False Charts
Theocrat and his version of government policy, law, and science:
I think you're misrepresenting what a theocratic understanding of government policy, law, and science, as well, are by your crude and deceiving chart, Kade. I think you need to read more about what a theocracy entails before you post naive models which have nothing to do with the tenets of a theocratic faith. I believe the following excerpt from R.J. Rushdoony's work,
The Institutes of Biblical Law, will give you a good foundational understanding and introduction to what the nature of law is as revelation and treaty in society, from a theocrat's perspective:
Law is in every culture religious in origin. Because law governs man and society, because it establishes and declares the meaning of justice and righteousness, law is inescapably religious, in that it establishes in practical fashion the ultimate concerns of a culture. Accordingly, a fundamental and necessary premise in any and every study of law must be, first, a recognition of this religious nature of law.
Second, it must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society. If law has its source in man's reason, then reason is the god of that society. If the source is an ogliarchy, or in a court, senate, or ruler, then that source is the god of that system. Thus, in Greek culture, law was essentially a religiously humanistic concept... Because for the Greeks, mind was one being with the ultimate order of things, man's mind was thus able to discover ultimate law (nomos) out of its own resources, by penetrating through the maze of accident and matter to the fundamental ideas of being. As a result, Greek culture became both humanistic, because man's mind was one with ultimacy, and also neoplatonic, ascetic, and hostile to the world of matter, because mind, to be truly itself, had to separate itself from non-mind.
Modern humanism, the religion of the state, locates law in the state and thus makes the state, or the people as they find expression in the state, the god of the system... In Western culture, law has steadily moved away from God to the people (or the state) as its source, although the historic power and vitality of the West has been in Biblical faith and law.
Third, in any society, any change of law is an explicit or implicit change of religion. Nothing more clearly reveals, in fact, the religious change in a society than a legal revolution. When the legal foundations shift from Biblical law to humanism, it means that the society now draws its vitality and power from humanism, not from Christian theism.
Fourth, no disestablishment of religion as such is possible in any society. A church can be disestablished, and a particular religion can be supplanted by another, but the change is simply to another religion. Since the foundations of law are inescapably religious, no society exists without a religious foundation or without a law-system which codifies the morality of its religion.
Fifth, there can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance. Legal positivism, a humanistic faith, has been savage in its hostility to the Biblical law-system and has claimed to be an "open" system... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations, or else it commits suicide.
(R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law, [The Craig Press, The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1973], pp. 4-6.)
You've forgotten one thing, Kade. God is not merely reduceable to a scientific hypothesis or theory because of His own nature, which is spiritual or immaterial in essence (
John 4:24). Thus, He exists transcendentally outside of nature, yet possessing the ability to personally reveal Himself to whomever He will while simultaneously providing all men sufficient knowledge about His existence through the creation and their consciences, generally, and through His Scriptures, specifically, so that no man is without excuse about God's existence (
Romans 1:18-25)
Therefore, your so-called "rational" view chart does not deal with the
transcendental nature for proving God's existence, which simply states that without God's existence, you could not prove
anything, even rationality itself. Your chart simply assumes that all metaphysical entities must be proven through some sort of inductive method of scientific discovery, which is a philosophy held by those with a materialistic, atheistic worldview.
