• ULS@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    The power of Christ?

    Wanting power sounds unholy.

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      10 months ago

      The power and the freedom to hurt people who do things they don’t like in the privacy of their home or property.

    • Headofthebored @lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Oughta give him a copy of one of those “literacy tests” they used to make black people take in order to vote back in the day that had confusing questions with subjective answers you could fail if the white person grading it felt like you did.

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      10 months ago

      They’ve been doing that without impunity for checks watch about 2000 years now. So much so that you just mention Catholicism in the same sentence as “choir boy” and everyone knows what you’re talking about.

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    10 months ago

    He also told them that they’d “win so much that would get tired of winning”.

    And then he proceeded to lose an election and multiple court cases.

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    10 months ago

    It should be illegal to say that any religion will have extra political power if you get elected. That should not be protected free speech. It literally violates the constitution.

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    10 months ago

    Will they reach the Avatar state? Some sort of X-Men power? The power of imagination, strong enough to reach a delusional state of full denial of reality? The possibilities!