Where would you rather live?

[Rev. Rye]

Theocratic = you must believe in god
Atheocratic = you must not believe in god

Trick question. The answer is neither.
Both are the result of the state telling me what my religious views are supposed to be and both can only be the result of the state having much more power over its population than a government should rightly have.

I'd rather live in a theocratic state that made it illegal to discriminate (similarly to modern civil rights movements) against a person's religion than an atheist state that forces everyone to have a particular set (or lack) of religious views or lack thereof.

Assuming, however, that I MUST choose between one or the other, I suppose I'd rather live in Atheocratic state because at least then I may not run into issues with the state in this regard, but to me it's like choosing one horrible dictatorship over the other.

YES! YES! YES! As interesting as it would be to live in a place where nobody believed in God, keeping it voluntary helps to ensure that atheists, by not believing, are merely following their own nose, and not the ass of another lemming.