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| March Mon, 2025

Thy Name in Vain: How Online Extremists Hijacks ‘Christ is King’

This report focuses on the phrase “Christ is King,” a profound declaration of faith, which is now being weaponized by some political extremists, distorting its meaning to advance exclusionary and hateful narratives. This hijacking of religious language echoes a broader pattern observed in the past decade, where identitarian ideologies—whether in the form of radical DEI initiatives or the excesses of “woke” moral policing—have restructured institutions by imposing rigid ideological conformity under the guise of moral progress.

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