#Dominionism

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#never trump #republican assholes #republican hypocrisy #crooked donald #evangelical assholes #fake Christians #dominionism #Republican oligarchs #republican perverts

[sataniccapitalist]

Drunk on Power: Christian Nationalism's War on Democracy

Constitutional attorney Andrew L. Seidel weighs in on how Christian Nationalism has weaponized secular institutions to establish a high-control theocracy.

#christian nationalism #theocracy #dominionism #authoritarianism

[truthdogg]

This article is from 2018, but it’s extremely relevant today, because of how influential David Barton has been over the past five years since it was written. The change in tone from the right has shifted in that time as more and more of Barton’s followers have taken office and implemented his ideas.

One of the key elements of his phony mythology, for starters, is that the founders were divinely inspired evangelicals, and that they cannot be criticized whatsoever. From the article:

“It's also telling that so much of this revisionist American history is about blending Christianity with a very specific form of American (usually white) nationalism. Figures like Barton blend the idea that America is a "Christian country" with the idea that the only critiques of the Founding Fathers - that, say, they owned slaves or contributed to racial inequality - come from "politically correct" historians seeking to discredit America's great history for political ends.

“The founders double as hero-saints to Barton. Central to the idea that America was founded as a Christian nation is the idea that America was founded unproblematically; that only a return to this mythologized past will somehow solve perceived problems of structural inequality. "Real" America, in other words, is above criticism.”

This is the entire basis of DeSantis and others’ “anti-woke” and “anti-CRT” philosophy.

Further, watch out for any elected official claiming the US Constitution is divinely inspired. Whenever you hear it, you’re hearing a Barton-following Dominionist who should not hold political office.

And here the article explains just why so many Republicans are no longer hiding their complete & utter disdain for democracy itself:

“…Barton is among those who believe the ultimate goal for American government should be a Christian theocratic state, which is necessary to properly usher in the apocalyptic End Times. Dominionism takes many forms, …(n)evertheless, its fundamental principle is the same: Christians must work toward a theocratic state in which Christians are in control. Or, as current congressional candidate (and fellow Barton enthusiast) Rick Saccone said in an interview last year with Pastors Network of America, God wants Christians “who will rule with the fear of God in them, to rule over us.” ”

If you don’t recall, Saccone fortunately lost that election as well as the one after. (Thank you, Pennsylvania!) But others like him continue to win. Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz are notable Dominionists, and even Donald Trump has publicly embraced these ideas. This worldview they share isn’t undermining their support; it’s why they have any. Republicans’ strongest supporters are with them because of these views, while so-called moderates like Mitt Romney, Adam Kinziger & others continue to lose party support. This is exactly why influential pastors like Robert Jeffress and David Jeremiah are such avid Trump campaigners, because they believe in Christian authoritarianism and believe that Trump can (and will) make it happen.

We need to be very clear about this. Today’s Republicans are mostly Barton-inspired fanatics at all levels, especially locally. This is why after Tennessee Republicans ejected Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, they were caught on tape claiming that they were personally at the forefront of a “war” for control of the nation.

Base Republicans believe this nonsense. That’s why the very next thing the Tennessee legislature did after that recording was made was vote to allow unlicensed concealed carry, because they want their soldiers armed if and when they are voted out of office. If you look at the collateral damage of their war—our now-daily mass murders—it’s easy to see what impact their belief is having. The fear and distrust these killings create serve their goals as well, as those are critical ingredients for any authoritarian regime.

If we don’t start paying attention to this poisonous religious & racist rhetoric, we will not be able to stop not only our daily violence, but the coming violence as well. January 6th is going to look like the tourist visit Republicans claim it was. This is urgent. The change in right-wing rhetoric from this 2018 article to today’s full-throated endorsement and implementation of its ideas should make that very clear.

#us politics #republicans #dominionism #white nationalists #Christian nationalists #woke #ron desantis

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Peter Montgomery at RWW:

As the aggressive Christian nationalism that infuses the MAGA movement and Republican Party intensifies, journalists and filmmakers are paying closer attention to the threat this political ideology and its adherents pose to freedom in America. A must-watch new documentary, “Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy,” will be available for streaming on AppleTV, Amazon Prime, and Google Play beginning Friday, April 26. Directed by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones and narrated by Peter Coyote, “Bad Faith” makes masterful use of archival and current footage of Christian nationalist religious and political figures, infographics, and interviews with scholars, religious leaders, political analysts, and even a former Trump administration official. The film draws a compelling through line from the scheming power-building of Paul Weyrich, the right-wing operative who recruited Jerry Falwell and other evangelical preachers to create the religious-right as a political movement in the late 1970s, to the institution-destroying antidemocratic ambitions of MAGA insiders like Steve Bannon, as well as Donald Trump’s dominionist “prophets” and “apostles” and the Jan. 6 insurrectionists they inspired.

