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Originally Posted by khorboth
This is well for Angels. But demons are more unfortunate in their oversight, and if they catch the big guy on a bad day they get a bad word. What about the unfortunate demon of Disestablismentarianism?
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Well, the word isn't as big as it was in its heyday, but there's still work for him. Disestablishments of state churches in the last half-century include Norway in 2017, Bolivia in 2009, Sweden in 2000, Paraguay in 1992, Haiti in 1987, Italy in 1985, Spain in 1978, Cyprus in 1977, and Ethiopia in 1974. Denmark (including the Faeroes and Greenland), England, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, and Tuvalu all have state churches, and at least some face disestablishment movements.
And there are things short of a classic established church that resemble one in a wide variety of other countries (e.g. cases of religions other than Christianity, state financial support without official status, official status without state financial support, various specific privileges, various ceremonial and symbolic supports). It seems likely that the Word of Disestablismentarianism would conceptually cover efforts to eliminate those things, too, and the the demon is a fan of, for example, the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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Originally Posted by khorboth
Or... The demon of stuck chariot wheels? Or the demon of thrown horseshoes? or of tangled togas? The book example was stale bong water, but surely there were some in the past equally unfortunate.
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The real by-the-book example isn't Stale Bong Water (he's just trivial), but the Demon of Buggy Whips -- who died from Word decay, per the GMG, p.31. Per p.29 of the same book, celestials who are dying because their words are dying are sometimes saved by their Superior taking them to the Seraphim Council/Lucifer to get them unbound.