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	The Reverend Mr Stackpole represents a fundamentalist splinter schism of the [[Om]]nian Church which is active in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. The Latter-Day Church of [[Om]] is a schismatic group from the mainstream Omnian church, composed of religious zealots who cling to the old notion that the Discworld is really a sphere, this causes problems in {{SOD4}}, where he leads a movement to seek a ruling from [[Vetinari]] to force the university to cede ownership of the [[Roundworld]] to them. It says much for Stackpole's [[Vorbis]]-lite mentality that not even a direct manifestation of the god Om is sufficient to change Stackpole's view - not even after the God makes his own views perfectly clear on the matter. Stackpole takes the view that his God has evidently got it wrong and therefore cannot be trusted with matters of theology. A mind-set he shares with [[Dios\|High Priests]] and [[Vorbis\|those of a Grand Vizier turn of mind]] around the Disc who are charged with interpreting the [[The gods\|God]]'s revelations and defining for the Faithful what the Deity actually ''meant'' to say.		The Reverend Mr Stackpole represents a fundamentalist splinter schism of the [[Om]]nian Church which is active in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. The [[Church of the Latter-Day Omnians\|Latter-Day Church of Om]] is a schismatic group from the mainstream Omnian church, composed of religious zealots who cling to the old notion that the Discworld is really a sphere, this causes problems in {{SOD4}}, where he leads a movement to seek a ruling from [[Vetinari]] to force the university to cede ownership of the [[Roundworld]] to them. It says much for Stackpole's [[Vorbis]]-lite mentality that not even a direct manifestation of the god Om is sufficient to change Stackpole's view - not even after the God makes his own views perfectly clear on the matter. Stackpole takes the view that his God has evidently got it wrong and therefore cannot be trusted with matters of theology. A mind-set he shares with [[Dios\|High Priests]] and [[Vorbis\|those of a Grand Vizier turn of mind]] around the Disc who are charged with interpreting the [[The gods\|God]]'s revelations and defining for the Faithful what the Deity actually ''meant'' to say.

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The Reverend Mr Stackpole represents a fundamentalist splinter schism of the [[Om]]nian Church which is active in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. The Latter-Day Church of [[Om]] is a schismatic group from the mainstream Omnian church, composed of religious zealots who cling to the old notion that the Discworld is really a sphere, this causes problems in {{SOD4}}, where he leads a movement to seek a ruling from [[Vetinari]] to force the university to cede ownership of the [[Roundworld]] to them. It says much for Stackpole's [[Vorbis]]-lite mentality that not even a direct manifestation of the god Om is sufficient to change Stackpole's view - not even after the God makes his own views perfectly clear on the matter. Stackpole takes the view that his God has evidently got it wrong and therefore cannot be trusted with matters of theology. A mind-set he shares with [[Dios|High Priests]] and [[Vorbis|those of a Grand Vizier turn of mind]] around the Disc who are charged with interpreting the [[The gods|God]]'s revelations and defining for the Faithful what the Deity actually ''meant'' to say.

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