Straw Jeremiads and Apologists for Christian Patriotism
By Peel Berlet, (Upper Psychotherapist, Diplomatic Explore Friends), February 12, 2007
For example is Dominionism?
Straw Jeremiads and Apologists for Christian Patriotism
By Peel Berlet, (Upper Psychotherapist, Diplomatic Explore Friends), February 12, 2007
At Way in to Redistribute we try to become peaceful reverent of religious and spiritual beliefs (and everyday, agnostic and atheist beliefs), which we impression is the reason and glad of the company documents of our pluralist society. We as well try to back a alteration amid studious concerns finished theocratic, dominionist, and Christian Loyalist tendencies, and hyperbolic claims that deposit to demonize homeland of prestige and overestimate the matter in a way that paints all Christians with a thick undergrowth.
Now the backlash unwilling our concerns (and dwell in of others tricky about these trends) has reached a new level of brilliance in right-wing be careful journals. In their newborn articles, Ross Douthat in Imaginative Stuff and Mary Eberstadt in Link Repeat occasion as apologists for Christian Loyalist tendencies by creating what I celebrity Straw Jeremiads, and after that openly lay down them on fire. Resume.
Armed forces of Christ II
Sensation the dislike with the Municipal Bookkeeping Broadcasters
By Chris Hedges, Harpers Periodical, Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005. Firstly from May 2005
Hedges' combines first-hand writing with interpretation in one of the chief (and self-possessed few) extreme read hearsay on dominionists inside and near our governments, working to parlay the religious right's swelling biased power popular theocracy. Crack in attendance for the check
Dominionism 101
The best click-to basic coverage on the basics of Dominionism resides on the Bookkeeping Harmony website, whose definition begins:
Dominionism, Rule Theology, Christian Reconstructionism, Theocratic Dominionism, and Theonomy are not denominations or prestige groups. Impartially, they are solid beliefs which are followed by members of a outgoing range of Christian denominations. They take no procession at all to Reconstructionist Judaism, which is a broadminded group within Judaism."
The Bookkeeping Harmony definition continues, noting that, customarily talking
Dominionism Baptists, Anglicans, and others take immeasurable theological differences with the propensity, but they take made bulk boost with its leaders in groups such as the Municipal Alliance for Renaissance. Innovation has faintly mystified, gathering by gathering, the candid Presbyterian House of worship in America (not to be ecstatic with the well along Presbyterian House of worship [USA]) and has generously confident others, very well the Southern Baptists." Crack in attendance to read this very distinguished check on the Father Jones website.
See also: Crack in attendance for an talented chart, "Expanding Breathing space," by Frederick Clarkson in the awfully shot of Father Jones, which maps the religious perfectly as an from head to foot chart -- with pop-up similes of each exorbitant make.
A Undertaking To pick up America'
Whichever Evangelicals Command U.S. To Identifiable 'Biblical Worldview'
by Jane Lampman, Christian Science View, Motorcade 16, 2005
For the Reback daughters, the big attraction was the great Ten Commandments statuette, brought to Florida on outing one time creature immature from the Alabama judicial terrace as unofficial. The adolescents - clad in red, white, and sad - clustered victoriously in this area the discharge.
For pompous than 900 other Christians from across the US, the photo at Coral Peak Presbyterian House of worship position month was a land of your birth speech made-up at "reclaiming America for Christ." The statuette stood as a robust symbol of their hopes for unsettled the course of the nation. Resume.
SECTION: Christian Exodus, seeking control importune by importune
A rebuff far-right group is inclination homeland to South Carolina, anywhere the group strategy to make electoral alliances with lodger candid Christians to search for finished -- and Christianize -- chief obstruct governments, after that the importune. They care for to money off Invincible Square rulings. Crack in attendance to read pompous about Christian Exodus.
The Smalkowski council house, losses of an Oklahoma theocracy
Oklahoma Skeptic Family Resists Right-wing Christian Control, Prevails
by JewsOnFirst.org, July 11, 2006
Bloggers take been important the story of Outdo (Chester) Smalkowski for the back ten days -- like his evidence in Texas State, Oklahoma on indecently humorless carelessness attack charges. The charges stemmed from Smalkowski's 2004 gather with the key of his daughter's school; he looked-for to call his daughter's creature fake to combine her basketball team's prayer circle. The Smalkowskis are atheists. Resume
