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The Religious Right is well known for its regressive social activism, but less publicized is the role it has played in the war against progressive economic policy, labor unions, the regulatory structure and social safety net.
The righteousness of laissez-faire capitalism predates the Tea Party movement and has been a major theme of fundamentalists for more than three decades.
The Tea Party's "Christian Libertarianism" is a creative repackaging of narratives that have become increasingly popular over the last three decades.
These narratives blend radical free market ideology with theocratic ideology.
In other words, regulatory powers of the federal government would be eradicated and the void would be filled and society controlled through adherence to biblical law.
Theocratic Libertarianism may sound like an oxymoron, but it is a growing phenomenon with narratives that can be traced to the ideology of the late Rousas J. Rushdoony, who took Ayn Rand-type free market fundamentalism and repackaged it as a biblical mandate, thus literally demonizing competing economic philosophies.
Rushdoony is the father of what is called Christian Reconstructionism.
While he is not a household name, he is considered the father of modern homeschooling and the source of much of the the agenda of today's Religious Right and Tea Party movements.
Perhaps most importantly, Rushdoony provided much of the ideological foundation for "Christian dominionism" or the belief that his brand of Christianity must take "dominion" or control over government and society.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/2/1/132159/0192
The righteousness of laissez-faire capitalism predates the Tea Party movement and has been a major theme of fundamentalists for more than three decades.
The Tea Party's "Christian Libertarianism" is a creative repackaging of narratives that have become increasingly popular over the last three decades.
These narratives blend radical free market ideology with theocratic ideology.
In other words, regulatory powers of the federal government would be eradicated and the void would be filled and society controlled through adherence to biblical law.
Theocratic Libertarianism may sound like an oxymoron, but it is a growing phenomenon with narratives that can be traced to the ideology of the late Rousas J. Rushdoony, who took Ayn Rand-type free market fundamentalism and repackaged it as a biblical mandate, thus literally demonizing competing economic philosophies.
Rushdoony is the father of what is called Christian Reconstructionism.
While he is not a household name, he is considered the father of modern homeschooling and the source of much of the the agenda of today's Religious Right and Tea Party movements.
Perhaps most importantly, Rushdoony provided much of the ideological foundation for "Christian dominionism" or the belief that his brand of Christianity must take "dominion" or control over government and society.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/2/1/132159/0192