If heaven and hell is real, is theocracy the only moral form of government? I mean, if people will go to hell unless they believe in Jesus, than those in power should do everything to save them, convert as many people as possible.
For example, if there is a new drug on the market that's both super addictive and damaging to your health, and more and more people are getting hooked on it, ruining their lives, I would expect the government to start some kind of program to keep people away from it and get addicts off that shit. Even though I'm pretty libertarian, I would consider them a shitty and immoral government if they just let all this happen.
If Christianity is true, sin and unbelief have even much more dire consequences than that hypothetical drug. Wouldn't it also be the responsibility of any government to do everything to save people from such consequences, meaning: to promote Christianity with all their power?
In the middle ages, this was the accepted viewpoint: the main task of a king was to protect and help the church, leading his subjects to salvation.
>>943997
Moot point since Christianity isn't true.
>>943997
Technically the Catholic church still officially supports Monarchy as the proper form of government with a Catholic monarch at the head. Although you can't really legislate belief into a person. Only conformity with ritual at most
>>944010
>>944045
>Yes, monarchies are the best form of government.
That must be why absolute monarchies hardly exist anymore
>>944020
You can always launch an Inquisition, torture works, people will do anything to avoid a bit of pain.
>>944065
And that's exactly why the world is going to shit.
>>944074
>You can always launch an Inquisition,
All an inquisition does is investigate if someone accused of heresy actual is a heretic
>torture works
Again not at belief, but at conformity to ritual
Not necessarily theocracy, but theonomy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theonomy
>>944075
He said, behind his computer, well-fed, in a warm home
>>944065
>progressivism
>ad populum logical fallacy
>appeal to authority
>>943997
Theologically, the only acceptable form of government from a Christian (but also Jewish and Muslim) perspective is theocratic communism.
>>944065
He was talking about monarchies generally so where did you pull ABSOLUTE monarchies out of?
>If heaven and hell is real, is theocracy the only moral form of government?
Yes.
The modern State is an aberration.
>>944086
Do you know him?
>>943997
What are the Orthodox and Catholic views on Matthew 22:17?
>>944086
>my little home represents the entire world
>>944089
>fallacy fallacies
>>944090
>communism
Didn't you mean socialism?
>>944095
I highly doubt he'd bother to be on here if he was homeless and starving, although that would make him the first christian on 4chan to actually live according to his religion
>>944086
Yearning for dark ages is easy, bringing it all about will take much misery, poverty, holy war and a good ole fashioned Inquisition.
>>944093
Whenever someone discusses monarchy absolute monarchies are what republicucks zoom in on. It's the equivalent of bringing Hitler into a discussion he's not involved in
>>944123
Yeah I noticed.
>>944020
>Technically the Catholic church still officially supports Monarchy as the proper form of government with a Catholic monarch at the head.
Not since late XIXth century IIRC. Regarding the form of government, the Catholic doctrine just holds that it should be moral, without going into details.
Which is quite prudent desu, because a constitutional monarchy with a completely powerless king isn't any better than a democracy as far as Church is concerned.
>>944090
>the only acceptable form of government from a Christian (but also Jewish and Muslim) perspective is theocratic communism.
Corportationism, not communism. <tips Rerum Novarum>
