[geeks] Socialized medicine [was Re: nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro]

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 27, 2008, at 16:07 , der Mouse wrote:

>>> English theocracy ?  [...]
>> Why avoid an accurate description?
>
> I didn't write any of the stuff leading up to that...but
> "state-mandated religion" is by no means the same thing as  
> "theocracy".
> Based on what I've seen in the thread, this was much closer to the
> former than to the latter.

Depends on your definition.

Mike says that it means the priests make decisions.

I just see it as state and government are intertwined, which was true  
in England.

Mandatory tithes... that's not priests making government decisions?   
The government either wanted the church to take the money, was using  
it for themselves, or the church told the government to enforce it.

Either way, it seems to me that matches at least part of even Mike's  
definition of theocracy.

But like I said, this is more than I was planning to make out of it,  
and in the end some of the people leaving (and others here and there)  
certainly believed England was theocratic, and that's really all that  
matters.

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Shannon Hendrix
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