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Yes, just as state laws should adhere to federal laws. That doesn't mean that the federal government runs the states, nor does adherence to divine law mean that the Church runs the government.
That the government has it's own legislators and other officials.
Leviticus.
The state should not encourage idolatry.
What do you want to use it for?
Yes, just as state laws should adhere to federal laws. That doesn't mean that the federal government runs the states, nor does adherence to divine law mean that the Church runs the government.
I meant the effective difference, in terms of what we who have to live under those laws experience. As far as we are concerned, what is the effective difference if regardless of who is making those laws, they must conform with divine law?
I want to substitute my divine law for yours, law the US government must adhere to and enforce upon the population.
I don't suppose there would be much of one. Nevertheless the term "theocracy" is not correct.
1.) I don't suppose there would be much of one. Nevertheless the term "theocracy" is not correct.
2.)Human beings do not get their own divine laws.
If the product, legislation by divine law, is the rule and the result, then that's a theocracy. The minutiae of the process is irrelevant.
Legislation in accordance with divine law.
Right, that's a theocracy. Replacing the priesthood with a legislative body to disguise the process is mere deception.
If the product, legislation by divine law, is the rule and the result, then that's a theocracy. The minutiae of the process is irrelevant.
Human beings do not get their own divine laws.
Sure, they do, Human beings wrote the stories in the bible and other religious texts. You cannot prove YOUR religious text is divine and someone else's is not.
Nope. You and others like you are free to teach your children whatever nonsense and religious folklore you wish, but the rest of society is going to ensure that so long as you are unwilling or unable to teach them real knowledge as well, that they will learn it somewhere else. If some religious people don't approve, they are free to find other means of education for their children. But since you live in this society, you do have to help pay for the education, the real education of this society. You are free to leave anytime if you don't like that arrangement.
Defining sex as a marriage between a male and a female, the joining of opposite sexes, is a matter of common sense more than "divine law".
No it's not.
Yes I can.
No it's not.
Defining sex as a marriage between a male and a female, the joining of opposite sexes, is a matter of common sense more than "divine law".
"Common sense" is just another term for "opinion I think should be shared by everybody else."
What were they teaching your child that is so against your religion. Can you be specific? I mean 8 hours of brainwashing a day is a lot of information .
Some things are too obvious for people not to get. This is one of those things.
facts?Defining sex as a marriage between a male and a female, the joining of opposite sexes, is a matter of common sense more than "divine law".
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