As I see it, opposition to theocracy and advocacy of a non-theistic worldview are two separate goals. |
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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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Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy. |
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It would have been entirely possible for them to annul the constitution and implement a 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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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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As long as an unelected theocracy doesn't emerge, the US will be relatively happy to declare victory and leave. |
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The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is majoritarian supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy. |
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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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It is an instrument, a timely means towards a long-term aim: the installation of a medieval theocracy. |
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Requiring actual, rather than perceived, personality change would turn a corporation into a theocracy. |
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In a theocracy, the social good may emphasize the inculcation of a particular religious belief or adherence. |
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The point is that in an authoritarian theocracy, monopolization of religious truth is the basis of power. |
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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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It speaks more urgently to those still living under slavery, or theocracy, or dictatorship. |
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Religious puritans, who once saw Hamas as an Islamist partner, say it has forsaken the chance to build a theocracy. |
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It increasingly seems to me that the best way to understand this country is as a theocracy. |
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It never succumbed to the dream of Manes who had enveloped the whole world in his project of a universal theocracy. |
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Only in a theocracy are secular concepts necessarily identical to religious concepts. |
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The father is the priest, the patriarch is the pontiff: there is no theocracy. |
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It took until 1979 for the birth under the imam Khomeini of the second theocracy, Shiite this time. |
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He challenged the very core of the Iranian theocracy and demanded respect for basic human rights. |
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This has archival value as a kind of samizdat text and the film itself is arguably of note as an intended critique of theocracy, of sharia and the suppression of women. |
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All the signs lead one to believe that elections will lead to a theocracy. |
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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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Even setting it's off-putting theocracy aiside, Shas veers hard right on a range of issues. |
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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 Iranian theocracy decides how the Iranian people must dress, what they are allowed to read, watch or listen to by imposing suppressive measure with religion as the justifying pretext. |
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I am no admirer of the traditional theocracy in the old pre-1951 Tibet, which temporarily managed, in practice, to defy the authority of a China that was for a long time ravaged by war. |
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This stands in contrast to theocracy, government with deity as its highest authority. |
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Iran's theocracy is being projected as a trans-national imamate of the Safawi order. |
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One of the largest migrations in American history occurred in the 1840s as the Latter Day Saints left the Midwest to build a theocracy in Utah. |
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As someone said, what was happening was a revolution for democracy, against autocracy, led by theocracy, made possible by xerocracy. |
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Nor, for that matter, is the Iranian theocracy, Hamas, or Hizbullah. |
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It appears to have been a theocracy with the elite inhabiting the hillsides and the rest of the population on flatter lands below. |
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Third, the secularism of the Azeri model gives the lie to the millenarian pretensions of Iran's theocracy. |
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In the last 50 years, however, it has gained renewed prominence by virtue of a number of developments, including its coming to the forefront as an energy superpower and as a revolutionary theocracy. |
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We remain resolute in reaffirming the danger of theocracy of any kind, and equally of extreme secularism, which slowly destroys the core values of society in individuals and in politics. |
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Perhaps because he sensed the time was not ripe, he may have preferred the strategy of leaving to his successors the problem of merging the two structures and thereby creating a more perfect theocracy. |
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The reality is that this so-called republic is a theocracy ruled by Shia clerics who have imposed their own brand of religious interpretation that is heavy-handed, fundamentalist and intolerable. |
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The Byzantine Empire was a theocracy, said to be ruled by God working through the Emperor. |
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I believe our task is to encourage the democratic forces, civil society and the many women and students who feel that, in the struggle between theocracy and democracy, it is possible for democracy to prevail. |
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His many critics said Morsi had authoritarian leanings and that his removal was essential to prevent Egypt from eventually turning into an autocratic theocracy. |
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Finally, does Nigeria have a secular, democratic regime or a theocracy? |
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Ja'fari Shi'ism is the sect of Iran's theocracy and of the majority in Iraq's population. |
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No, Mitt, we are not a monarchy, theocracy or totalitarian government. |
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A state with an official religion, while not secular, is not necessarily a theocracy, a country whose rulers have both secular and spiritual authority. |
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Historians have debated whether or not he turned Zurich into a theocracy. |
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Isn't this an epochal struggle between modernity and theocracy? |
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Historians debate the extent to which Geneva was a theocracy. |
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The natural inclination of man is to seek freedom and happiness, and freedom necessarily threatens a rigid theocracy committed to a conformist doctrine. |
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Examples of governments include monarchy, Communist state, military dictatorship, theocracy, and liberal democracy, the last of which is considered dominant today. |
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