Dominionism – A Christian plot to run America
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Dominionism and Christian reconstructionists
Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry are believers
Dominionism, in the context of politics and religion, is the tendency among some politically active conservative Christians to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action, especially in the United States. The goal is either a nation governed by Christians, or a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law.
Put simply, follows of Dominionism believe they have a God-given right to rule. GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry have a history of being affiliated with Christian Reconstructionists, such as Perry’s relationship with New Apostolic Reformation and Bachmann’s relationship to John Eidsmoe, an Oral Roberts University professor, and nationalist historian David Barton who are both Christian Reconstructionists.
The origins of Dominionism – R. J. Rushdoony
Dominionism derives from a small fringe sect called Christian Reconstructionism, founded by a Calvinist theologian named R. J. Rushdoony in the 1960s. According to Rushdoony and other Reconstructionists including Gary North and Greg Bahnsen, the idea of dominion drawn from Genesis 1:28 implied a theonomy (“rule of the law of God”), which would require all citizens to observe the strict Reconstructionist form of Christianity, and which would punish moral sins ranging from blasphemy to homosexuality with death. Rushdoony wrote that “man is summoned to create the society God requires . . . bringing all things under the dominion of Christ the King.”
An integral part of the message put forward by Dominionism is to conquer the seven mountains of society, or the seven mountains of culture, if they are to impact any nation for Jesus Christ. The seven mountains are business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, the family and religion.
This from Discerning the World
“The devil seems to be winning new ground while the Church of Christ retreats even further into its sanctuaries hoping the Lord will come and take us to Heaven out of here! But that is not going to happen, because the ‘Dominion Mandate’ does not include the option to hunker down fearfully in our religious cocoons hoping the bogey man will go away and leave us alone.”
Dominionism – something else to deal with from the right-wing of American politics.
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God’s moral Law has not been repealed. It applies to ALL nations for all time.
John Lofton, Editor, Archive.TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com
There is no “god’s law” because there is no god. Only mental morons would believe in any religion.
So keep your delusions out of my life and out of your politics.
WOW! A world map with circles drawn around each major area and lines pointing to the mid east. Where are the lions and tiger and bears, OH MY?!!!
This used to be a great site with pertinent information and opinion. Now it tends to remind me of the National Enquirer.
Why do you haunt these hallowed halls asshole? You rarely have anything but nastiness to contribute and if you don’t like it here please go the fuck away you ignorant ridge runner.
Thanks. I feel much better now.
Well SH, nice to know you looked at the pictures, did you read any of the words? hardly Enquirer stuff.
SH, it’s just a visual to illustrate Holte’s point. If we were like the Enquirer, our articles would be hyperbolic and emotionally incendiary without fact.
If you don’t like MMA content, you could ask to be a contributor. Constructive criticism can be of great help. But there are other types of critics:
…a true critic… is a discoverer and collector of writers’ … faults, and blemishes, and oversights, and mistakes of other writers… their imaginations are so entirely possessed and replete with the defects of other pens, that the very quintessence of what is bad does of necessity distil into their own… {JS}
Thanks for that Dorothy.
… and this isn’t terrorism?
Nuts don’t scare me. All I see is wishful thinking.
Of all the stories I have read over here this one scares hell out of me, because I can see it happening.
Doesn’t scare me a bit. I’ve never seen any of this sort of nonsense in the Churches I go to, and I’ll be sure to monkey-wrench it if I ever do.
If any ‘Dominionistas’ are looking in, basing their beliefs off of Genesis 1:28, one verse in chapter one of book one on page one of a very loooonnnggg Bible, TURN A FUCKING PAGE ALREADY, DIPSHITS!!
IN my opinion, the two most dangerous movements in the world today, or maybe ever, are christian fundamentalism and muslim fundamentalism. It’s difficult to say which is the greater threat. It would be a civilizing move to suppress both.