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Theocratic authority tends to be a very top-down with no inherent check on its use. Divine Right, Papal Infallacy, Fundamentalist 'morality' you name it, its a bitch to change or resist when those bodies are the ruling authority. If then that ruling authority gets all nasty, its not going to dislodge itself peacefully. That doesn't mean a secular government can't be dramatically horrible and commit all kinds of abuses, its just that one particular angle in which authority is assumed or recognized doesn't have real traction. This should allow you setup a functional liberal democracy without having to worry about any of those above strains of theocratic authority mucking up the system's balancing act. So secularism by itself doesn't guarantee benevolent behavior, its just one practical filter/method out of many in which a society can apply to try and get both a functional and rational government working on its behalf. Berk Berkly fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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