Theocracy is just basically the status quo but with religion. If you want to troll tradcons, tell them that religions like Christianity preach altruism and that can be very easily subverted by some tyrant with socialist ideals.
If you know anything about Christianity, one core teaching of the religion is donating to and helping the poor and the needy (which I don't see that as a bad thing because I do think humanity has an obligation to help those less fortunate; one less hungry mouth and one less person not dying from a preventable disease makes the world a little bit better).
However, the altruistic values of Christianity makes it very easy for some tyrant to gain power and make everyone's life a living Hell where even the religious people will lose.
Theocracy is a 'Status Quo' ideology because it still preaches some values that can be seen as socialist. I'm sure everyone here is familiar with churches running charity drives and food drives where people will gladly donate electronics, clothes, toys, food, cars, and other things to those less fortunate. Charity is not socialism and there is nothing wrong with non-profit religious organizations donating goods to the needy; but charity becomes socialism when you start applying these ideals on a government level and then you end up with a tyrant that demands more power to fix society's problems. There's also the fact that Theocracy is anti-intellectual where very often Theocracy is hostile to any new ideas (even if the new ideas may actually benefit said population controlled under Theocracy). It's why ethnic groups like the Amish are centuries behind where their embrace of newer technologies is painfully slow and why countries like Iran have stagnated where they are being left behind on the world stage as the world rapidly changes around them.
When you think about it, Theocracy is just Globalism with a central religious figure or a central religious doctrine in it. Globalism preaches altruism and that countries need to throw away their cultures and values to favor a universal ideal. You get the same thing with Theocracy where it often forces a population to throw away their culture and values to favor a universal ideal. Theocrats are just Globalists that believe in a divine central figure or some other kind of religious doctrine for that matter. Theocracy has never gave the world modern medicine, television, the radio, cars, tractors, airplanes, computers, the Internet, and video games as we know them.
