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Is it possible to have a theocratic form of gov't in a democracy? Why or why not?

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Is it possible to have a theocratic form of gov't in a democracy? Why or why not?

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  1. The very definitions of theocracy and democracy make them mutually exclusive.  That's why the founding fathers wrote a separation of Church and State into the Constitution!


  2. you are Delusional

    "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." - Thomas Jefferson

    the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion..."

    From Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli 1797. Unanimously ratified by the U.S. Senate and signed by President John Adams.

    the dark ages was a theocracy

    theocracy  : government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionar...

    People Guided by Fairies and Magic ???ASK the billions killed  during the dark ages ,,the last time religion ruled  

    "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." — Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758.

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