Does the Quran support Theocracy?

[Leonardo17]

1) John 18:36 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not of this world [nor does it have its origin in this world]. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would be fighting [hard] to keep Me from being handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this world.”
 
“The expectation that the jewish people had was that the royal class was going to come back. The savior was going to be someone sent by the jewish god to save Israel.”
 
- Which is why they murdered Jesus instead of trying to understand his teachings. Which is why they are stuck where they are stuck right now
 
“Besides, in ancient cultures, there was likely a tight integration between the king and the high priest and at times, they were the same person playing the role of king and mouthpiece of the gods.”
 
I see spirituality as a dynamic phenomenon that has to adapt and be reshaped accordingly with the reality of whatever time were are living in. If you look around you can see that there are things that worked perfectly for the generation before you that are totally passé for the people who are 18 year old or so today.
 
So in that perspective. In 1250 BC (and this is an approximation) Jews were made into a nation of priests and they were “chosen” in some way because their religion was the only monotheistic religion in that time.
 
Than if we go as far as the Bronze Age (old or middle Kingdom Egypt) for instance. A God-King wasn’t that bad. Pharaoh was not a Kim-Yong-Un or anything like that. First: he was not above the law. Second: He was seen as the incarnation of Horus and is duty was to make the rule of Maat (the principle of Justice) rule upon the two lands. And yes, I am ready to give up all forms of “election based system” to have something like that instead. But again, those days are gone.
 
We did discuss that back in the days when I had Cultural Anthropology classes. I think it was Claude Levis Straus who said that each culture has its own way of perceiving the very fabric of reality. So that was then and this is now.

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On integration
 
- There are similar verses in the Koran too. From 630 to roughly the middle of the 19th century that was something called Islamic Law. And when it first came it was a legal system that was more modern and effective than the Justinian Law (the only other complete legal system at the time).
 
Than it became obsolete as well. With stuff like the need for 2 female witnesses for each male witness etc. In the late 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was still using this legal system for Muslims and Westernized legal systems for strangers and minorities. And in 1923 we had to leave it all together. + What Arab countries are using are Western-Style legal systems with some arrangements that are inspired from the Old Islamic System. And that’s what Western Legal systems are as well. Medieval Legal systems that were based on biblical teachings gradually became modernized with a more rational and practical approach to legal matters.
 
So the only way to do what you are saying today is to start living like the Amish and completely isolating ourselves from the realities of the 21st century. SO what you say is true, but it doesn’t work in our time anymore. And the Koran is asking many times “Don’t you ever use your reason? Don’t you ever think about the reality of the situation you are in right now?”.
 
2) No I was trying to say that Political-Islam has its roots in Christianity (which is an older religion / therefore a spiritual teaching that was subjected to more misinterpretation by scholars etc.). It was the Emperor Constantine who first unified the Church and the State with is ideology of “One God one Emperor).
+ The headscarf has also its roots in Christianity:
 
“every wife[c] who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. 6 For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. 7 For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. 9 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 10 That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head”
Corinthians 11:2-16
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=ESV
 
But we are talking history here. I am talking about practical issues here and now. As a theist I see God as an inner reality (something like “the Force” in George Lucas movies). And there is a path (meaning sustained effort) to walk in order to get there. And that path is a solitary path because it involves changing yourself and evolving into something “better” (like going to the Gym on a regular basis). So you can have like-minded friends / yes you can have teachers / Gurus. But the path is still a solitary path because you and you only is the one who is going to get there.
 
So this is completely unrelated to how the mundane things are being done. Yet, a religious / spiritual person can and should (according to me) be involved in political issues as a responsible citizen trying to make things shift for the better. (Like Dr. King for instance).
 
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Well, I don’t think we can see religious texts as historical accounts. Even in the Story of Joan of Arc for instance, people are speculating on what parts of the story actually happened and which parts of it where invented (because people loved this saintly character so the church had to romanticize some of the things we know today were half-truths or complete decorations of the original story).
 
For spiritual people (like myself) it is the symbolics that matters.
 
Ex: The Koran says that Jesus simply walked away after The Last Supper. The man who sold him to the Romans was crucified instead.
 
Hindus even have him travel to India and continue spreading his teachings there. (Yaggadish Vassudev said it. I don’t know )
 
But For Christians there is a deep meaning when Jesus said “Be with me in my darkest hour” during the Last supper. And then he is crucified. Than he is resurrected.
 
Just like the Story of the Exodus. Jews were slaves (like the crucifixion), than they escape and wander in the desert for 40 years (like the 3 days during which Jesus was dead) and than they get to the Promised Land (like the resurrection).
 
To you all of this is probably some blah blah blah, to me it’s a symbolic narrative on us being a save to the ego (the crucifixion), on us dying to the reality of the Ego (the three days before the resurrection) and then our freedom from our Ego self and our life identified with our higher self (the resurrection).
 
And these are all universal spiritual themes. You can spot them in Taoism, you can spot them in Egyptian mythology too.
 

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So to me what matters in terms of religion is my personal relation with God (basically). And I want politics to work correctly (just like I want the economy to work correctly, or the environment to be clean and the legal system to be just). So I am not “above” earthly issues. But theocracy is not today’s reality. Today we have systems that are more adapted to the current reality. Older legal / political systems are simply obsolete. Just like medical approaches that doctors had 50 years ago that have been abandoned today.
 
There is no spiritual approach that can exclude the usage of reason. The French philosopher René Descartes (who was a deist in the philosophical sense) describes reason as the Signature of God (in a world that was written in a mathematical language)