[...]

“Bad Faith” explains how that transformation happened, documenting the role played by the Council for National Policy, a partnership between anti-regulation, economically libertarian oil barons and the religious-right leaders who intended to remake the Republican Party, take over the Supreme Court, and use their political power to enforce “traditional” views of family, sexuality, and gender on the rest of the nation. The Koch brothers poured tens of millions of dollars into “a state-of-the-art political data platform” that Council for National Policy groups use to collect personal information—including personal mental health, behavioral health, and treatment data—and use that information to micro-target individuals. (In “God & Country,” another documentary released earlier this year, Ralph Reed is shown bragging that his organization tracked “147 different data points” on the conservative Christians they targeted for turnout operations.) [...]

As “Bad Faith” makes clear, religious-right leaders viewed Trump as a powerful blunt weapon in a long-term political and spiritual war against the federal government and institutions dominated by progressive forces. “The Council’s gambit had paid off,” the film notes about Trump’s time in office. “Christian nationalists were firmly embedded at the highest levels of government. The Supreme Court had an absolute majority of justices poised to overturn landmark civil and women’s rights decisions. Paul Weyrich’s vision of a Christian nation was becoming a reality.” That explains why Christian nationalist leaders were willing to dismantle democracy to keep Trump in power. Members of the Council for National Policy and its political action arm went into “full combat mode” to promote Trump’s big lie, and, as Right Wing Watch documented, they supported his efforts to keep power after the 2020 election, portraying it as a holy war between the forces of good and evil. As Samuel Perry notes in the film, viewing politics as spiritual warfare between the forces of God and Satan makes it easy for those who see themselves on God’s side to “justify just about anything.”

The Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy documentary comes out today on streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Google Play today. Bad Faith focuses on the history of Christian Nationalism and its very real threat to democracy.

#Christian Nationalism #Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy #Film #Movies #Evangelical Christianity #Dominionism #Paul Weyrich #Jerry Falwell #Stephen Bannon #Koch Brothers #Council For National Policy

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Marci A Hamilton: The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, knows how he will rule: according to his Bible. When asked on Fox News how he would make public policy, he replied: “Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.” But it’s taking time for the full significance of that statement to sink in. Johnson is in fact a believer in scriptural originalism, the view that the Bible is the truth and the sole legitimate source for public policy. He was most candid about this in 2016, when he declared: “You know, we don’t live in a democracy” but a “biblical” republic. Chalk up his elevation to the speakership as the greatest victory so far within Congress for the religious right in its holy war to turn the US government into a theocracy. Since his fellow Republicans made him their leader, numerous articles have reported Johnson’s religiously motivated, far-right views on abortion, same-sex marriage and LGBTQ+ rights. But that barely scratches the surface. Johnson was a senior lawyer for the extremist Alliance Defending Fund (later the Alliance Defending Freedom) from 2002 to 2010. This is the organization responsible for orchestrating the 303 Creative v Elenis legal arguments to obtain a ruling from the supreme court permitting a wedding website designer to refuse to do business with gay couples. It also played a significant role in annulling Roe v Wade.

The ADF has always been opposed to privacy rights, abortion and birth control. Now Roe is gone, the group is laying the groundwork to end protection for birth control. Those who thought Roe would never be overruled should understand that the reasoning in Dobbs v Jackson is not tailored to abortion. Dobbs was explicitly written to be the legal fortress from which the right will launch their attacks against other fundamental rights their extremist Christian beliefs reject. They are passionate about rolling back the right to contraception, the right to same-sex marriage and the right to sexual privacy between consenting adults. Johnson’s inerrant biblical truth leads him to reject science. Johnson was a “young earth creationist”, holding that a literal reading of Genesis means that the earth is only a few thousand years old and humans walked alongside dinosaurs. He has been the attorney for and partner in Kentucky’s Creation Museum and Ark amusement park, which present these beliefs as scientific fact, a familiar sleight of hand where the end (garnering more believers) justifies the means (lying about science). For them, the end always justifies the means. That’s why they don’t even blink when non-believers suffer for their dogma.

Setting aside all of these wildly extreme, religiously motivated policy preferences, there is a more insidious threat to America in Johnson’s embrace of scriptural originalism: his belief that subjective interpretation of the Bible provides the master plan for governance. Religious truth is neither rational nor susceptible to reasoned debate. For Johnson, who sees a Manichean world divided between the saved who are going to heaven and the unsaved going to hell, there is no middle ground. Constitutional politics withers and is replaced with a battle of the faithful against the infidels. Sound familiar? Maybe in Tehran or Kabul or Riyadh. But in America? When rulers insist the law should be driven by a particular religious viewpoint, they are systematizing their beliefs and imposing a theocracy. We have thousands of religious sects in the US and there is no religious majority, but we now have a politically fervent conservative religious movement of Christian nationalists intent on shaping policy to match their understanding of God and theirs alone. The Republicans who elected Johnson speaker, by a unanimous vote, have aligned themselves with total political rule by an intolerant religious sect.

