Explain why theocratic ideologies are not successful in about 200-300 words. Best answer will get 50 points and brainliest.
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The first and main reason for thinking that a theocracy is a bad political system is that it doesn't allow freedom to make many personal life choices. a good example of this is Saudi Arabia, which is a theocracy and it is illegal there to convert from Islam to any other religion. This makes life very difficult for those who want to do this, as it limits their human rights. Another reason is that religious teachings can be interpreted subjectively. as an example, some Christians are strongly against the use of contraception and others are not. Therefore, any country governed by Christianity could change this law depending on who is in charge at the time.
I hope this helps, i don't think that it is 200-300 words, but it is all i know about it and I think it is a good start that you can work off of :) i hope it helps :) have a great day :)
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THEOCRACY means "rule by God" and refers to a type of government in which God or gods are thought to have sovereignty, or to any state so governed. The concept has been widely applied to such varied cases as pharaonic Egypt, ancient Israel, medieval Christendom, Calvinism, Islam, and Tibetan Buddhism.
The word was first coined in the Greek language (theokratia ) by the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius around 100 ce. Josephus noted that while the nations of the world were variously governed by monarchies, oligarchies, and democracies, the polity of the Jews was theocracy. This, he thought, went back to Moses, who was not attracted by the model of these other polities and therefore "designated his government a theocracy—as someone might say, forcing an expression—thus attributing the rule and dominion to God" (Against Apion 2.165).
From Josephus's coinage the term found its way into modern languages, though most early uses were references to the government of ancient Israel, and thus faithful to the original context. The poet John Donne, in a sermon of 1622, stated that the Jews had been under a theocracy, and the Anglican bishop William Warburton, in his Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated (1737–1741), engaged in a long discussion of Israelite theocracy.