Christian theocracy

I have found it sickening and humorous that people fear Christians more than they fear the Islamists. A Christian's faith is used in decision making. Even "aggressive types" like me have learned patience and turning the other cheek. I have agreed to live by laws I don't necessarily agree with because it provides a certain amount of peace. However, I am now being looked upon as an enemy. The Communists and Socialists and any other practicer's of -ism's cover up their own advances with the threat of Theocracy.

I agree with your analysis in the second para. People are all for something until they don't get what they want. This is why I have become quite the cynic of my fellow man.

Good post

Thank you James.

The idea of a distinction between state and church is a deeply embedded, fundamental religious commitment of the Western Christian tradition. Augustine's concept of the City of God was not invented by him: it is a basic function of the Christian belief that the king of all men is ascended to the right hand of God and reigns from heaven.

The very idea of "secularity" is a Christian concept. The state should be subject to the King, but it is not a primary instrument by which his rule is evidenced and explained, as is the church and the Christian family. The state, even if Christian, is destructive, not redemptive: although ordained by God, it is the world of men's institutions, and is only "of the age" (secular).

"Secularism", in contrast, is the modern notion that there are arenas of life where religion has no relevance and no authority. This very idea is an aggressive denial of the Christian faith.

I think that these critics know the difference between secularism and secularity. But they pretend that the two are identical. They sound the alarm either ignorantly or deceitfully, that if secularism is abandoned the only alternative is some sort of Christian shari'a - which they know full well doesn't exist.

Secularity is a long Christian tradition, by which the institutions of men gradually learn a just patience with sin, through trial and tragic error.

Secularism is a fantasy indulged by men weary of the slow process of history. It is an impossible institution, an establishment of the fantastic religion of human autonomy, and to the extent that it has ever wielded the reigns of government it has a perfect record of horror.

"reigns of government" => "reins of government"