How would a country completely based on the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ would be?

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I would like to know from you what important and interesting laws and policies a country 100% governed in the traditional principles of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ, build with ultimate goal of saving souls and honoring Go, would have.
 
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That’s tough. B/c God gives us free will. Free will to be part of his Kingdom or not be part of his Kingdom.

So, if Church Morals were implemented as Civil/Criminal law, things like Sunday Mass Attendance would be mandatory of all citizens.

If the nation’s existence came about through some popular vote; surely there would have been dissenters. Do you remove those dissenters’ citizenship and treat them as aliens (constantly investigating them) or do you treat them with respect and pray for them? I’d say the later action would be Christ Like.

Of course Abortion would not be legal as killing an innocent child does nothing to advance the Kingdom of God on Earth. And it is the closest thing to Killing the Son of God that can happen-something that did not save the Old Kingdom of Israel, but yet was seen by the misguided leaders of the time as something that would save the Old Kingdom of Israel.

Regardless, the souls of some in the nation would go to the Netherworld, the devil would still work to deceive the nation, and there would be evil within the nation.
 
It would definitely not be friends with the world. Religious freedom would be gone. Abortions illegal. The alphabet people getting the mental help they need. Rosary rallies everyday. Things like that. It would be perfect, but also unlikely to ever happen. People love the chains of sin too much to allow such laws to be passed.

God willing, one day America will become a holy catholic monarchy.
 
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It would definitely not be friends with the world. Religious freedom would be gone. Abortions illegal. The alphabet people getting the mental help they need. Rosary rallies everyday. Things like that. It would be perfect, but also unlikely to ever happen. People love the chains of sin too much to allow such laws to be passed.

God willing, one day America will become a holy catholic monarchy.
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It won’t come a day too soon for me.

I would add, though, that even though error has no rights, people do. They have not only rights but obligations, and one of those obligations is to seek God according to their consciences, using the best things they have at their disposal. The result could be choosing a religion other than Catholicism. In fifty words or less, this sums up the teaching of the Church on religious liberty.

I would welcome the daily Rosary rallies, as well as the realization that “alphabet” sexuality is something in need of help if possible, Christian compassion and respect on our parts and perfect continence on their parts if it is not possible. Sadly, the anecdotal evidence is that “straight conversion” normally does not work. I would hate to see people resign themselves to a life of shame, misery, and self-hatred because they cannot be cured, and because “pray away the gay” doesn’t work for them.
 
For some people it doesn’t work but for a lot of people it does. Not too long ago there was actually a rally of ex-alphabet people imploring Congress not to restrict conversion therapy.


And in regards to religious liberty, if a country fully recognizes The Sovereign right of Christ the King, they will do everything in their power to prevent something like era of Ezekiel from happening. Read Ezekiel and you’ll see that Israel allowed religious liberty and they lost the kingdom because of it.

It makes sense to keep religious liberty in our secular society. But if our society was not secular and instead 1000% Catholic, I would be the first person to sign the petition to replace the Statue of Liberty with the Statue of Our Lady.
 
I tend to agree with you. But, I believe those days are gone.

If only the King of France would have put the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the French Flag…

I don’t know if you know that story?
 
What Quebec’s flag would have looked like, if things had gone a little differently.

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I’ve thought of moving to Quebec. Yet, don’t care to be subject to a Protestant Monarch (although I find nothing ungodly about the current Royal Family).

Rather, we’re stuck in a republic where misguided folks are deliberately trying to build a nation of Abraham’s descendants.

I don’t know which is better or worse.
 
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It might be interesting to look up a little history of Armenia, the first officially Christian nation (since the 300s). They have most certainly not been without their problems - big ones - and many still persist, as it consists of flawed human beings, as does every other nation.
 
Catholic Theocracy, YEET.

I give up on American politics.
Pope Francis take the wheel.

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A theocracy. Not a good idea. Think about the Vatican State when it was a powerful temporal state or modern countries imposing a specific religion (like Iran). Scary.
 
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@aroosi

What the OP suggested is not theocracy, which is a government by clergy. The OP asked about a nation run according to certain principles.

Every society is run according to certain principles. The US is run on the ideas of economic success and a freedom for the individual which amounts to license.

How would things be in a place where the principles espoused were those of God? Where businessmen took the state of their employees into consideration more than the state of their shareholders? Where people cared about the needy as well as making sure they had the minimal amount of food, etc? Where people were more concerned with how students were doing in all areas of their lives and not just how to raise test scores? Where people considered the content of people’s characters more than their color?
 
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Well, as to the utopic or nightmarish 😉 qualities of the place, that would really depend. Even religious communities have their problems, which is why utopias tend to be fictional

I think the main difference would be that the government would be supportive of Catholic activities and principles, one of which, remember, is the civil right of people not to be forced into Catholicism.

But we might have more Catholic holidays 🙂 as they did in the Middle Ages, for example, and prayers broadcast on the radio, like the Angelus at 6 am, noon, and 6 pm.

People would be more educated in Catholic principles, and use them as a basis for making decisions, but to be honest, religious influence on government is a spectrum. I lean towards more than we have now in the US, but less than the type of control that existed during the establismentarian systems in the [US] colonial times, when, for example, people were required by law to go to church on Sundays or pay a fine.

(I do not in any mean to imply that the US ought to move in that direction, which I would see as totally impractical, only t ok describe a position on the spectrum.)
 
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So what would be my fate in such a state? Tolerated? Marginalized? Punished? Disappeared? Re-educated?
 
From a Catholic point of view, I don’t think you should suffer any ill effects.

Maybe there would be social expectations such as your being respectful of others by being silent if there were a public prayer that those around you were joining in and the like.

Good Catholics should not treat non-Catholics with any lack of respect, but Catholics are imperfect people too, in the same way that in a secular nation such as ours, there are those who do not treat Catholics well.
 
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So if I wished to openly talk of my disbelief, would there be consequences? Would I be permitted to hold public office?
 
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