The Despoiling of America

[Puglover]

A co-worker just gave this to me. It's been around awhile but I thought I would post it. Absolutely chilling.

The Despoiling of America

How George W. Bush became the head of the new
American Dominionist Church/State
by Katherine Yurica
Most Americans have been aware that religious right
Republicans have become extremely active politically
in the last twenty years. But because we're Americans
and we're mostly tolerant of other people's religious
beliefs, their rise to power hasn't really troubled us.
We should be troubled. There is now overwhelming
evidence that conservative Christians set out to
overthrow the government of the United States,
dispense with our democracy, and institute in its
place, a government ruled by Old Testament laws--
including an expanded litany of death penalties.
This article is not a conspiracy theory. It contains
the legal elements required for the prosecution of any
criminal or civil conspiracy in our nation. The proof
is in this article.

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

[OneBlueSky]

1. go to yuricareport.com for any number of important articles . . .

on BushCo and, particularly, the rise of Christian Dominionism in the US . . .

[Demeter]

2. Thanks for The Reference

Absolutely chilling. These are monsters, they have given up all pretense of being human beings.

[ixion]

3. here's the original post of this, back in 04

To date, I still believe that it's serious issue that's largely being overlooked...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x34888

[Starfury]

4. This is too important (IMO) to let disappear - here's another snippet

The Dominionist Plan: Today Control the USA, Tomorrow the World

Significantly, Dominionism is a form of Social Darwinism.<48> It inherently includes the religious belief that wealth-power is a sign of God’s election. That is, out of the masses of people and the multitude of nations—wealth, in and of itself, is thought to indicate God’s approval on men and nations whereas poverty and sickness reflect God’s disapproval. The roots of the idea come from a natural twist of an Old Testament passage, which I discuss below. Essentially there were two elements necessary to establish Dominionism among Christians who previously believed helping the poor was a mandate of Christianity.<49>

First, Old Testament law had to be accepted as an essential part of a Christian’s theology.

Secondly, the Christian had to undergo a second conversion-like experience that went beyond being born again and demanded not only a commitment to reestablishing the Old Testament legal structure but required the implementation of that law in the nations of the world (including the U.S.) based upon a different understanding of the Great Commission (Matthew 28: 18-20).<50> Under this concept Dominionists are to go into all the world to take dominion and “make disciples” teaching the disciples to “observe all” that Jesus “commanded.” All nations under Dominionist’s teaching are to convert to biblical laws, which are ranked superior to secular laws that were not God given or God directed and are found wanting. The Christian therefore must be willing to overthrow all laws that are secular.

In other words, a measure of one’s spirituality rested upon the individual’s willingness to accept the concept of taking dominion over not only the people of America, but taking dominion over the people of the entire world. From Dominionists’ actual words, the taking of America is perceived as a violent act. Ben Kinchlow who co-hosted CBN’s 700 Club with Pat Robertson told an audience, “We need to grab the American dream by the short hairs and snatch it back to where it was originally designed to be.”

As Robertson wrote approvingly in his book, The Secret Kingdom, the kingdom of heaven “suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.” He explained, “Zealous men force their way in. That’s what it means.” (Page 82.)