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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 12:37 PM Jan 2018

From an article about Iran but sure sounds like the evangelicals

"Iran’s conservatives are imbued with an ideology that views the essential purpose of the state as the realization of God’s will on Earth. Such an exalted task mandates the assumption of power not by tentative moderates but devout revolutionaries. Given such ideological inclinations, the hardliners are utterly contemptuous of democratic accountability and are unconcerned about their loss of popularity and widespread dissatisfaction with theocratic rule. The legitimacy of state does not rest on the collective will but on a mandate from heaven."

Scary crap.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/02/the-islamic-republic-of-iran-is-doomed-216210?lo=ap_f1

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From an article about Iran but sure sounds like the evangelicals (Original Post) Va Lefty Jan 2018 OP
I could hear the same crap being spewed by a right wing "religous" nut job here Javaman Jan 2018 #1

Javaman

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1. I could hear the same crap being spewed by a right wing "religous" nut job here
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 12:56 PM
Jan 2018

if they ever got into office.

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