OK Winterborn, slow down here... You're in religion , and I'm here to suggest, there was freedom out of Feudal Europe which is a development out of 400ad Roman gubernatorial Europe, so to speak. Did you know 20% are in that Noble class, with the 80% peasants, so the Absolute Empire and the Absolute King has checks and Nobles Council or House of Lords in Feudal Europe. Was Feudal Europe a Theocracy?! I mean the terminology, the Church Christened a King in Divine Right, the people were expected to know and Use Their Brains toward their servitude in the Lord as time progressed in the humanist renaissance or, rediscovery of knowledge over memorization. Opposed to this, Nationalism is actually what Broke many things early in 20th century Europe, the high regard of one's nation above other nations, and Nazis and others including America do not answer to any theocracy, we don't have a congress, a judiciary, an executive and a church branch and we're under careful checks and balances. Otherwise, you could look at Feudal Europe and there's the Clergy, the Nobles, and the Peasants, maybe Merchants.
hobelim is a full out troll, look I'm no certified anything where it comes to genesis, numbers Deuteronomy, ruth, kings, isaah, matthew, mark, luke john, paul, revelation, and so forth , but look, every single word he's saying isn't in a single bible version which , that's pretty funny troll, got to admit. There are a number of loyalties to discuss regarding how we read the Bible , a tradition of Clerical interpretation, another tradition of community interpretation, inside of community interpretation, a Tradition-based outlook, there's historical-critical views trying to say what the times and people would mean to us today, sort of thing. A Baptist preacher had a sermon about the Pita bread of the middle east I never thought of that our western church loaves, have you seen it, and it represents a vessel, or maybe a Scoop, the eucharist and communion and the wine and the bread is one of the hugest Mysteries really, that guy needs to shut up though, wine , the nations will sing Gods praises in the final Revelation 22 Heaven , your junk isn't anywhere.
I think its scarier to live in Abraham Lincoln's relativism society, and, 'we're all praying to the same God', is going to please go destroy the Catholic denomination first with that, not all the other ones, or has everybody heard of "Catholic"? Ya probably! Not destroying that one then? Japan cuts out being homosexual and all Asia has monogamous marriages now and "Christmas" with not maybe 1% Christians in Japan for example, so how annoying is American Power in the first place, think about that junk, and then, we try to redefine, since Emperor Constantine's not throwing the first stone for a prostitute with his marriage, she was a former Dancer of low station, and outlawing adultery in the Byzantine Empire, Empress Theodora in 300 AD, and writing the chalcedonian creed, Nicene and apostolic creeds and Trinitarian and Civilized belief to still dominate Europe today, we're working on the acceptance of all sorts of arrangements, Muslims have all Sorts of arrangements.
I have to look at the Tradition of it where, Jesus commanded his Disciples not to take up the sword, the clergy were then self-sacrificing diplomats and peace keepers though they Often demanded wars or asked for wholesale slaughters in their Name in Feudal times. There's all sorts of exceptions, the hugest glaring error of course is that Saint Peter, only One of the twelve apostles, and while all the others were arrested or persecuted by Rome, that he is the only true teacher to pass on Catholic Christianity in Rome, which is junk. No way otherwise you have to accept Revelation is to 7 churches in Anatolia supervised by Saint Andrew or Saint Paul, and if this is the infallible written word of God antithetical to the Pope's overruling it, Pope or Bible. The Church was ordered in a "Pentarchy" and lost territory caused this administration to fall to a tyrant and dictator that wasn't intended to be. Names are fun to throw around, most of them Derogatory, but the first split then, is that of Pope's support of "holy roman Empire", the Pentarchy of 1000 ad of course describes Holy Roman Empire as the Byzantine Empire, or "Orthodox".