• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    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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      21 hours ago

      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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      20 hours ago

      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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        1 day ago

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