Christians: If a Christian theocracy was founded, would you move to it?

Yes

<<Christians: If a <snip> is all about.>>

So, what's wrong with a Catholic nation?

<<Schools could only teach things in accord with the Bible.>>

NOT true. Catholic schools do, in fact, teach science as well as every other subject. It's just that they also teach religious studies. That's the only difference.

<<Prayer might be mandatory.>>

So?

<<Obviously, the religion <snip> you understand it.>>

Well, yeah. As a Catholic, I don't have a problem with that.

<<Members of other <snip> point of expulsion.>>

Specific examples, please - because I can't think of any myself.

<<It would still <snip> nation like that?>>

A Catholic nation? Yes. After all, I am Catholic.

<<Or would you <snip> the government's practices?>>

Actually, a secular country wouldn't/couldn't be "free" if one wasn't allowed to practice one's religion or advance one's religious agenda in their government's policies.

Many will go. Most would be expelled. Then they'd have to rethink some things and secularity would start to creep in.

It's human nature to buck rules. Many would shirk mandatory prayer because it's human to thwart rules, to feel alive. If this nation is not deadly sectarian, just by laws, then by how I know Americans at least, it would just turn into a secular nation all over again. At least the right winger would be correct in saying it's a Christian nation.

But they'd have to lighten up the rules for the growing population of nonbelievers born there.

Historically, there have been many cultures where religion controlled the lives of the people. Based on their behaviors in both western and eastern civilizations, I would not like to live under a 'state-religion'.

According to historical reference, religion is not the driving force behind the development or birth-and-death of civilizations, but is only an apparition which occurs during the negative and declining side of a civilization's life.

Um...this notion of living in a "Christian theocracy" sounds as inviting as living in North Korea. Members of other faiths penalized? What??? It sounds like a Nazi regime. I don't care what the founding principle is if you aren't free to believe whatever you want.

Separation of church and state, dude.

Hmm. I thought the original reason the British came to the new world was to get away from a state religion. I must be mistaken in what I read in that history book.

no, but i sure would like to build a huge orphanage and a private school. but im just fantacizing.

i tried to live in a kibbutz. it wasn't so bad, even though i was only there a brief time. i definitely didn't like the idea that one of our coworkers was a devil worshipper known by hanging a 666 on his door.

No, it would be similar to a Sunni Islamic Theocracy, such as the one in Saudi Arabia. Maybe even worse. At least they don't stone their children for badmouthing their parents, what Christianity advocates.

I would campaign til my dying breath against a government like that. That would be horrible, and totally self-defeating.

That's not what Christianity is about at all.

I probably wouldn't move there. I prefer the US system, which is a constitution based on christian principals. Of course it requires people with morals, and that is fading fast.