"Dominionism" - Correction Please
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Mon Apr 11, 2016 at 09:56:13 AM EST
Correction Sent to Christianity Today, April 11, 2016

Regarding the article:
"Stop Calling Ted Cruz a Dominionist:
The Christian candidate's faith influences his platform, but not in the ways most critics assume."

by Robert Gagnon and Edith Humphrey, April 6, 2016

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/april-web-only/stop-call ing-ted-cruz-dominionist.html?start=1

I have discussed this matter with Sara Diamond and she refutes the claim that she ever used the term "dominionism," and it does not appear in her book Spiritual Warfare.

See pages 138 and 238 for her discussion of "Dominion Theology" as facilitating the politicization of the Christian Right.

Diamond refers to this on page 138 as "Dominion Hegemony."

Fred Clarkson and I coined the term "Dominionism" to refer to the politicization of the Christian Right as influenced by Dominion Theology such as in the Christian Reconstructionist movement. See: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/8/31/17047/5683/Front_Page/ How_We_Coined_the_term_quot_Dominionism_quot_ Sincerely, -Chip Berlet




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Sat at table with father Cruz and heard him speak twice in person.  If he is not into Dominion theology, he is the closest thing to it I ever heard in person.
     On the next page Diamond connects Gary North to the John Birch Society.  Interesting the JBS is raging about Mrs. Ted Cruz belonging to the Council on Foreign Relations.    

by wilkyjr on Mon Apr 11, 2016 at 08:53:23 PM EST

"If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then maybe it's a duck!"

I didn't read the article (I get enough of that sort of cr*p around here), but from what you've written, it sounds like the explosions I've heard/seen from local Christians when called on their dominionist stuff (and not just by me).  Stuff like "We have to take back America for Jesus" and "People must be made to obey authority especially God's" and (if you'll excuse the language) "O'ballah is a Muslim and full of the spirit of antichrist!".  Oh, and "how ebil Mooslems, atheists, Jews, and debil-worshipping pagans are!!!"  and "We must send those horrible illegal immigrants back home and keep people from going over to that horrible, librul, demon-ridden Europe because they might catch some and bring them back!".

Seriously, just as I've experienced in this hellhole, they'll do anything they can to keep people from knowing their true faces, and what they REALLY stand for.

Please be careful.


by ArchaeoBob on Tue Apr 12, 2016 at 11:08:37 AM EST


In discussions with fellow progressives about the pros and cons of the presidential candidates, I've shared my unease about Hillary Clinton's connection to the dominionists. When nobody else remembered the connection, I went to the Net to dig out the articles. I can find the Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet Mother Jones piece from 2007 and related BeliefNet and Daily Kos mentions, but nothing since.

Did her behavior (and the associations) change or did the traditional secrecy of The Family just assert its will?

by Jocelyn on Tue Apr 12, 2016 at 02:01:09 PM EST

I know what you mean.  I've made a couple of Democrats really angry at me when I refer to her as "Republican Lite" and they REALLY don't like being reminded about the "Take Back America for Jesus" bunch (they desperately try to hold onto the idea that it's all about money rather than religious ideology and contradicting them is asking for an explosion).  

I think that the dread "s" word connected  with Bernie Sanders is part of it... people have such a programmed knee-jerk reaction to the word socialism (and very few people understand what it really means).  They've been programmed to associate the word with pure evil and forget that many of the freedoms and rights they have are connected with the idea that society is responsible for the people in it.

by ArchaeoBob on Tue Apr 12, 2016 at 06:32:09 PM EST
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They will disavow such descriptions even as they preach it. They understand quite well that words are important. But a Dominionist by any other name still wants to enslave you. What Shakespeare was on about as one understands the essence of the subject calling it by any other name changes it not one jot or tittle. Yet certain numbers seems to believe that if you change the name from "jungle" to "rain forest" it is altered in some way. It isn't and neither are Dominionists and their allies.

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"faith influences candidate's platform, but not in the ways most critics assume". Should faith influence people when they make important political choices in any way? I'm not an expert, I'm just a citizen who earns living by academic writing services reviews making, but I'm sure that in 20th century politics must be completely separated from religion. Why we still use words like "theology" and "dominionism" in today's political discourse?

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