(August 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm)Scarface Wrote: For the purpose of this question...
Theocratic = you must believe in god
Atheocratic = you must not believe in god
I know theocratic doesn't have that meaning (or does it?), and I'm not sure atheocratic is even a word, but if they did mean the above, my question is :
Would you rather live in a theocratic or an atheocratic state?
Given that these are the only two choices, atheocratic without question. I can't imagine anything worse than the first option. As another mentioned, the qualification "must" is little troubling, heavy-handed and says that I have to disbelieve regardless of whether there is anything to believe in or not, but since there most likely is not, this doesn't seem to be a problem.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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