The greater the sin of a nation, the more they resent the idea of a theocracy. The thing is, there are only two biblical examples of theocracy - the Jews under the OT law and the future millennial reign of Jesus.
In the meantime, when man governs man (even in countries governed by legislation based on the Bible) there is a distinction between permissible and ideal morality. The law of the state forms an “outside” set of standards for reasonable conduct, but the height of the legal bar is not set on any particular religion. The Christian faith introduces God’s “inside” standards - the condition of the heart and the supremacy of love as a cardinal standard (1 Corinthians 13).
I say this because I just read the most moronic thing on Facebook (I won’t name the author)..
“The United States is a white supremacist, misogynist misery of genocide, oppression and corporate-fueled culture war that is so hell-bent on taking power and wealth that it is steadily stripping the rights of everyone, and impoverishing the majority of the population, remaking it into a dystopian evangelical Christian corporate feudalism… don’t even have a name for it,
The antidote, as far as I can tell, is local organizing, local communities, with national and international communication and learning, and a steady fuel of love, hope and resistance.
Oh, and white people and men especially disrupting the status quo, talking to other white people and other men. Not from a savior complex, but because women and people of color have already been fighting and organizing for a long time, and we need traitors to the culture to edge the power-holders out of the trauma-fueled controlling fear reactions.
The good news is that no empire has ever lasted, and that there are so many, many, many of us doing incredibly good things on a daily basis, more than can be counted.
In this moment, though, I just want to break things.”
There may come a point in the future where those who represent the hated “Judao-Christian” standards are no longer around, leaving these activists to live in the world they campaigned for. At this point of apparent victory, I suspect the progressives of all stripes will enjoy the fruit of moral relativism and secularism far less than they imagined.