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"Jesus Guns Babies" -- Republican campaign slogan imitates parody
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kandiss-taylor-campaign-sign_n_628b230ae4b0edd2d017b753Republican Candidate’s Bonkers Campaign Sign Has Everyone Puzzled
A Republican candidate seeking the party’s nomination for governor in Georgia held an event with a “Jesus Guns Babies” sign on her bus as she insisted that the state is a Christian theocracy.
“We’re gonna do a political rally and we’re gonna honor Jesus,” Kandiss Taylor said on Sunday, then dismissed any notion of separation of church and state.
Used to be, reductio ad absurdum was a technique for parody. As with any deviant subculture, whoever expresses the most extreme version of the groups identity and tropes quickly ascends to leadership within the group.
“We are the church,” she said. “We run this state.”
She launched into a confusing explanation about how the church, as a business, can’t control the government “monetarily,” but that the church’s people do in fact control the government.
“We are the church, and if it’s of, by and for the people, the church runs the state of Georgia,” Taylor said. “This is our state. We decide what happens.”
I fully expect this to end in a rerun of the 30 Years War.
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Response to Bucky (Original post)
Where they're playing a hockey game and half the audience is shouting "KILL BART!" and the other half of the audience is shouting "KILL, BART!".
