Talk:theocracy
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I would like to verify the supposed second sense: "rule by God". What does this mean, and is this a real sense? ---> Tooironic (talk) 08:45, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
- It sounds very plausible. Rule by God would mean the same Rule by government but instead of a government, God. Whether such a thing exists is irrelevant, because we can have words expressing concepts whether the concept is real or not. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:00, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
- Is Josephus not a sufficient verification? If not, then the OED has "A form of government in which God (or a deity) is recognized as the king or immediate ruler, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the kingdom, these laws being usually administered by a priestly order as his ministers and agents" as its primary meaning. Should we modify our second sense to clarify? Dbfirs 11:36, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
- Interesting that the two different-sounding definitions could easily have the same referent. Some of our definitions of democracy, communism, and socialism require some of the same kind of w:Suspension of disbelief as this one. DCDuring TALK 20:46, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
- Is Josephus not a sufficient verification? If not, then the OED has "A form of government in which God (or a deity) is recognized as the king or immediate ruler, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the kingdom, these laws being usually administered by a priestly order as his ministers and agents" as its primary meaning. Should we modify our second sense to clarify? Dbfirs 11:36, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
- Certain societies (e.g. Rome, Egypt) have believed that their rulers were gods, so I tried searching for "theocracy" + Rome and "theocracy" + Egypt. Results at Citations:theocracy. - -sche (discuss) 23:31, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
- I would call this cited if we modify the definition to "rule by a god", since the examples are of a society which displayed belief in multiple gods. bd2412 T 12:50, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
- I've modified the def accordingly and detagged the entry. - -sche (discuss) 19:08, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
- I would call this cited if we modify the definition to "rule by a god", since the examples are of a society which displayed belief in multiple gods. bd2412 T 12:50, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Striking as verified as amended. bd2412 T 18:03, 14 August 2013 (UTC)