A good page on Dominionism. Look at the links in the essay

alfredo

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A good page on Dominionism. Look at the links in the essay

the video link is quite revealing. Only the audio is posted at this time.

http://www.mainstreambaptists.org/dominionism.htm

With the exception of the call to close prisons, significant steps toward the kind of reforms that they envision are already being made in our society. What they have been able to accomplish has been done by their allying themselves with the Republican party and other conservative Christians and working through the political process. One of those who taught them how to work through the political process was Paul Pressler, an appellate court judge in Houston who was the chief architect of the Fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Reconstructionists realize that, sooner or later, there is bound to be a backlash against the kind of society that they intend to create. Many of the people in the anti-abortion terrorist underground � the people who bomb abortion clinics and shoot abortion providers -- are Reconstructionists who have grown impatient with the slow pace of reform through involvement in the political process. They are already taking the law into their own hands.

Most Reconstructionists seem to be biding their time until public sentiment turns decisively against the kind of reforms they are seeking. When that happens, I believe that some, if given the opportunity, will be willing to take up arms and wage another civil war. Their literature indicates that they believe that their actions can be morally and theologically justified if they can follow a lesser magistrate who claims to follow biblical law while refusing to submit to a rule of law that is imposed by a secular constitutional authority. It appears to me that Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore has been trying to spark this kind of crisis for the past several years with his plaques and monuments to the ten commandments.

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Kipling

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Tue Jun-07-05 02:14 PM
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1. Scary stuff.

Good luck Americans. You may need it.

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alfredo

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Tue Jun-07-05 02:31 PM
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2. the way they talk

if the religious right doesn't get its way, bloodshed will follow.

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Tyler Durden

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Tue Jun-07-05 02:49 PM
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5. And...?

What's your dilemma?

Hasn't it ALWAYS been this way?

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alfredo

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Tue Jun-07-05 04:47 PM
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11. sure it's always been this way, but this time they have

near total control of our government.

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RaleighNCDUer

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Tue Jun-07-05 02:38 PM
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3. You know it. Y'all went through the same thing in the 17th century

with fundamentalist Cromwell and his Parlimentarians dragging your country into civil war.

The American revolution and the principle of separating church and state can be traced directly to their ancestors' experience of that previous century.

Most Americans don't know that, however, because while we may be taught a smattering of world history, essentially, for Americans, history begins in 1776.

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alfredo

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Tue Jun-07-05 02:46 PM
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4. The only history the bush bots want taught is through the eyes

of the theocrats.

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CJCRANE

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Tue Jun-07-05 02:56 PM
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6. It seems like these

people basically want a Christian version of Saudi Arabia. If that happened there would be no need for the current double-speak about "spreading freedom".

"Spreading the word", "it is God's Will" and "smiting the sinners/unbelievers" would then become sufficient justification.

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Rex

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Tue Jun-07-05 03:02 PM
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7. What is it with people who worship the Prince of Peace?

Fundamentalist swim in the blood of the innocent.

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Tux

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Tue Jun-07-05 03:09 PM
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8. It's fear

They want power and believe God gave them that power. Wasn't Jesus offered some kingdoms and refused them so he would have spiritual power over political power? Where does it say Jesus told them to rule the world and kill everyone who disagrees? MI Militia is still around so we have some allies. Yes, strange allies but they are against the freepers too.

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CJCRANE

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Tue Jun-07-05 03:14 PM
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9. Isn't it also strange

that the country which provided most of the 9/11 hijackers and most of the funding for it gets a free pass and are considered "allies"...

and that rightwing Christians praised 9/11 as being God's revenge...

and that rightwing Christians want to turn America into a Christian version of that very same county...?

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Tux

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Tue Jun-07-05 03:29 PM
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10. And yet

Fight Muslims, same religion as terrorists, over their religion and oil.

Disrespect the Quran and violate human rights while saying a group of human cells need to be protected.

And

RWers hate welfare yet praise faith-based welfare.

Very odd. Now I know why I left the church of christ.

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