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"What In Heaven's Name Is A Dominionist?" Pat Robertson asked on his 700 Club TV show, one of several religious right figures to recently pretend there was nothing to the notion.

Funny he should ask.

In a 1984 speech in Dallas, Texas, he said:

"What do all of us do? We get ready to take dominion! We get ready to take dominion! It is all going to be ours - I'm talking about all of it. Everything that you would say is a good part of the secular world. Every means of communication, the news, the television, the radio, the cinema, the arts, the government, the finance - it's going to be ours! God's going to give it to His people. We should prepare to reign and rule with Jesus Christ."



Furthermore, C Peter Wagner, the intellectual godfather of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), actually wrote a book called Dominion! in 2008.

Chapter Three was entitled “Dominion Theology”. When pressed, Peter likes to pretend that his ideas are just garden-variety Christianity, based on Genesis 1:26, in which, before the fall, God gives Adam and Eve dominion over the natural world - a far cry from dominion over other people, who did not even exist at the time, as evangelical critics of this dominionist argument have repeatedly pointed out.


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Dominionist ideas have circulated throughout the religious right for decades prior to Robertson's 1984 speech.

A primary source was the small but influential sect known as Christian Reconstructionism, founded by R J Rushdoony in the 1960s, which advocates replacing American law with Old Testament codes.

Centrists like Miller make the mistake of thinking that the small size of Rushdoony's core of true believers is the full extent of his influence. But this is utterly mistaken.

As Michelle Goldberg wrote in Daily Beast, “Rushdoony pioneered the Christian homeschooling movement, as well as the revisionist history, ubiquitous on the religious right, that paints the US as a Christian nation founded on biblical principles. He consistently defended Southern slavery and contrasted it with the greater evils of socialism.”









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I suggest you move to an Islamic nation under Sharia and after a few years write a book explaining the good life you have.
 
A second source traces back to the roots of the Latter Rain movement of the late 1940s, long rejected by orthodox evangelicals because they contradicted scripture and denied primary agency to God - which is why they insist that Christians must actively establish church dominance over all of society, because God can't do it alone.


The Latter Rain was denounced by the Assemblies of God - the largest American Pentecostal church - in 1949, not solely for dominionist ideology, but for a variety of related beliefs and practices. When similar teachings and practices re-emerged in the guise of the New Apostolic Reformation 50 years later, the Assemblies of God denounced them again in 2000.

This time, however, many Assemblies of God congregations have increasingly accepted the NAR influence. Sarah Palin's long-time church in Wasilla is one such congregation.


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The most clear-cut example of NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) dominionism is the so-called “Seven Mountains Mandate”, which holds that dominionist Christians should control the whole world by infiltrating and dominating the “Seven Mountains” of culture:

(1) Business;
(2) Government;
(3) Media;
(4) Arts and Entertainment;
(5) Education;
(6) Family; and
(7) Religion.





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A number of authors made charges similar to or derived from Joe Carter, web editor of First Things, who wrote: "The term ["dominionism"] was coined in the 1980s by [sociologist Sara] Diamond and is never used outside liberal blogs and websites. No reputable scholars use the term for it is a meaningless neologism that Diamond concocted for her dissertation."

However, at the same time Diamond was working on her dissertation - published as the book Spiritual Warfare in 1989 - evangelical writer/researcher Albert James Dager was taking similarly critical aim, though from a different direction.

In 1986 and '87, he published a multi-issue essay “Kingdom Theology” in the publication Media Spotlight.

In that text he also used the terms "Kingdom Now" or "Dominion" Theology. In 1990, Dager, too, published a book, Vengeance Is Ours: The Church in Dominion.

While his main focus was doctrinal error and non-Christian practices and influences, Dager's work traced dominionism back to the 1940s and even earlier.








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Many more have followed in his footsteps since then. If you Google the words “dominionism” and “heresy”, you'll get more than half a million hits.

It should be obvious to anyone that conventional conservative Christians have big problems with dominionism - if only media could figure out how to use Google.



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Researcher Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates provided a very useful guide, “The Christian Right, Dominionism, and Theocracy”, which addresses issues of terminology from several different perspectives - for example, between “generic dominionism” and specific dominion theologies.

Berlet also draws a distinction between “hard” and “soft” dominionists.

“Soft Dominionists are Christian nationalists,” he writes. “They believe that Biblically-defined immorality and sin breed chaos and anarchy. They fear that America's greatness as God's chosen land has been undermined by liberal secular humanists, feminists, and homosexuals ... Their vision has elements of theocracy, but they stop short of calling for supplanting the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

Hard Dominionists add something more to the mix: “They want the United States to be a Christian theocracy. For them the Constitution and Bill of Rights are merely addendums to Old Testament Biblical law.”


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Rushdoony's Christian Reconstructionists clearly fall into the hard dominionist camp. But the NAR seems to straddle the soft/hard division.

On the one hand, they clearly do claim that conservative Christians are ordained to run the world, not just US society. Thus, the Seven Mountains Mandate.

On the other hand, Wagner and others have argued that the Seven Mountains is compatible with democracy.

The state of Hawaii shows how: Early in the 2010 election cycle, both the Republican and the Democratic frontrunners for governor were associated with the NAR. That changed when long-time Congressman Neil Abercrombie joined the race on the Democratic side, and eventually won the race handily.

But for a while, the NAR came tantalizingly close to realizing their dream, at least in one state - not just to win power, but to occupy all the possible paths to power.


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There are very immediate consequences that flow from the theocratic mindset.


You'll note, for example, that the "Seven Mountains" of culture do not include science.


That's not because dominionists intend to leave science alone, but rather because they see no need to dominate what they can simply cut off, ignore and deny.

If science tells them that homosexuality is an inborn trait, why fight that in the realm of science when politics, the media, religion and education offer much, much better places to fight?


After all, who says that education has to be based on facts?


The same holds true for evolution and global warming as well, not to mention the workings of the economy.


One rightwing denier of dominionist influence, Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, even framed his attack as “An unholy war on the Tea Party, while another denier complained that instead of describing the Tea Party as a movement united around concern about big government, many journalists seem to be trying to redefine the color red by overlaying religious intent and purpose on the movement.




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Yet the dominionist connection to the Tea Party goes far beyond just the two candidacies of Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry.

Ron Paul, whose extreme anti-government positions helped to fuel the emergence of the Tea Party, has much deeper dominionist connections than either of the two new darlings.

During his first term in Congress, one of his aides was Gary North, Rushdoony's son-in-law, and a leading Reconstructionist in his own right, who has written extensively on so-called "Biblical Capitalism", an ideology profoundly at odds with traditional Biblical-based teachings on economic justice.


While libertarians once traced their descent from John Locke, and more recently from the deeply anti-Christian Ayn Rand, Reconstructionism represents an increasingly important foundation for their views.

A recently released sociology study, "Cultures of the Tea Party", found that Tea Party supporters are characterized by four dispositions: "authoritarianism, ontological insecurity, libertarianism, and nativism".


Since traditional libertarianism was purportedly the opposite of authoritarianism, this highlights how radically libertarianism has changed - a conclusion that's echoed by the 2011 Pew Research Political Typology Poll, which found that religious and economic conservatives had completely merged into one single group since 2006 and all previous polling.



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What this means in the long run is far from clear. But it strongly suggests a solidifying outlook with deep Reconstructionist sympathies that actually looks at government failure to deal with major issues, such as restoring the economy, as a positive good.

If faith in American institutions collapses entirely, then who wouldn't give Biblical law a shot?

The more loudly such people proclaim themselves patriots, the more loudly they cheer for US collapse.

It's not just Obama they want to fail.

It's the very idea of America.


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With Representative Michele Bachmann's victory in the Ames, Iowa straw poll, and Texas Governor Rick Perry's triumphal entrance into the GOP presidential primary, there's been a sudden spike of attention drawn to the extremist religious beliefs both candidates have been associated with - up to and including their belief in Christian dominionism. (In the Texas Observer, the New Yorker, and the Daily Beast, for example.)


The responses of denial from both the religious right have been so incongruous as to be laughable - if only the subject matter weren't so deadly serious.


Those responses need to be answered, but more importantly, we need to have the serious discussion they want to prevent.


For example, in an August 18 post, originally entitled, “Beware False Prophets who Fear Evangelicals”, Washington Post religion blogger Lisa Miller cited the three stories I just mentioned, and admitted, “The stories raise real concerns about the world views of two prospective Republican nominees”, then immediately reversed direction: “But their echo-chamber effect reignites old anxieties among liberals about evangelical Christians. Some on the left seem suspicious that a firm belief in Jesus equals a desire to take over the world.”


Of course, she cited no examples to bolster this narrative-flipping claim.


More importantly, she wrote not one more word about the real concerns she had just admitted.



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Sharia is a set of 5th century Islamic laws which call for brutal and harsh punishments for not following the edicts of the religion. That in itself, is contradictory to American freedom of religion under the Constitution. Furthermore, it calls for DEATH to women who disobey their husbands, or 'shame' them by not covering their heads in public and walking behind them. Sharia doesn't tolerate homosexuality or promiscuous behavior of any kind, and again, the punishment is often death or stoning (a punishment which makes you wish you were dead first, then kills you.) Every aspect of Sharia goes against everything we have come to know as 'civil rights' or 'human rights' in America. The very idea that YOU would be here advocating Sharia, shows what a total and complete retarded moron you are. Do you believe they will spare you since you stood up for Sharia? You would likely lose your head before you could get the word "agnostic" or "Atheist" out of your pathetic mouth. These people have ZERO tolerance for heathens like you, and under Sharia, you non-religious scum-maggots would cease to exist.
 
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