[Yardstick]

That’s right. And I wonder how paranoid liberals explain that despite the country being distinctly more Christian in the past and much less “progressive” it never came close to being a theocracy. I’m sure their theory must account for that somehow.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They push their definition of “theocracy” way to the sensitive end, is what they do. There were occasional clashes, and atheists had to sit through other people’s prayers from time to time, but nothing on the usurping scale of what, say, the Obamination is trying to get Hobby Lobby to do.

[Steve_Seattle]

"That’s right. And I wonder how paranoid liberals explain that despite the country being distinctly more Christian in the past and much less “progressive” it never came close to being a theocracy. I’m sure their theory must account for that somehow."

For them a "theocracy" is a country in which a president or politician occasionally makes a reference to Christian faith, no matter how detached the statement might be from any specific policy - unless, of course, they know the president is lying about his faith, as with Obama.