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Greater Satanic Leviathan
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Spiritual Warfare in Your Nation

Postby Greater Satanic Leviathan » Fri Sep 21, 2018 5:24 pm

Spiritual warfare is the practice of praying at people to remove unwanted influences such as those from evil spirits or demons.

In the Greater Satanic Leviathan, we practice spiritual warfare against the enemies of Satan, casting maledictions against foreign peoples and using desecration against areas under the influence of God or his angels or prophets.

Members of other religions are restricted from using spiritual warfare. They can be removed from the vicinity by private security, or if they are on public property by police for obstructing traffic.

However in times of war, leaders of each religion must pray for victory and for the lives and health of the troops, the Lugal of the Leviathan, and the Queen.

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A m e n r i a
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Postby A m e n r i a » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:19 pm

Spiritual warfare exists in the Amenrian military in the form of divine intervention, God-given powers, and truth-based propaganda. Our righteousness is always being proudly shown in battle, with "Allahu Akbar" being a popular kiai in the military.

Non-Muslim Amenrians also practice spiritual warfare. We have some battle monks who are either Shinto or Buddhist and Christian exorcists who often help with cases regarding vampirism, necromancy, and/or werewolves.
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Khataiy
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Postby Khataiy » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:27 pm

Islamic law based on Sharia derived from the Quran, which is regarded as the uncreated infallible speech of God, and the Sunnah, the traditions of Muhammad and his contemporaries. This therefore does allow for state institutions to impose aspects of Islamic law from punishments in crime, to divorces, to indeed spiritual demands including exorcism, all exorcists must be registered by the ministry of Dawah, Awqaf and Research and attend proper classes to comply with the Islamic Sharia as this is an Islamic matter, the ministry of Dawah, Awqaf and Research provides spiritual advice to the government and insures compliance with the Sharia, and in this task regulating business and mosques claiming to proform exorcisms must be comply with the rulings from the government's selected scholars who hold positions among the Shura council directly under President Omar Khairallah, this is done in order to prevent witchcraft and or sorcery.

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Radiatia
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Postby Radiatia » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:30 pm

People who engage in such practices, or believe in such things, are usually dragged off to mental institutions where they belong.

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Postby Cosmopolitan borovan » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:32 pm

Spiritiual Warfare only exists in states with significant Asian communities where there is believed to be evil influences residing within people. In other ethnicities, there is little practiced due to the culture. The person involved in the spiritiual authority would try to hold the person and chant quickly within the recited words while the evil spirit residing in the person would try to resist. The spiritual authority would then suceed and then the person collapses before gaining consciousness.

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Mexico socialista
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Postby Mexico socialista » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:34 pm

In my country the spiritual warfare Is used against any religion because whe are a communist country and also whe whant to expand the ateism to other countries

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Berhakonia
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Postby Berhakonia » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:38 pm

Yes, we have bishops, monks and preists who constantly engage in prayers of wellbeing for the nation and It's citizens.
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Postby Oswyn Islands » Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:27 pm

There is no such thing as “spiritual warfare” in Oswyn Islands.
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Postby Gandoor » Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:59 am

Nonexistent and an almost entirely unheard of concept in our nation. To be expected from a mostly non-religious nation, naturally.
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Postby Silver Commonwealth » Sat Sep 22, 2018 9:06 am

Although religion is often used in war propaganda, and in army itself, spiritual warfare is not that common.
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Workers SFSR
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Postby Workers SFSR » Sat Sep 22, 2018 9:26 am

Practicioners of "spiritual warfare" can expect to get dragged into re-education camps or mental institutions, depending on severity of the delusion. Thankfully, due to decades of anti-religious and scientific propaganda, there are almost no cases of people being engaged in such insane behavior.
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Constitutional Technocracy of Minecraft
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Postby Constitutional Technocracy of Minecraft » Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:27 am

Non-existent in a 96% irreligious nation

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Postby Fatatatutti » Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:35 am

No.

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The New Republic of Manchukuo
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Postby The New Republic of Manchukuo » Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:44 pm

The NMLA and NMRAF practice spiritual warfare for mostly hopefor the other nation

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Northwest Slobovia
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Postby Northwest Slobovia » Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:50 pm

Doubtless some groups in the country stick pins in voodoo dolls or wish ill on others, but such superstitious practices are regarded as ignorant.
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Prussian Polish Commonwealth
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Postby Prussian Polish Commonwealth » Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:56 pm

Uhh... kind of.
Priests(Usually catholic or the occasional Eastern Orthodox) often bless the weapons of the Prussian-Polish military. I'm talking everything from G3 battle rifles to Battlecruisers to ICBMs.
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Dagnia
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Postby Dagnia » Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:12 pm

In Dagnia it can be done in a number of ways, as we are have many faiths. 80% of our population practices a Dagnian form of Rodnovery (Slavic pre-Christian faith), 40% practices Roman Catholicism, 30% practices Eastern (primarily Russian) Orthodoxy, and another 30% practices Buddhism. If you are thinking that means 180% of the population has some form of religion, many people are syncretic and practice multiple faiths simultaneously.
In Rodnovery it is done in ways similar to other pagan faiths, with elaborate ceremonies involving singing, prayers, bells, phallus/wand waving, and fire, in which participants appeal to the gods for help against enemies. Specific enemies may be targeted by burning, stabbing, or ripping a picture, doll, or piece of parchment with the person's name. Christians don't have much beyond mass prayers, and many turn to Rodnovery which is seen as having a more powerful magic. Buddhists generally don't practice any kind of spiritual warfare as Buddhists, however some have borrowed Tibetan and Mongolian practices that may not have ever actually been specified by Buddha.
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Lux Bellorum
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Postby Lux Bellorum » Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:17 pm

Spiritual Warfare in Lux Bellorum is heavily regulated, and only performed by licensed and certified exorcists. Exorcists are usually qualified individuals with degrees in both theoretical and applied theology, and have to undergo a strict certification process before being allowed to perform exorcisms.

