(March 24, 2015 at 11:22 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:(February 20, 2015 at 8:40 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: And this, I think, justifies an off-hand remark about the U.S. being a theocracy. That and the fact that many religionists want to put their religious beliefs into law and to have the government advertise their religion on public property. Also, one can look at our money, all of which has "In God We Trust" on it. That isn't a proper thing for a secular government at all.
OED Wrote:theocracy
Syllabification: the·oc·ra·cy
Pronunciation: /THēˈäkrəsē/
Definition of theocracy in English:
noun (plural theocracies)
1A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/def.../theocracy
We certainly have a more religious population than the EU. That doesn't make us a theocracy.
First, you have omitted the part to which I am referring in your partial quote of my post. Anyone interested in what I was saying will need to go back to my post, rather than just read what you have quoted.
Do you imagine that all off-hand remarks are intended to be literally exact? To borrow a phrase from the great director Werner Herzog, it gives the ecstatic truth, but not the accountant's truth.
Get yourself, or anyone else, elected President of the United States, who openly claims to be an atheist, and I will gladly admit that I am wrong and that the other poster was wrong. If you regard that as a ridiculous implausibility, then you are admitting that I am right.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
