To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters.

Seeing therefore these Canons do bind as they are edicts of Nature, which the Jews observing as yet unwritten, and thereby framing such Churchorders as in their Law were not prescribed, are notwithstanding in that respect unculpable

The whole thing sounds Trumpian because it is. The Trump campaign was unabashed in 2016 and beyond about its plan to “flood the zone” with garbage or ragebait. The strategy worked in part because it engaged and energized his base.

That's bare stupid.