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It needs to get out there...how soon we forget.

We look for answers from our candidates.....and should receive them, imho.

and the boosterism, and lack of questioning is more fit for cult like behavior than a democracy.

They assume 'The Family' is all about RW politics, when the reality is that it's all about religious politics. They don't want all the Repub politicians as members - they want as many politicians as they can get, period, no matter the party. And not just politicians, but every form of power broker in the 'seven mountains'.

Dominionism is the belief that Christians must literally reclaim planet Earth from satan and hold it like an occupying army until Christ's return. This twisted theology targets seven "mountains", or spheres of influence, that must be taken: Church, Family, Education, Arts and Entertainment, Business, Media, and, of course, Government.

At its most extreme, hardcore Dominionists believe that Jesus either will not or can not return until Christians complete this task. This is not scriptural, and because it makes God subject to our actions, it is heretical.

The problem is that these "seven mountains" are not identified anywhere in the Bible. The concept was created by Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade, and Loren Cunningham, founder of Youth With a Mission, during a lunch meeting in 1975. And this is where the rubber begins to meet the road.

Youth With a Mission is connected to a secretive group called The Family, or The Fellowship, which has walked the halls of power around the world for decades. It traces its history back 75 years to a preacher named Abraham Vereide, who'd had a revelation that his mission field was to be men with the means to literally seize the world for God.

In 2009, when South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford publicly confessed his marital infidelity, he mentioned that he'd turned to the C Street House for counseling. C Street is owned by Youth With a Mission and operated by The Family. The four-story red brick townhouse at 133 C Street S.E. provides housing to a number of congressmen and senators in D.C. at rents far below market rates. They hold regular Bible studies and discuss ways to use their power for Christ.

The key word in that sentence is power. Family leader Doug Coe has offered up Hitler, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, and the Mafia as examples of men who knew how to use power well.

The Family isn't some fringe cult group. It has organized the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington every year since the Eisenhower administration. Seats at the breakfast are sold to world leaders in politics and business, offering them invaluable face time with the president of the United States and his closest advisers. Coe has claimed that The Family has access through American embassies that allows his operatives "to move practically anywhere".

you are correct by the way.

And, part of the Big Picture in our Politics that gets forgotten as we now focus on Koch and ALEC...we forget...that THEY are not alone.!

Thanks for posting this.

as these guys, so I have hope.

I just did a quick search for dominionist seven mountains coe, then looked quickly at the top dozen or so pages to find one I knew I'd seen referenced before elsewhere. So the hat tip goes to the guy or gal whose site that came from.