What would a theocratic Christian country look like? Specially if it was inhabited by people of European descent? Like there's plenty of Muslim theocracies and Israel is kinda religious and Jewish but I have a hard time imagining what would a modern country where the population is actually Christian and where the Church decides the law would look like.
What would a theocratic Christian country look like? Specially if it was inhabited by people of European descent...
Gavin Powell
Tyler Clark
russia
Nathan Watson
Chase Morgan
Pic related
Aiden Perez
I said modern
Wyatt Cook
>What is Vatican City
Joseph Lopez
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Kevin Peterson
obligatory anti-protestant post
Juan Fisher
Angola just like middle ages
Andrew Powell
Maybe like the Vatican? Possibly Franco's Spain?
Dylan James
Tell me about Franco's Spain
Sebastian Long
Aren't we a theocracy? Lizzy is head of the Anglican Church.
Aiden Williams
Technically is the key word here
Cameron Cooper
This is not European, but it's one example.
The person on the left in this picture, Eshai Shimun (Jesse Simon) XXIII became hereditary 'temporal and spiritual' leader, i.e. theocrat, of the Church of the East at the age of twelve as as his two predecessors died in the WWI genocide of Ottoman-ruled and Qajar-ruled Christians, in the middle of engaging in diplomacy as theocrats, with over 100 bodyguards. They are not part of a larger communion of churches, but are sovereign.
Actually the Mar Shimun family lost true independence as a clannish Christian theocracy in the Zagros mountains after 1840, due to massacres by Bedr Khan.
Nevertheless, when Iraq became independent, around 1933, the 'Assyrians' of Simmele were massacred, and the British exiled Eshai Shimun from Iraq under suspicion that the Assyrians were attempting to restore their theocratic power.
In 1975, Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII was killed by a follower in his newer home in California, apparently after accusations of not pursuing his followers' interests and being too apolitical to restore Christian theocratic power in the Middle East.
For information on the period when they had theocratic power, prior to 1840 at the same time as the Papal States, see:
jelleverheij.net
tyareh.org
aina.org
Since then, there have been "Assyrian" and other militias in the Middle East, which are in practice "Christian militias" as the Assyrian ethnicity contrasts with its non-Christian neighbors, especially since the departure of Jews to Israel who also spoke their language. It is almost the only area where Jews and Christians spoke one language, and all other religious groups spoke another, within miles of each other. This is an interview with someone from those militias (I think):
youtube.com
You can see in link 2, WWI dynastic soldiers.
Henry Nguyen
Here is one of their forts. Also from link #2.
Jason Cook
Ireland under Dev was pretty close. Give PiS another ten years in power and Poland and that might be too.
Anthony Foster
Who's Dev?
Nathaniel Clark
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Jaxon Wilson
>What would a theocratic Christian country look like?
The United Kingdom is a theocracy.
Lucas Butler
Not a Christian one
Robert Baker
The United Kingdom's official state religion is Anglican Christianity. The head of the Anglican Church is also the head of state of the United Kingdom and in the British parliament the clergy has assigned seats.
The UK fulfills the definition of a theocracy.
William Sanders
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Brandon Anderson
Crackdown on degenerate behavior
Mandatory church
Head of religion (or high ranking member) is state leader
Landon Green
Sounds a bit like Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale
Ayden Harris
UK is a cucked country.
England under Charles II was the last true regime.
Levi Parker
No idea who or what that is.
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