Does the Quran support Theocracy?

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Religious artwork on walls?
People do it because they want a record of themselves.
It doesn’t mean that they have a written language.

Some primitive humans drew inside caves, they drew elephants, dear, giraffes, hippopotamus. It gives us an idea of what their lives were like.
The painter probably was thinking “What did my ancestors do? What were they up to? Am I the first who is going to record life on these walls?”

Some cultures built monuments and drawings and leave them outside.
Some cultures placed value in having a building where you go and pray. So, might as well put some decoration on the walls.

Over time, they made them more elaborate. Gigantic churches with a lot of decoration. Muslims did the same thing.
It was for their god so it made sense to spend a lot of time on that and less time on their own homes.
Naturally, they are going to make some objects of god, copper, bronze with a lot of fancy details.
The artists who made such things probably worked for very cheap and basically gave it to the church for free.

And you also get artists who write the holy scripts by hand with a lot of artwork.
Eventually, you get the printing press and they make books with fancy looking covers for their Bible.

1. People always want more. Bigger churches, bigger pyramids. Fancier artwork. Make the god happier and happier.
Judaism and its flavor of religions are transactional religions.

2. Cultures copy each other. It is possible that the pyramids of Egypt inspired some europeans to build excessively big churches and arabs did the same for their Islam.

The aim here is pedagogical more than artistic beauty. The people were illiterate.
 

I don’t think so.

I see myself as having a better approach.
 

OK. What was your approach again?