Iran's regime is malevolent, but there are polls (how do you poll in a theocratic police state?) showing substantial support for the nuclear-weapons program and ballistic-missile development.
In the 1942 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, Rutherford wrote that the year's achievements "would, on the face of it, show that the Theocratic witness work on earth is about done".
gain in contrast to Lewis, Donner shows that while the theocratic leanings of Islam make it seem different from other monotheistic faiths today, at the beginning they merely perpetuated the models of the contemporary great powers, Christian Byzantium and Sasanian Persia.
The show of support for the theocratic state was followed by a statement issued by 221 MPs stating: "We believe the people have lost their patience and demand capital punishment".
The show and the book depict a theocratic totalitarian state in which women are tightly controlled and used as forced breeders, domestic laborers, and worse.
And that's how it comes to matter to people that the president didn't say the word "terrorism" enough times in a speech, or didn't immediately call for Iranian dissidents to rise up and overthrow the theocratic regime with some sort of powerful, melodramatic show of triumphalist fervor.
Since it debuted, audiences have not held back in drawing terrifying parallels between the show's portrayal of Gilead ― a theocratic regime whose continued existence depends upon its ability to force women to surrender control over their own bodies ― and the divided state of America today.
Still, the U.S. in 2017 does not show immediate signs of becoming Gilead, Atwood's imagined theocratic American republic.
Still, James' very choice of analogies to illustrate the relationship between the spiritual and temporal realms showed that his solution lay much closer to the theocratic position espoused by Giles of Rome than his efforts to find a "middle way" would have us believe.
