The Taliban has announced that Islamic Shariah law will be in place now in Afghanistan. If the so-called Christian Patriot militias in the US overthrow the government, will they apply Christian Law here?

It isn’t just militias; “dominionism” is a goal of a number of Christian churches in America, i.e. theocratic rule with law derived from the Bible. As for what it would look like, who knows. The Bible isn’t like the Qur’an or hadith, which provide explicit guidelines on how society should be run (Islam is a religion as much as a political system). The Bible emphasizes (at least in the New Testament) the distinction between secular rule and life in Christ and even exhorts believers to submit to the ruling authorities (a part of the Pauline epistles quoted in bad faith by a number of Republicans during Trump’s reign). The only part of the Bible that does have explicit rules for running a society is the Mosaic Law, which most modern Christians claim no longer applies to them.

I’d imagine at least there’d be mandatory prayer in all schools, maybe mandatory church attendance, a ban on homosexuality and same-sex marriage, and a blanket abortion ban…

Interesting question. The bible says Christians will be persecuted, so I doubt the majority ever consider this scenario.Plus Jesus was a proponent of choice.

Having so incredibly diverse beliefs under one Christian umbrella would be near impossible, as well.
Likely @Desmosthenes is close.
Honestly, I’m not certain it wouldn’t be a similar version of Sharia law. Hard pass.

Can you be more specific as to exactly what you mean and exactly how this “Christian law” would be applied?
Would these Christians force everyone to go to church and read their Bibles every day?
Would Agnostics and Atheists be taken out and shot? (Or some other?)
What about the Christians who go to church on Saturday vs. the Christians who go to church on Sunday?
Clearly, the United States would not be the United States as our forefathers intended. I doubt that only the Agnostics and Atheists would be the ones to come out fighting.

Mark 12:29 “Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.””

If you are looking for what “Christian Law” is about, I guess you need to see it as Christ says it should be. So if someone pushed through “Christian Law” it would look like loving each other.

Yes, actual Christian law would provide for the needs of everyone, abolish poverty, interest on debts, and most banking as we know it, and other acts of love and acceptance.

Wacko American Christian law would outlaw homosexuality, abortion, and disobeying thy husband, and head us back in the direction of inquisitions, witch trials, and excommunication meaning killing and stealing from non-Church-approved people is fine.

If by “Christian Law” they mean hanging people they don’t like from the trees then yes, it is more than likely that would follow.

They would cherry-pick whatever repressive biblical law they want from the book, regardless of the context or other rules that contradict them, and they will exclude anything they do not agree with (like giving away all your possessions to the poor).
I also guarantee that they would add the “prosperity gospel” to it.
Does not matter that Jesus lost his shit over money changers, or that he flat out said that rich people have virtually no chance of entering heaven.

This “Christian Law” or whatever it is, sounds horrible.

And remember, kids:
The defining characteristic of religious extremism is not their own fealty to established religious canon, it is their extreme fervour in imposing their religion on others.
It is about power, first and foremost.

Heads would roll!

The Christian Patriots are maniacs. They won’t be able to lead anything. How many of them are there who actually want to overthrow the government? A few hundred thousand?

Maybe for a while Christians in power would latch onto the maniacs excited to get their opportunity to outlaw abortion, lower taxes even more, get rid of gay marriage, not allow birth control pills for unmarried women, and bring back corporal punishment in all schools.

I’d give it max five years until it all starts to fall apart.

I don’t see how they can being they really don’t follow any of them.

Well extremist Christian group has caused the worst riot in modern history, so I don’t think they would have enough braincell to lead a country.

And vice versa. If extremist religious organizations were so effective, the Middle East would have been the most prosperous region years ago.

I thought our law was based upon Christian- Judaea philosophy

@BobM current American use of “Judeo-Christian” — to refer to a value system common to Jews and Christians — first appeared in print in a book review by the English writer George Orwell in 1939, with the phrase “the Judaeo-Christian scheme of morals.”[1] Orwell’s usage of the term followed at least a decade of efforts by Jewish and Christian leaders, through such groups as the National Conference of Christians and Jews (founded in 1927), to emphasize common ground. The term continued to gain currency in the 1940s. In part, it was a way of countering antisemitism with the idea that the foundation of morals and law in the United States was a shared one between Jews and Christians.[2][3] Wiki

@BobM “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

Thus sayeth Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, as presented by George Washington and unanimously ratified by the US Senate in 1797.

And then there’s Article VI, Clause 2 of the US Constitution:

“All Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

Several of the Founders were deists, anyway. They were more interested in Enlightenment era philosophy than Judeo-Christian philosophy.

Thank you for that I stand corrected