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I have seen a lot of TLs where the world is threatened by massive Theocratic Empires that generally restrict freedoms of their populace, retard technology, and go on a worldwide conquest frenzy with suicide-bombers as foot soldiers (all while being hypocritical about the tenets of their religion). But why not have the theocrats as the good guys for a while? What kind of scenarios will make that possible?

We can just as easily get a Theocracy that is compatible with science and general prosperity, and protects members of other religions and prays for them instead of physically persecuting them fighting an avowedly atheist *Stalinist empire.
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