Originally Posted by Pete F.
Just what is Sharia Law?
In Arabic, the term sharīʿah refers to God's immutable divine law and is contrasted with fiqh, which refers to its human scholarly interpretations.
The "contrast" is not a contradiction or separation from God's immutable divine law. It is not a separate law, it is scholarly and judicial interpretation of the divine law in order to apply it to existing conditions.
Do many white evangelical Christians believe the Bible is the ultimate law by which to govern? And that it supersedes any law written by Man.
I don't know which "many" Christians you refer to, but the New Testament part of the Bible is not concerned with government and its ways of governing. Christ said "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." Islam, on the other hand, is a prescription for government and governing. Islam is both a religion and a form of government. It is theocracy.
If there was a conflict between God’s law and Man’s law, a Christian would be advised to keep God’s Law. It would be better to go to jail than to rot in Hell. — Truthinlove.com
But a Christian would not impose and enforce God's law on others, on non-believers. An Islamist who had the power, in a predominantly Muslim nation, would impose Islam on all those in the nation.
God said it. I believe it. That settles it.
Which God, Christian, Muslim, or yours?
In the Moral Majority’s founding treatise, they were very clear in their belief that God’s law trumps Man’s law, a Christian form of Sharia law. To them, it was imperative to highjack every means of forcing Man’s law to mirror God’s law with patience (they have been at this for over forty years), surgical political strategies (Citizens United, gerrymandering), and utter ruthlessness (encouraging conspiracy theories and sedition from the pulpit.)
This is why so many white evangelicals justify voting for Donald Trump. After almost forty years, their goal of making the United States a theocracy ruled by God’s law was within reach.
The Christian God's law trumping Man's law came over 600 years before Sharia law. It is not a form of Sharia law.
And the Evangelical sects, as well as Catholics and other Protestants, are not as societally exclusive as Seventh Day Adventists, Amish and others who do not participate in politics or don't even vote. So they have secular as well as religious participation in society. Though they may, like atheists or other religions, try to get legislation that they feel strongly about whether for religious or other personal preferences, they go through the legal process. Some might prefer a Christian theocracy, but that would go against the reasons they broke away from the Catholicism that was so deeply affiliated with government before the Reformation. And even before that Reformation, there was no substantial Christian theocracy. The Pope had great influence, but the Monarchs had the last word, if they chose to express it and enforce it.
I doubt that there is any significant desire in the Evangelicals to transform America into a Theocracy. But it's politically effective to make them bogymen.
Because of Mitch McConnell’s block of judicial confirmations in the United States Senate, federal judicial benches around the country sat vacant. With a transactionally conservative President, a takeover of the liberal federal judiciary was within reach, not only to overturn Roe v Wade, but to enact a raft of Bible-based nationwide legislation. Trump further validated evangelical Christians by elevating one to vice-president; he never questioned their candidates for federal judicial appointments; and he paid lip service to their importance.
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