I’m personally not looking for a theocracy myself (and don’t do the “Downfall of Western Civilization” thing) – BUT – Tristan’s reading of history is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_state State secularism has generally been on the rise in the last 250 yrs, with a few exceptions such as Iran and Iraq who went from secular to religious states, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_solae suffer from a lack of accountability generally. But in the US did Puritanism’s strictness lead to abandonment? US History readings give a generally positive slant to much of Puritanism http://www.ushistory.org/us/3d.asp and Wikipedia currently ascribes a lot of credit to them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans – and if you encourage people to be literate to read the Bible, they might also read OTHER things like secular philosophers whose ideas might supercede reading the Bible, eventually leading to a time where they stop reading the Bible and ONLY read other things. I won’t go any further as I did enough without enough coffee. But I like exploring the idea that Protestantism / Reformation efforts led to a future which unraveled a “society of care”. Even if it turns out to lead to rabbit holes and is spurious and specious it’s an interesting notion.

I’m personally not looking for a theocracy myself (and don’t do the “Downfall of Western Civilization” thing) – BUT – Tristan’s reading of history is interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_state State secularism has generally been on the rise in the last 250 yrs, with a few exceptions such as Iran and Iraq who went from secular to religious states,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_solae suffer from a lack of accountability generally.

But in the US did Puritanism’s strictness lead to abandonment?
US History readings give a generally positive slant to much of Puritanism http://www.ushistory.org/us/3d.asp and Wikipedia currently ascribes a lot of credit to them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans – and if you encourage people to be literate to read the Bible, they might also read OTHER things like secular philosophers whose ideas might supercede reading the Bible, eventually leading to a time where they stop reading the Bible and ONLY read other things.

I won’t go any further as I did enough without enough coffee.

But I like exploring the idea that Protestantism / Reformation efforts led to a future which unraveled a “society of care”. Even if it turns out to lead to rabbit holes and is spurious and specious it’s an interesting notion.

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