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Originally Posted by LightBulb
America is defined by its Constitution. It is not designed to be a theocracy.
However, people do take advantage of power to push religious (or allegedly religious) agendas.
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@1st line: Maybe. Maybe not. I argue that it isn't overtly designed to be a theocracy, since the founding fathers were allegedly deists. But it covertly may have been designed to be a theocracy or at least a dominant ideologracy (
) to be applied wherever possible. And the full intent of the framers of the Constitution is always up for discussion.
ETA: The Constitution was written within an historical context so it definitely was influenced by some of the dominant ideologies of that time, just as it contributed to a dominant ideology after it was written. Religious or not. Amendments such as the Thirteenth Amendment represented a shift in a particular dominant ideology (arguably for economic purposes rather than moral purposes).
@2nd line: Definitely.