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theocracy

noun as in government in which a deity is the supreme civil ruler

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“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book.

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Wilson, whose ministry operates hundreds of churches around the world, is an outspoken right-wing evangelical, espousing extremely conservative views of Christianity, including the view that the U.S. should be a theocracy.

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Republicans are getting increasingly aggressive about spreading Christian nationalist lies that the U.S. was founded as a functional theocracy, when it was intended to be a secular nation.

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The reality is that nationalism, not theocracy, remains what what the historian Ali Ansari calls the “determining ideology” of Iran.

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Are they going to turn Alabama into a theocracy, like Iran, where women don't have rights?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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