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* PropagandaMachine: Creator/FoxNewsChannel, which in this story becomes [[DoubleSpeak Fox Faith & Freedom News]], or F3.
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* PropagandaMachine: Creator/FoxNewsChannel, Fox News Channel, which in this story becomes [[DoubleSpeak Fox Faith & Freedom News]], or F3.
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** That said, this is not entirely unrealistic. Several modern day American minority denominations, namely offshoots of fundamentalist groups, actually ''do'' have these exact kinds of Covenant(s).
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Were Christians being persecuted In Universe before the coup? If not, then this isn't an example.
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* PersecutionFlip: Religious persecution is flipped as Evangelical Christians in America are the ones persecuting intellectuals, homosexuals, and non-believers while they turn America into a "Christian" theocracy.
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* PersecutionFlip: Religious persecution is flipped as Evangelical Christians in America are the ones persecuting intellectuals intellectuals, homosexuals, and non-believers while they turn America into a "Christian" theocracy.
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* CorruptChurch: Evangelical Christianity going so far as to abolish the separation of church and state and declaring a "holy war" on the last holdouts of American democracy and freedom, eventually calling themselves Church Of God in America. The corruption extends to the point where they will use the technological sector to monitor the activities of all American citizens.
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* CorruptChurch: Evangelical Christianity going so far as to abolish the separation of church and state and declaring a "holy war" on the last holdouts of American democracy and freedom, eventually calling themselves Church Of God in America. The corruption extends to the point where they will use the technological sector surveillance technology to monitor the activities of all American citizens.
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* CorruptChurch: Evangelical Christianity going so far as to abolish the separation of church and state and declaring a "holy war" on the last holdouts of American democracy and freedom, eventually calling themselves Church Of God in America.
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* CorruptChurch: Evangelical Christianity going so far as to abolish the separation of church and state and declaring a "holy war" on the last holdouts of American democracy and freedom, eventually calling themselves Church Of God in America. The corruption extends to the point where they will use the technological sector to monitor the activities of all American citizens.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Blessings]] he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasphemousBoast claiming to be]] on [[AGodAmI the same level as Jesus]].
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** PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Blessings]] he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasphemousBoast claiming to be]] on [[AGodAmI the same level asJesus]].Jesus]].
** Also you have to belong to a certain group of Christianity to believe that Dominion Theology is what the Bible teaches, and that all Christians even believe in this.
** PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Blessings]] he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasphemousBoast claiming to be]] on [[AGodAmI the same level as
** Also you have to belong to a certain group of Christianity to believe that Dominion Theology is what the Bible teaches, and that all Christians even believe in this.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Theocratic America has virtually no friends on the global front. Only Israel maintains relations with them and even they think they're nutters.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: America increasingly becomes this amongst its allies as the Palin and then Jordan government moves towards theocracy, eventually fully cutting ties with it after the country massacres a gay district of San Francisco and calls it "divine justice". The only country that maintains friendly ties with it even after this is Israel, and even then the Israelis look askance at them because Jordan's government admits thay they only support Israel's existence as a key trigger to the Second Coming.
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* TheOathbreaker: Jordan's government announces that as part of the Fifty Blessings America shall no longer support any international treaties and agreements, including both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the NATO treaty which it was a major signatory of.
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* PersecutedIntellectuals: Universities and schools are forced to promote creationism and teachers who refuse to toe the party line are fired, arrested and even killed.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Everyone who can see which way the wind is blowing and have the means to do so begin to flee America in the hundreds. LGBT+ people in particular begin a mass exodus from the country
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Blessings]] he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasphemousBoast claiming to be on the same level as Jesus]].
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Blessings]] he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasphemousBoast claiming to be be]] on [[AGodAmI the same level as Jesus]].
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Plessings]], Blessings]] he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasphemousBoast claiming to be on the same level as Jesus]].
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Plessings]], he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasplemousBoast claiming to be on the same level as Jesus]].
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Plessings]], he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasplemousBoast [[BlasphemousBoast claiming to be on the same level as Jesus]].
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PresidentEvil Steve Jordan would be considered TheHeretic by any theologically orthodox Christian. In Christianity, Jesus arranged the New Covenant, which was God's final agreement with humanity which superseded the Old Covenant(s). But when President Jordan announces [[DystopianEdict The Fifty Plessings]], he declares it a second Covenant. In other words, he's [[BlasplemousBoast claiming to be on the same level as Jesus]].
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Compare ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', a similar speculative political novel featuring an oppressive, near-future American government with its own LaResistance valiantly fighting back ... but from a politically opposite standpoint and ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' where the USA also becomes a dystopian theocracy for different reasons.
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Compare ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', a similar speculative political novel featuring an oppressive, near-future American government with its own LaResistance valiantly fighting back ... but from a politically opposite standpoint standpoint; and ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale''. where the USA also becomes a dystopian theocracy for different reasons.
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Compare ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', a similar speculative political novel featuring an oppressive, near-future American government with its own LaResistance valiantly fighting back ... but from a politically opposite standpoint and ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' where the USA becomes also becomes a dystopian theocracy for different reasons.
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Compare ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', a similar speculative political novel featuring an oppressive, near-future American government with its own LaResistance valiantly fighting back ... but from a politically opposite standpoint.
standpoint and ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' where the USA becomes also becomes a dystopian theocracy for different reasons.
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* SecondAmericanCivilWar: Happens when New York and 22 other states--the Secular Bloc--attempt to secede from the Union after it becomes clear that the Fifty Blessings came to stay.
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* SecondAmericanCivilWar: Happens when New York and 22 several other states--the Secular Bloc--attempt to secede from the Union after it becomes clear that the Fifty Blessings came to stay.
