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This 3 page paper discusses whether or not a society is better or worse when it is a theocracy; the paper differentiates between organized religion and faith. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a number of Islamic nations whose political systems are based not on law, but on Islam. This paper discusses whether or not a society is better or worse when it
is a theocracy; the paper differentiates between organized religion and faith. Discussion Lets take the last point first. There are many people of good will, great spirituality and strong faith
who do not belong to any organized religion. Faith and religion are not the same thing, and "[F]ailure to recognize this often ignored point generates most of the back lash
against organized religion" (Steelman, 2005). Religion is a "faith based system" that is invented by man to enable him to practice a specific faith-it is not faith itself (Steelman, 2005).
Faith implies "something very personal, something too abstract to be easily universalized. Faith is the willow that bends unchanging in the storm while religion, its more brittle counterpart, evolves and
adapts over time" (Steelman, 2005). The problem then with modeling a society on religion is that it is ever-changing, not a steady influence; and that it is codified and dogmatic.
It prescribes a set of rules that must be followed without exception, which rules may clash with legal precedent, or common sense. In the present, America is engaged in
a precarious adventure in the Middle East the motives for which are mixed. While Bush and other politicians make it clear that the "war on terror" is not in fact
a "war on Muslims," Lewis believes that for Arabs, the opposite is true (Lewis, 2001). "For bin Laden and those who follow him, this is a religious war, a war
for Islam and against infidels, and therefore, inevitably, against the United States, the greatest power in the world of the infidels" (Lewis, 2001). Holy war is a concept foreign to
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