'To Rule History With God': The Christian Dominionist War On Abortion, Part I

[UpInArms]

He was drawing on ideas from the 1940s Latter Rain Movement—a revival-style Pentecostal movement whose adherents believed God was restoring a “five-fold ministry” that included not only pastors, evangelists and teachers, but also apostles and prophets like those in the Book of Acts.

One such prophet in the Trump Hotel ballroom in February 2018 was Damon Thompson, a traveling evangelist from South Carolina. Since the 2000s, Thompson has preached dozens of times at churches in South Mississippi. Also present was Lou Engle, an anti-abortion crusader who rose to fame among the faithful as part of a group known as the “Kansas City Prophets.”

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Farris and others like him, Clarkson said, fear that sending children to public schools is the same as “turning them over to institutions that are essentially Satanic and teaching children things that are not only non-Christian, but anti-Christian.”

“The idea of Christianizing schools or taking these children out of the public schools and into private Christian academies or homeschool has been in the works for a long time,” he said. “They managed to get right-to-homeschool as part of the Republican platform under Reagan in the 1980s. This has been a long-term process.”

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In 1998, Farris founded Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., a college that rejects federal financial aid and requires students to sign a Christian “affirmation of fate.” Among its alumni are former Trump White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah and U.S. House Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a North Carolina Republican who attended but did not graduate from the college.

So much more at:

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/to-rule-history-with-god-the-christian-dominionist-war-on-abortion-part-i/

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1. Highly recommended, thanks for posting this.

[UpInArms]

2. I am fairly horrified

The Mississippi Free Press has done an exceptional job on this subject

[Lonestarblue]

3. I have no objections whatsoever to parents who want to send their kids to religious schools.

Just do not expect me to pay for your choices with my tax dollars. And do not expect me to support laws that force me to do so. That is unconstitutional because we have a First Amendment that separates church and state. Unfortunately, our Supreme Court and many Republican legislators have chosen to ignore that Amendment and its prohibition against establishing a state religion.

[valleyrogue]

4. Writers need to call this what it was called originally, and that is "Christian Reconstructionism."

Writers then would be forced to look into the major architect of this insanity, and that is Rousas J. Rushdoony (1916-2001), somebody who was totally crazy, but he ingeniously came up with the idea of couching his John Birch political paranoia with extreme Calvinism complete with being enamored with the Old Testament death penalties for all kinds of things. Fascism wrapped up in the Bible is what Rushdoony was all about. His poisonous ideas have done a lot of damage to Christianity, especially to the "evangelical" wing of it, and they threaten to destroy our country.

Writers call this "Christian nationalism," "seven mountains," "New Apostolic Reformation," "dominionism," but they are basically the same thing as or variations of "Christian Reconstructionism."

[valleyrogue]

5. Reconstructionists don't really believe in private schools, either.

They are big on "homeschooling" (an oxymoron) not because it is beneficial to kids but because it further chains women to the home.

They don't believe women are good for anything except sexual access, breeding, and staying home doing chores men are too lazy to do because they aren't considered intelligent at all. They are simply things for men to use and abuse.