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Originally Posted by Wilsonwas
I was gonna let this dog lie, as I tbink the original poster wanted to end it but...
Taliban V. Ultra-con oneness groups.
From the BBC...
predominantly Pashtun movement, the Taliban came to prominence in Afghanistan in the autumn of 1994.
It is commonly believed that they first appeared in religious seminaries - mostly paid for by money from Saudi Arabia - which preached a hard line form of Sunni Islam.
The Taliban's promise - in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power.
I would expect that an emboldened UPCI articles of faith post the 70s and WPF perhaps, would behave in much the same way. I.E enforce an austere version of Christianity based on the conformist values of the US in the mid 1900s.
Note the BBC article has the Taliban enforcing beards, and dress and behavior codes for women - destroying the historical places of other faiths and forcing peace based on power backed by the infallibility clause of being like the blues brothers "on a mission from god".
There are already pastors, and higher placed individuals in charge of churches or organizational units, generally not the heads of the movements themselves at this time, that endorse austere non-biblical principles as doctrine.
I would imagine a thocracy of these folks, could arise from the process currently en vogue with our government to never waste a good crises to tighten up the screws of justice, even if it is the twisted SJW version now. Like now one still has the option to move to another location. An option not so available in other locations and regimes, that might suit the Bernie Bots better.
I am saying that no government not headed by Christ himself will move toward tyranny, if religious toward fundamentalist- to crazy. If godless from idiocracy to Soviet style Orwellian overreach.
The powerful will seek to inflate and secure that power in the name of good, but in the manner of evil. Not that they would set out to lie, cheat, and murder, but rather they would twist scriptures to support its eventual outcome.
Though very isolated abuse of power has happened in churches, just like it does in the secular.
As well as you guys think we are nuts for not seeing how "wonderful" your reconstructionist utopia would be, I find it nuts that you think it would be any less prone to corruption than any other human endevor.
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So you oppose all government, then, since it is all liable to abuse? Do you oppose marriage, because it is liabe to abuse? Do you oppose any and all forms of church government because they are liable to abuse?
Or do you just oppose society looking to the Bible for solutions?
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