An American Theocracy

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Today's Topic: An American Theocracy

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Have you given thought to what a Christian theocracy in America would be like? The laws of the Bible governing our lives? Why would anyone want our country to be ruled by such cruelty? By laws that subjugate and punish non-believers and use division as a control device?

Consider the following verses:

"When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. And when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you."

Deuteronomy 20:10-14 ESV   

However, under the same edict, the cities of inheritance fare far worst.

"But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, that may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God."

Deuteronomy 20:16-18 ESV

Without hesitation, most Christians will tell you that Jesus loves you. That, when challenged by the Pharisees, Jesus proclaimed, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," is the second great commandment. And illustrated his point with the parable of the Good Samaritan. Unfortunately, however, the love displayed by today's Christians does not extend to all. Transgender persons, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, other religions, and many others don't receive their love. But aren't they people too? And if it is, as Christians claim, weren't they also created by God?

What will happen to these people if America becomes a theocracy? What will Christians then decide will be the final solution to their question?

Will we have a repeat of the genocides committed during World War II? 

What do you think?

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