If mankind is guilty of intellectual laziness, it is his tacit assumption that theocracy is a simple concept and a monolithic idea, namely that a theocracy is a system with religion at its core. In an artificial and superficial sense, one might get away with this level of sloppy thinking, but it hardly advances human wisdom beyond that of the dilettante. In this piece the core distinctions between the two great bodies of thought are delineated and following this, a lengthy list of characteristics is laid out for the Western model. You will never see reality in the same way again.
