Hopeful Thinking: What a True Theocracy Looks Like

Hopeful Thinking: What a true theocracy looks like

There are many examples in the world today of governments that are referred to as theocracies. By definition, a theocracy is a governmental system that uses religious law as its source material. To add authority to that system of governance, it also declares its leadership to be both divinely appointed and divinely inspired. In the United States, as in several other democracies in the world, constitutionally we partition our government from infl…

Reflections | Like Iran today, China once had theocracies governed by divine rule

While emperors in Imperial China generally kept religion and governance separate, true theocracies could be found among breakaway regimes.