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My point is that you can't point to some time when there were abuses and call that a "Christian theocracy." This is akin to pointing to the divided kingdom under Rehoboam and Jeroboam, and saying that was an example of a "theocracy." While the people may have claimed to be serving God, it is plain that they were not actually doing so.
But it's too easy to point to abuses or anything else we don't like and say, They're not really Christians or They weren't really doing God's will or They misunderstood how theocracy can be practiced. Ultimately you end up with a "king can do no wrong" situation where theocracy (or for that matter the Christian church) can never be blamed for anything that goes wrong since you just define true Christianity or true theocracy or true Gospel so narrowly that problems are defined away.
It's kind of like the guys who posted here a couple of days ago claiming that Arminians aren't really Christians. Well, yes they are; we just don't agree with them on that point.
I agree with you that public schools should not exist. But so long as they do they, like the rest of government, should not be an arm of the church.
