Q: why was the beast given a mouth ‘to boast and to blaspheme and to exercise dumb (unethical + incompetent) authority’?

https://books.google.com/books?id=nLwOqKYfhXgC&pg=PA154&dq=the+beast+was+given+a+mouth+to+boast+and+to+blaspheme+and+to+exercise+authority&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUucr3lvzRAhVFQyYKHcwdAhQQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=the%20beast%20was%20given%20a%20mouth%20to%20boast%20and%20to%20blaspheme%20and%20to%20exercise%20authority&f=false

in other words

Revelation

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The Catholic Comparative New Testament

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Q1: why was the beast given a mouth ‘to boast and to blaspheme’?

A1: to ‘see’ whose ears are tickled

Q2: why was the beast allowed ‘to exercise authority’?

A2: to ‘see’ who (votes for) follows the clown

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U.S. Department of Justice,

Q: where does JESUS go to exorcise?

By Gustave Doré — http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8710/8710-h/p7.htm#077, Public Domain,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3523289

A: earth!

p.s.

The invitation

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chew! chew! [eat God’s Mail]

and

do! do! [exorcise (right wrongs)]