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hunter

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12. Does the power arise in the religion, or from churches that allow those in power to use them?

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 02:31 PM

Sep 2019

It's a chicken or egg problem.

Which came first, racist authoritarian Christian support of the Republican Party, or vice versa?

Which came first, the Russian Orthodox Church's support of Putin's political machine or vice versa?

Which came first, Saudi support of Wahhabism or vice versa?

Authoritarian regimes frequently end up utilizing the authoritarian aspects of local or regional religions in morbid codependency.

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