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Postby Auzkhia » Sat Sep 22, 2018 4:29 pm

Some military mages do what you have described as "spiritual warfare", it's basically mind control spells and summoning beasts to fight. However, our universe Geneva Convention tried to put limits on it, however, using magic requires you to be up close with the enemy, facing danger if getting shot at point blank.
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Postby Knessniet » Sat Sep 22, 2018 5:48 pm

You could almost say we mastered it.

Our church has it's own militia organization, and is generally used as a massive prayer machine during times of struggle. We can confirm that at full capacity, they can deliver a whopping 30,000 prayers a minute!

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Postby Ungvarnfjall » Sat Sep 22, 2018 5:52 pm

We can raise armies of the undead, bend mortal wills, and alter the world around us with greatly varying degrees of capacity by person.

I'd say we have it here.
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Postby Dreshand » Sat Sep 22, 2018 7:21 pm

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Postby Victorious Decepticons » Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:26 pm

Greater Satanic Leviathan wrote:Spiritual warfare is the practice of praying at people to remove unwanted influences such as those from evil spirits or demons.

*Sniffs disapprovingly* This isn't how we do it at all. It is un-Decepticon to have to call on other entities for aid like this.

WE do spiritual warfare much like any other kind of warfare: Directly, and with well-practiced soldiers and weapons. In this case, the soldiers in question are either outfitted with psychically-effective weaponry, or they are naturals at the art and need no manufactured devices. First, we send in the grunts with the devices, which are often enchanted by experts. If they have no or little success, we send in the naturals. If *they* don't win either, we roust up General Carjack the Genocider, our most skilled natural practitioner. He will be very pissed at having whatever game he was playing interrupted, and will vent that rage upon the enemy and usually win. This victory will be quick, mainly because Carjack will want to go back to playing games, and getting rid of a spiritual enemy ASAP will make that happen sooner.

If all else fails, we call upon our Divine Leader Megatron, who is not some nebulous spiritual entity, but an incarnate robot like the rest of us - but with godly powers. He will not only delete a spiritual enemy, but will likely chase that enemy's spirit into the next realm and cause it a millennia of misery in retribution for its nonsense.

Of course, as Decepticons, we are far from dedicating all of our spiritual warfare to "good." Instead, it is dedicated mostly to raw imperialism. We took over all of the afterlives in our universe once Megatron attained godhood - good, bad, and neutral - mostly because they were there and we could. That said, some of our acquisitions have yielded great resources for us. One of the most notable of these is Hell.

We are currently using the Lake of Fire of our universe's Hell as a giant burner for hundreds of huge smelting pits. Since the Lake keeps burning magically without us ever having to fuel it, using it as a megaburner saves Megatron Metals billions of Cubes of Energon per year in energy costs. Portals set up by the Paranormal Division of the Decepticon Military ensure that it is easy for us to take ore there and bring refined metal back. These portals also handle the conversion of materials from physical to spiritual and back, through the use of top-secret magical methods. We have no trouble with any demonic presence in our Hell, since we dealt with them like we do any other species that doesn't instantly bow to our rule: By exterminating them all. Now, Hell is just another 100% Decepticon-controlled industrial area, and a very lucrative one at that.

All of that said, while we enjoy controlling all of the afterlives and many other dimensions and realms, we put most of our effort onto taking over the physical realm, and this is typically done by standard means of warfare (unless we encounter a magic-using planet or people). This realm is home to most advanced lifeforms, and until we take over each and every planet in it, we do not yet have the total domination of the universe that is our ultimate goal.
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Postby Novo Vaticanus » Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:35 pm

Radiatia wrote:People who engage in such practices, or believe in such things, are usually dragged off to mental institutions where they belong.


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Postby Novo Vaticanus » Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:49 pm

Greater Satanic Leviathan wrote:Spiritual warfare is the practice of praying at people to remove unwanted influences such as those from evil spirits or demons.

In the Greater Satanic Leviathan, we practice spiritual warfare against the enemies of Satan, casting maledictions against foreign peoples and using desecration against areas under the influence of God or his angels or prophets.

Here in Novo Vaticanus™, both the government and the people are very aware of such people and nations as yours, who've dedicated themselves to the ruin of souls in the name of satan. Therefore, there are state-funded legions of men and women who are entirely dedicated to, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, praying for any and all souls which wander away from the flock of God, which is the Body of Christ.

We realize that the grip of sin is tight, so we pour money into actively fighting the good fight, which is spiritual fucking jihad against all that is evil, in the name of the Catholic Church and everything that She stands for.

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