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So... given that, via the 2nd commandment God demands there be no no freedom of religion, and given that no people are exempt from His law, shouldn't the Christian ideaology include no separation of church and state?
It's true that God says he's the only God, but you still cannot force people to follow Him. Take a look at stuff about Germany after the Reformation or Calvin's Geneva. By connecting church and state, your essentially forcing people to be Christians, which is a contradiction in terms, because you cannot force someone to believe something that they don't.
I lean more towards anabaptist political thought on some of these things though. I believe that Christians should be a visible community in the world and be promoting change in society by BEING the church instead of just going to church.
Besides, Christians are held to the same stardard of morality whether they live in a Theocratic, amoral or even anarchist society. We are called to obey the laws of the land so far as they do not contradict scripture, also even if the government legalizes something we don't agree with, we simply don't partcipate. Making something legal doesn't make it moral.
In a lot of ways the countries that are least friendly towards Christians principles are the countries in which the church is thriving the most. When church and state mix, it becomes very "comfortable" to be a Christian and the morality within the church tends to become much more lax. We stop BEING the church and start going to church.
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