Ralph Reed Claims DOMINIONISM Is A CONSPIRACY THEORY

[Segami]

"...If Dominionism Doesn't Exist, Wagner Needs to Change his Title Endorsing It..."



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When exposed, deny, deny, deny, deny and always remember to DENY!



Political player and disgraced “Right Hand of God” Ralph Reed is now claiming Christian dominionism is “a conspiracy theory largely confined to university faculty lounges and MSNBC studios.” I’m uncertain why anyone even on Reed’s side of the aisle would believe him, given his history of leading his flock astray, but he has found a platform on Patheos Evangelical Portal in what it calls “the first in our Believers, Movers and Shakers series, which will publish original pieces from Christian leaders in the public square each month until the 2012 election.”



Of course, Ralph Reed is hardly the first denialist to surface. We saw A. Larry Ross claim “Christian Dominionism is a Myth” on the Daily Beast on August 21st, claiming it is nothing but a “scare tactic” of the “left” with little basis in truth. We have seen Lisa Miller, Newsweek‘s religion editor, use the Washington Post to reassure readers that, as AlterNet puts it, “ all this talk of dominionism and the GOP is just a paranoid fantasy of the left.” Responding to Rachel Maddow’s words on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on August 10th – “Their goal, world domination, blah blah blah…” Miller says,

Evangelicals generally do not want to take over the world.

“Dominionism” is the paranoid mot du jour. In its broadest sense, the term describes a Christian’s obligation to be active in the world, including in politics and government. More narrowly, some view it as Christian nationalism. You could argue that the 19th- and early 20th-century reformers – abolitionists, suffragists and temperance activists, for example – were dominionists, says Molly Worthen, who teaches religious history at the University of Toronto.

Extremist dominionists do exist, as theocrats who hope to transform our democracy into something that looks like ancient Israel, complete with stoning as punishment. But “it’s a pretty small world,” says Worthen, who studies these groups.

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Miller doesn’t explain or disprove the connection, however, because she can’t make Rick Perry’s supporters disappear in a puff of denialist logic. She can’t suddenly make the connection between the New Apostolic Reformation’s apostles and Rick Perry, Sam Brownback, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Michele Bachmann, and Jim DeMint, and Rick Santorum go away. They happened. They’re real. It’s pretty striking that Miller’s “pretty small world” has connections with such high-power Republican luminaries, including presidential candidates.


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http://www.politicususa.com/en/ralph-reed-claims-dominionism-is-a-conspiracy-theory


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[ixion]

1. Perhaps Ralph should have used Teh Google

before making such a patently absurd claim.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Hey Ralphie need a new term?

I mean you've been exposed now.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Ralph Reed himself long has been the problem, is the problem, and will continue to be the problem.

[blm]

4. SOP: Cong. Cheney assured press that John Kerry was a 'conspiracy theory nut' re IranContra/BCCI

Standard Operating Procedure for this group.

[Segami]

8. It would be a grave mistake to underestimate these raving lunatics. In the blink of an eye, we won't

see them coming!

[ixion]

5. The Despoiling of America.

How Dominionism Was Spread


The years 1982-1986 marked the period Pat Robertson and radio and televangelists urgently broadcast appeals that rallied Christian followers to accept a new political religion that would turn millions of Christians into an army of political operatives. It was the period when the militant church raised itself from centuries of sleep and once again eyed power.

At the time, most Americans were completely unaware of the militant agenda being preached on a daily basis across the breadth and width of America. Although it was called “Christianity” it can barely be recognized as Christian. It in fact was and is a wolf parading in sheep’s clothing: It was and is a political scheme to take over the government of the United States and then turn that government into an aggressor nation that will forcibly establish the United States as the ruling empire of the twenty-first century. It is subversive, seditious, secretive, and dangerous.<9>

Dominionism is a natural if unintended extension of Social Darwinism and is frequently called “Christian Reconstructionism.” Its doctrines are shocking to ordinary Christian believers and to most Americans. Journalist Frederick Clarkson, who has written extensively on the subject, warned in 1994 that Dominionism “seeks to replace democracy with a theocratic elite that would govern by imposing their interpretation of ‘Biblical Law.’” He described the ulterior motive of Dominionism is to eliminate “…labor unions, civil rights laws, and public schools.” Clarkson then describes the creation of new classes of citizens:
“Women would be generally relegated to hearth and home. Insufficiently Christian men would be denied citizenship, perhaps executed. So severe is this theocracy that it would extend capital punishment blasphemy, heresy, adultery, and homosexuality.”<10>
Today, Dominionists hide their agenda and have resorted to stealth; one investigator who has engaged in internet exchanges with people who identify themselves as religious conservatives said, “They cut and run if I mention the word ‘Dominionism.’”<11> Joan Bokaer, the Director of Theocracy Watch, a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University wrote, “In March 1986, I was on a speaking tour in Iowa and received a copy of the following memo Robertson had distributed to the Iowa Republican County Caucus titled, “How to Participate in a Political Party.” It read:

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

[patrice]

11. Thanks for this, ixion! I had forgotten about the Yurica Report! nt

[ixion]

13. No problem, patrice

I try and repost at least once a year so it stays in the collective conscious. :hi:

[patrice]

14. It's bookmarked now. : -)))

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Ralph Reed lies like other people breath

constantly and without thinking about it.

[Taverner]

7. Reagan and Bush considered "October Surprise" a conspiracy theory

[Ineeda]

9. Dominionism is no longer under the radar.

More people are starting to pay attention. So deny away, you nutjobs. We're getting the word out.

[patrice]

10. Right, and your state Chamber of Commerce and church leaders don't even know each other.

Ask around about attitudes toward the CoC in Brownbackistan.

There ARE small business people in my town who spit at the mention of churches.

People have been known to lose their jobs in this state for being on the wrong side of certain social issues.

The notion that the haves have because they deserve to have and the have-nots have-not because they don't deserve to have is clearly supported in what Frank Schaeffer has to say about Christian Reconstructionists. None of those have-notes need to have; ALL they need is Jesus.

Therefore, whether there is something that calls itself Dominionism or not is beside the point as to whether the ESSENCE of something dominionistic is perpetuated by a specific concerted and strategic effort among religious entities to acquire more and more POLITICAL power in order to enforce their economic assumptions against those who disagree with them . . . on "theological" grounds, of course. :sarcasm:

The essence of Dominionism by any other name IS just as evil, especially in a social-economic climate that is moving full speed ahead into faith-based initiatives as a means by which to "solve" its problems, especially in "health" "care" and with private prisons.

[Hydra]

12. Hint: Seperation of Church and State

Jesus was for it...but I suspect they'd crucify if if he showed up again. Too Liberal, not enough Mammon.

[patrice]

15. The Money Changers will get even with him yet once again, and again, and again . . .

[Joe Fields]

16. They duck for cover when a bright light is shone on them.

They operate stealth campaigns, heavily laden with code words and phrases.

Even they know that if the entire country caught wind of their agenda they'd be toast.

Cowards all, and still quite dangerous. A lot of money there to further their twisted cause.