Communism, socialism, imperialism, egalitarianism and democracy are some of the different systems of rule and social order that mankind has witnessed throughout the ages. All have their flaws and their shortcomings but to some extent provide a degree of stability to society and allow for progress. The one system of rule that is different from most of those mentioned above is a theocracy, because while communism or democracy may be based on man made rules and logic, theocracy relies strictly on religious teachings and thus the rules and principles that it is based on cannot be questioned by society on the basis of logic. The problem occurs when a society’s beliefs are not uniform, and this is usually the case since societies are made up of people and people are as different as the five fingers on your hand. Most people are fairly passionate about their beliefs, as someone once said “Ideas are like children, everybody loves their own.”. Every individual is unique and different in his own way and thus every individual’s beliefs may vary. The idea of organized religion is counter to this argument. Organized religion seeks to make a society’s beliefs uniform, and this is the case in almost all religions. Even though many religions teach tolerance for other peoples beliefs, the idea of propagating and spreading the “true” message is present in almost all religions and thus in itself preaches religious uniformity in society.
But what happens when, say in a theocracy, a religious code is imposed as law on an entire society or an entire nation. The flaw behind the idea of a functioning theocracy becomes evident in cases like
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