In a christian state you'd have the most extensive Jail system known to man.
The United States already has the most extensive jail system known to man.
How would you even prosecute adultery drunkards and cursers without an excessivly large police force, that becomes oppresive because it needs to track your every move to make sure you aren't doing bad things. You propose people reporting each other for crimes they see or hear about? If thats the case you've created an orwellian state where no one can trust another person and parents can't even trust their own children.
As the Christian right (what an oxymoron, IMHO not very Christian and hardly right) gains more power, the society becomes more Orwellian, as in domestic spying.
How is abuse of the system prevented in a theocratic system? What way is the theocratic system maintained? Do you have a state sponsored Internal Affairs? What occurs when that arm of the government becomes politicized?
Like the Supreme Court?
Also, the pseudo-Christian state that is promoted by those in power in the US requires continuous human sacrifice (in never-ending wars where there is no intention of winning or losing) in order to retain power through fear and appeals to patriotism. Maybe the US is moving towards a fundamentalist Aztec state.
This message has been edited by anglagard, 04-15-2006 06:40 PM
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