Gaia
24th August 2011, 23:26
According to The New Apostolic Reformation "a chain of powerful prophecies had proclaimed that Texas was 'The Prophet State. Both Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry have deep ties to a fringe fundamentalist movement known as Dominionism, which says Christians should rule the world. Dominionism means that Christians have a God-given right to rule all earthly institutions.
Rachel Tabachnick has been reporting on the religious right who among other things want to kill public education.
To be fair, some form of Dominionism has been prominent in the Christian faith since at least Augustine (the idea's most prominent proponent, probably), and it is hardly 'fringe.' But that should give one comfort; if this idea has not been successfully implemented in the West over the past 1600 or so years, years when it was at times acceptable to slaughter or torture people in the free world because of their dissident religious views, it's probably not going to suddenly take off in a major political way because of the likes of Perry and Bachmann.
I don't know about you, but that certain sounds like the open lauding of an ideal of fascist theocracy.
Gaia
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare?sc=fb&cc=fp
http://www.alternet.org/story/152034/meet_the_christian_dominionist_%27prayer_warriors%27_who_have_chosen_rick_perry_as_their_vehicle_to_ power/?page=entire
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare?
Rachel Tabachnick has been reporting on the religious right who among other things want to kill public education.
To be fair, some form of Dominionism has been prominent in the Christian faith since at least Augustine (the idea's most prominent proponent, probably), and it is hardly 'fringe.' But that should give one comfort; if this idea has not been successfully implemented in the West over the past 1600 or so years, years when it was at times acceptable to slaughter or torture people in the free world because of their dissident religious views, it's probably not going to suddenly take off in a major political way because of the likes of Perry and Bachmann.
I don't know about you, but that certain sounds like the open lauding of an ideal of fascist theocracy.
Gaia
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare?sc=fb&cc=fp
http://www.alternet.org/story/152034/meet_the_christian_dominionist_%27prayer_warriors%27_who_have_chosen_rick_perry_as_their_vehicle_to_ power/?page=entire
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare?