re: #66 dragonfire1981

I’m curious: Has there ever been a successful Christian theocratic nation?

Calvin’s Geneva, or Puritan Massachusetts probably came closest, but they were hardly ‘nations’.

Medieval Europe essentially had secular and religious governmental bodies working side by side and splitting the tasks and the controls (For an interesting cinematic version of this, see “The Advocate”, where the young lawyer gets his client acquitted of secular charges of witchcraft, and then loses her to the Church, which executes her.)

In Protestant Renaissance nations, you get something closer—a merging of religious and national identities.

Not exactly, I think would be the answer, but it depends entirely on how you define ‘theocratic’.