Also, even the US is not in danger of becoming a theocracy.

KerrAvon · 2025-09-29T14:59:54 1759157994

This is a dangerously ignorant statement. You need to read up on the dude who’s now third in line for the presidency.

wat10000 · 2025-09-29T18:54:02 1759172042

Never mind third in line, the dude who is currently President just put out a memorandum declaring "anti-Christianity" to be on the same level as "support for the overthrow of the United States Government."

tomhow · 2025-09-30T22:31:40 1759271500

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

sofixa · 2025-09-29T15:04:30 1759158270

I really wouldn't go this far, there is _way_ too much religion in US politics for proper separation of church and state. When elected politicians regularly quote religious documents in their reasoning for making decisions, agreeing and disagreeing with others, etc. you can't claim a theocracy isn't on the cards.

hollerith · 2025-09-29T15:22:32 1759159352

Maybe we have different definitions of theocracy. According to your definition, has there been a time in the past when the US was a theocracy?

sofixa · 2025-09-29T18:42:27 1759171347

No, it has not. But you cannot deny that religion being a visible, daily, part of politics, and being very often quoted as justification for political, and even worse, judicial decisions, is closer to a theocracy than it is to separation of church and state.