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the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) a growing charismatic movement led by a loose network of apostles and prophets who believe Christians are called to take over the government.

That’s wonderful. And the article only gets worse from there.

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I always thought a theocratic dictatorship sounded “charming”.

/s

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I feel like you’re being double sarcastic with the /s being that big lol.
So it does doesn’t sound charming, eh?

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.

This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

-C. S. Lewis

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Damn that hits hard

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It could be slightly worse, though:

"The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (English: “Armed Revolutionary Nuclei”), abbreviated NAR, was an Italian neo-fascist armed militant organization active during the Years of Lead from 1977 to November 1981. "

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eh, scientology already did it better

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At this point stuff like this isn’t oniony anymore, just trump supporters being trump supporters.

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Yeah. It’s the kind of headline that I want to shock me, but it’s just becoming a dreadful background noise.

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Remember when Trump had daily Covid announcements or when he was still on Twitter? Pretty much everything he did or said was so absurd that cracking jokes about it became a serious challenge. How do you come up with a fictional scenario that is more over the top than actual reality.

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That’s how it works.

The first day you go to work in a sewer the stench is overwhelming. By the sixth week you can eat lunch next to your work station.

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The only part that is oniony is that it makes me cry

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Irony died circa 2016.

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Funny how they don’t even see the whole golden calf, false idol aspect of this.

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Well I mean, as far as idols go, he’s about as false as they come.

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He’s also an orangery gold color and he loves gold.

Come on if there is a god when will they start the smiting?

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Would be nice, they already made the graven image

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Hahaha. Flip flops lol

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I’d smash.

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Mooby!

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E’s not the messiah! E’s a very naughty boy!

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Couldn’t help but think of the Ebeneezer Goode song https://youtu.be/7b2T8K2D-ps

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