Religious Governments

[rhialto]

COnsider all teh religious governments that have been proposed in various mods and scenarios...

theocracy - your vanilla medieval religious gov
caliphate - a ctp2 mod gov that had strong religion combined with good science (islam was the science religion in the medieval age)
blood cult - mesoamerica

protestantism, catholicism - poorly implemented imho.

Im wondering what the specific traits in a civics model are that would make the difference between a "theocracy" and a "caliphate".

 

[dh_epic]

Truthfully, I don't think Theocracy existed all that much in medieval society, and when all is said and done religion isn't that incompatible with science. Only a few monumental discoveries were opposed by religious leaders, and even so, they still moved forward. You can't stop progress.

That's how Islam can have a huge amount of momentum, and be the group who brought you such innovations as diverse as cryptography and the welfare state.