy (which I dread).
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Buddhism corrupted by Brahmic theocracy -- as Christianity by Mosaic rites, by papistic theology and sectarian piety -- has come to us as a morbid asceticism or worse, delighting in self-inflicted individual tortures and revelling in unthinkable contradictions.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
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The truth is that there is no accepted definition of Jewish, and shouting the term doesn't make it any clearer. accepted definition of Zionism: For the majority of settlers it means to insist on the eternal right of Jews for sovereignty over the greater land of Israel; and for some it means that Israel should be a Jewish theocracy.
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A closing chapter attempts to interpret a Christian theocracy in the context of a pluralistic culture.
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In essence, Scalia is saying that the secular democracy envisioned by the Founding Fathers should be a Christian theocracy as envisioned by a determined sect of fundamentalists.
Christians Should Fear a Christian Nation
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In Marxist terms, the Trots have preferred feudal theocracy to bourgeois democracy which - in non-Marxist terms - is disgraceful and stupid, as a few members of the far Left are starting to realise.
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Perhaps the real problem that the election outcome raised is that a significant number of voters expressed their discontent and mistrust in the theocracy by abstaining from casting their ballots.
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It was nice to be, in fact it was a revelation and a relief to be, in a theocracy where church and state was interconnected in such a fruitful way.
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With its inclination toward the secular affairs, Christianity developed an elaborate theory of theocracy.
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The earth will have a theocracy; being ruled by God will bring perfection into the earth.
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His book is particularly unsympathetic towards the Lhasa theocracy, which is not surprising since he chronicles the 1904 invasion of Tibet by the British.
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The truth is that there is no accepted definition of Jewish, and shouting the term doesn't make it any clearer. accepted definition of Zionism: For the majority of settlers it means to insist on the eternal right of Jews for sovereignty over the greater land of Israel; and for some it means that Israel should be a Jewish theocracy.
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The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is majoritarian supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy.
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Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you -- The burden of this faithful and uncompromising address was to show them, that though they had obtained the change of government they had so importunely desired, their conduct was highly displeasing to their heavenly King; nevertheless, if they remained faithful to Him and to the principles of the theocracy, they might be delivered from many of the evils to which the new state of things would expose them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Christ, a stranger to all religious practices, and breathing defiance against "sacerdotalism" and "theocracy".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The idea of theocracy of 'Power of King from God 'endowed the secular power with sanctitude and simultaneously the bondage which had never been given.
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Another thing there is the sacrificial law the dietary law the clothing law the judicial law. there are 613 commandents a theocracy to seperate the israelites from the pagans.
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In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country.
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The superior honorableness of agriculture, is shown, in that it was protected and supported by the fundamental law of the theocracy -- God indicating it as the chief prop of the government.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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As I see it, opposition to theocracy and advocacy of a non-theistic worldview are two separate goals.
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He also wants to abolish the separation of church and state and turn government into an ultraconservative theocracy where only members of his religion are allowed to rule.
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The theocracy needed a new form of prophetic gift: God-inspired (theopneustic) men must speak and act for God, the
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The implication is that the party supports replacing democracy with an Islamic theocracy.
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From rival tribes, the Tibetans were united in the sixth century; they were led by strong tribal leaders until the thirteenth century, when Mongol khans created a theocracy under their Buddhist spiritual advisors.
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Israel's perception of the Iranian threat, Mr. Parsi says, has long "resembled prophesy more than reality," impelling the Jewish state to frame its conflict with Iran's clerical regime "as one between the sole democracy in the Middle East and a theocracy that hated everything the West stood for.
It Takes Two to Engage
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Another thing there is the sacrificial law the dietary law the clothing law the judicial law . there are 613 commandents a theocracy to seperate the israelites from the pagans .
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Under the theocracy no such loose system was possible, for heresy might enter in three different ways; first, under the early law, "blasphemers" might form a congregation and from thence creep into the company; second, an established church might fall into error; third, an unsound minister might be chosen, who would debauch his flock by securing the admission of sectaries to the sacrament.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
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The superior honorableness of agriculture, is shown by the fact, that it was _protected and supported by the fundamental law_ of the theocracy -- God thus indicating it as the chief prop of the government, and putting upon it peculiar honor.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Tibet was a theocracy, ruled by incarnate Buddhas, and, in imitation of China, it had adopted a policy of almost complete exclusion.
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As if we lived in some kind of tinpot theocracy, Mr. MacAskill intoned that Megrahi would be judged by "a higher authority.
The Lockerbie Bomber and Scotland's Disgrace
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As long as an unelected theocracy doesn't emerge, the US will be relatively happy to declare victory and leave.
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It would have been entirely possible for them to annul the constitution and implement a theocracy.
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It represented an extreme example of a theocracy - of a body politic organised essentially around religious principles.
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All brought about by a strange claim to be a "Faith Based" Administration, the Republican version of Theocracy, where the Lord gives th OK to visit "shock and awe" on the land of Iraq and POTUS holds a chiliastic view of the world.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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I already thought of two descriptive names for this society: a technocratic theocracy, or a theocratic technocracy.
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First he debunks the criticism that the constitution establishes an Islamic theocracy.
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First, there are the Christian fundamentalists or "values voters" as it pleases them to call themselves, whose bedrock principles are theocracy, antifeminism, and homophobia.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Taking a stand as a theologian and spokesman of theocracy, Thomas Aquinas argued on some important socioeconomic issues.
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The superior honorableness of agriculture is shown, in that it was protected and supported by the fundamental law of the theocracy -- God indicating it as the chief prop of the government.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Rejecting theocracy, Althusius developed a non-sectarian, non-religious contractualist political theory of federations that prohibited state intervention even for purposes of promoting the right faith.
