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Peacock Panache
March 22, 2018
That's how Dominionism works, though. So long as people don't know or understand “In God We Trust” is a recent attempt at rewriting American History to align with Christian values, they won't argue when the motto is added to schools, license plates and other forms of taxpayer-funded resources andÃâà...
High Plains Reader
March 21, 2018
While Kansas Republicans were condemning the LGBTQ community, a Christian sect of the religious right called Dominionists were meeting at ... Michael Gerson, a religious conservative, has summed up why white evangelical Christians and Dominionists support Trump in his article “The Last Temptation.
Patheos (blog)
March 10, 2018
Saccone, who is running against Democrat Conor Lamb in what looks to be a tight race, is a Trumpist with a Christian nationalist bent. ... Barton is an advocate of “Seven Mountains” dominionism, the idea that conservative Christians must take control of all the “mountains” of government and culture in orderÃâà...
AlterNet
March 9, 2018
The Christian Right has been appropriating religious freedom to advance its agenda—frequently saying what religious freedom is not, but not much about ... (Dominionism is, very simply, the idea that Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society by taking control of politicalÃâà...
Truth-Out
March 9, 2018
Although there are various iterations of Dominionism, Dominionists are united in their belief that conservative Christians should take complete control of all .... is the only growth sector in Christianity in the US and the New Apostolic Reformation is the most politically dynamic element of the Christian Right.
Right Wing Watch
March 8, 2018
Saccone, who is running against Democrat Conor Lamb in what looks to be a tight race, is a Trumpist with a Christian nationalist bent. ... Barton is an advocate of “Seven Mountains” dominionism, the idea that conservative Christians must take control of all the “mountains” of government and culture in orderÃâà...
Truth-Out
March 2, 2018
"Dominionism is the theocratic idea that regardless of theological view, means, or timetable, Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society by taking control of political and cultural institutions." Dominionists are Christian nationalist extremists -- modern iterations of medievalÃâà...
St. Paul Asian American Press
March 1, 2018
And then as an intellectual curiosity, I started to notice some of the fringe views embraced by Quiverfull-adherents like Christian Dominionism popping up in mainstream conversations. From a personal perspective, I wanted to find a way to capture the long labors and childbirths I'd had in short succession inÃâà...
Right Wing Watch
February 21, 2018
The sold-out event—The Turnaround: An Appeal to Heaven National Gathering—has been organized by a group of dominionists who consider ... Lou Engle, who has called on Christians to pray that God would “sweep” the Supreme Court and other federal courts of justices and judges who uphold Roe v.
Patheos (blog)
February 9, 2018
God may have told Michele Bachmann not to run for Al Franken's old Senate seat, but he's apparently been busy talking to Cynthia Dunbar, a Christian dominionists who used to be on the Texas ... She believes many Christians are being fooled by appearances without seeing the deeper issues at stake.
Vox
January 25, 2018
Many political figures, including Ted Cruz and Roy Moore, have embraced a form of Christian nationalism or Dominionism, based on the idea that the American ... the narrative that America was founded as a specifically Christian nation, and that the Founding Fathers were “orthodox, evangelical” Christians.
Patheos (blog)
November 5, 2017
This essay describes the thinking of a far-right fringe of Christianity. Most Christians probably disagree, and even deplore, the goals of these fanatics. But I think it is important that we understand what they propose…and would impose on the rest of us if they ever gained political power. I have collected thisÃâà...
Vox
September 29, 2017
He has long been loosely associated with an umbrella movement: a philosophical, theocratic approach to Christianity known as “dominionism,” to which ... In its broadest form, dominionism is the belief that America is and has always been a Christian nation and that it is the duty of Christians to restoreÃâà...
ReligiousLiberty.TV (blog)
August 22, 2017
These Dominionist ideas are not new to the Christian movement. Along with flamboyant displays of patriotism, evangelical Christians have a long history of decrying the sad condition to which America has fallen. Draped and securely shielded by the American flag, Christianity has adopted the idea that ourÃâà...
The Texas Observer
August 9, 2017
As scholar Frederick Clarkson puts it, dominionism is “the theocratic idea that … God has called conservative Christians to exercise dominion over society by taking control of political and cultural institutions.” Dominionists aren't satisfied with mere Christian participation in the public square; they want toÃâà...
Advocate.com
December 31, 1999
While not all evangelicals believe the same, the far more radicalized tend toward a belief called dominionism — a wish to turn America into a nation perhaps not run as a theocratic state but at least run by extreme Christian beliefs, the military included. Hence the reason Pence, with the help of the FamilyÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
December 31, 1999
Culture wars are now quite possibly the real face of modern American Christianity. Whether a particular Christian loves 'em or hates 'em, they're part of the swamp now. A culture war is a social squabble that Christians fight in order to gain (or regain) their onetime power over American culture. Often theÃâà...
RollingStone.com
December 31, 1999
Billy Graham saved my soul. In 1973, I was ten years old, growing up in a working-class clan in North Carolina, and I had a problem: I liked boys. Also, men. And even though my family's Methodist church served up the mildest form of Protestantism – no dire warnings about fornicators and sodomites andÃâà...
