04-01-2016, 12:30 PM
(04-01-2016, 12:14 PM)Vlad Wrote: Of course, that's what I was getting at. Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion...means exatly that... there is to be no official religion, nothing more.
True we are not a Christian nation by mandate or decree, however it is not wrong to say we are Christian nation based on religious demographics...the vast majority of Americans identify as one Christian denomination or another ... like saying Pakistan is a Muslim nation, India a Hindu nation, Korea a Buddhist.
Saudi Arabia however is a theocracy... a Muslim nation by both decree and population. Their Constitution is the Koran. The laws of the land are in the Koran.
The Vatican and the Tibetan Government (which is in exile). The two remaining theocracies. Iran is a hybrid. Then there are a number of states with an official state religion (which there are debates as to whether that really makes it a theocracy).
Saudi Arabia would not be a theocracy in the narrow sense as they are a monarchy. If we were to say that their inclusion of Sharia into their laws made them a theocracy than we would have to say that any attempts to inject Mosaic laws/influence into our laws would make us one.
