<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Dan, you hang around with some strange people. Have those guys read Leviticus? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 7:11 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Jun 27, 2021, at 2:37 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks for the new word: theonomy, then, really what each religion proposes, while theocracy is a state-sponsored religion, like the Anglican in England, I suppose. I keep trying to figure out what I am, and what I am, I think, is one of a kind, who overlaps with many, but totally with nobody, which I think describes many who have complex, nuanced, values. How are people like us going to have an influence at all, since we can fully agree with no one? Run for office, I reckon. bill w</div></div>
</div></blockquote><br><div><div dir="ltr">Theocracy doesn’t exactly mean state-sponsored religion and the Anglican Church is not really an example of theocracy. (Even if one considers this a fuzzy thing, the UK today isn’t anything like what theocratically inclined folks want.) Theocracy means rule by clergy. (One can argue about Henry VIII changing that, but it’s more the monarchy took over the church than the other way ‘round.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Theonomists are even more particular… And I mean the ones I know — not some generic theonomist based on the definition. These folks want Old Testament inspired laws put in place and they’re quite ready to say their interpretation of that — e.g., gays, adulterers, and blasphemers jailed or executed, other religions outlawed, non-Christians basically given second class or even non-citizen status.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I don’t mind labels. They’re helpful. I expect people who call themselves X to have some wiggle room. That said, I’m surprised when folks say they’re X and then go on to endorse many anti-X things. For instance, if someone says they’re a civil libertarian and then spends all day talking about how this and that should be censored and no knock warrants are the best tool law enforcement ever invented — next to beating confessions out of suspects, then I begin to think either they don’t know what being a civil libertarian entails (in other words, they’re ignorant or stupid) or they do know what it entails (in which case, they’re playing some game).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">A big problem here, too, is a word is coined and then ‘escapes’ out into public. It had a more or less clear meaning when it was coined, though probably not precise like in some logical language. But once others else starts throwing it around, the meaning changes. Socialism is a word like this. Note how it’s used to mean everything from state control of industries to welfare programs to communism to wearing a mask and getting vaccinated. (Socialism is a good term to look at because it want exactly used to mean central planning or welfare programs by its earliest users. In fact, for a time individualist anarchists described themselves as socialists. And, no, they did NOT mean that state central planning would eventually lead to some anarchist society.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dan</div></div></div>
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