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THEOCRACY. A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by God.
     2. La religion qui, dans l'antiquite, s'associa souvent au despotisms, pour regner. par son bras ou a son ombrage, a quelquefois tents de regner seule. Clest ce qu'elle appelait le regne de Dieu, la thiocratie. Matter, De l'influence des Moeurs sur les lois, et de l'influence dos Lois sur les moeurs, 189. Religion, which in former times, frequently associated itself with despotism, to reign, by its power, or under its shadow, has sometimes attempted to reign alone, and this she has called the reign of God, theocracy.



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Although "it might destroy some acreage," he explained, "it didn't reduce the amount of money the Taliban got by one dollar" Indeed, "it just helped the Taliban" by driving farmers into the arms of the theocratic rebels.
95 Paperback A Bur Oak book HX656 Kolonie-Deutsch, or Amana German, is the peculiar dialect of German that evolved in the last enclave of German Pietist, which practiced a form of theocratic communitarianism in Iowa from the middle 1800s to 1932 when it opened to the outside world.
We see the Afghan Taliban as a wicked, oppressive and violent group intent on returning Afghanistan to primitive theocratic darkness," he said.
 
 
 
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