[The Guardian]

#The Guardian #Mike Johnson #Speaker of the House #fundamentalist Christianity #Fundamentalism #Dominionism #white Supremacy #anti-science #anti-LGBTQ #anti-women

[imkeepinit]

Alabama Senate GOP frontrunner: Constitution was written to "foster Christianity"

"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know."

#Christo-fascism #authoritarianism #dominionism #Mike Pence #Roy Moore #Sharia law #hypocrisy

[riotouseaterofflesh]

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/are-israelis-jews-returning-to-jewish-minority-life/

Are Israelis Jews? Returning to Jewish minority life

Israel has erased the Jewish people and destroyed the possibilities for Jews to live in Palestine as non-colonizers. “Israeli” is a colonial identity we should renounce, because it harms both Palestinians and Jews.

By Yarden Katz November 9, 2023

The project of decolonizing Palestine must also be a Jewish liberation project. Jews should be part of the struggle for decolonization because Jews have always been part of Palestine, as a minority community — even while the effort to liberate the land is clearly and rightly led by Palestinians. Decolonization means a return to Jewish minority life in Palestine. A return to minority life, for me, isn’t about numbers — although even if every Jew now living in Palestine stayed after the Israeli state was dismantled, Jews will still be a minority when Palestinian refugees in the diaspora are included. Rather, it is about reviving a non-colonial way to relate to the land and to others, one that builds on pre-zionist modes of living.  This will require not only material changes to life on the land, but also changes to culture and language. It will mean unlearning the colonial “Israeli” identity — that is, refusing “to be an ‘Israeli,’ to think like an Israeli, to identify as an Israeli, or to be recognized as an Israeli,” as Ariella Aïsha Azoulay urges, “because being an Israeli means being entitled to stolen lands and the property of others.” Rejecting Israeli identity should include reclaiming Hebrew as a diasporic language, moving past the lie that Hebrew was a “dead” liturgical language prior to the zionist movement. The end of the Israeli state could liberate Jews everywhere to revive non-zionist Jewish culture.  Yet, given the unspeakable crimes of the zionist state, I find it increasingly difficult to envision Jewish life in Palestine. Let’s be honest. If the Israeli regime were dismantled, then how and why would Palestinians want to live with a population that has cheered for their death and expulsion? And how could we imagine non-colonial Jewish life in Palestine when nearly every organized Jewish institution is currently some flavor of zionist? 

#zionism #judaism #identity #israel #palestine #minority #dominionism #christianity #antisemitism #mondoweiss

[thecapitolradar]

Is polyamory the future?

He seems scared <checks notes>:

I guess dominionists figure they've trounced the LGBTQIA crowd, and now they're gunning for . . . the "not terribly popular" practice of . . . polyamory?

What ever happened to feeding the poor and healing the sick?

#shadi hamid #fuller theological seminary #dominionism #trumpistan #theocracy #culture war #biblical illiteracy

[hezigler]

The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country (you need to know about t...

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior justification for selfishness."

John Kenneth Galbraith

#conservative #conservatism #modern conservatives #republicans #heritage foundation #project 2025 #Youtube #Dominionests #christian dominionism #dominionism

[themoabmercury]

Clayton Kershaw disagrees with Dodgers' decision to honor Sisters - ESPN

Poor baby.

Kershaw's alternative is something called "Christian Faith and Family Day", into which he has apparently strong-armed the Dodger organization.

What he means, of course, is "Dominionist/Religious Right/White Nationalist Family Day".

Let's remember that Christendom includes Catholics, Mormons, Quakers, Mennonites, and mainline Protestants, among others.

#clayton kershaw #dominionism #religious right #sisters of perpetual indulgence

[mypatchworkreflection]

"“Evangelism and discipleship opportunities within the military community directly represent the full spectrum of Great Commission work. American military installations exist all across the nation and in various places across the globe. By establishing churches outside the gates of these areas, the church is actively taking the gospel to the nations. Service members and their families are not only a field for the harvest (in need of baptizing and teaching), but Christian discipleship among this population can ignite new sparks in global, gospel proclamation. These men and women and their children will move to new places every few years with a potential of taking the good news of Christ with them everywhere they go.”

“Southern Baptist churches should recognize the natural potential for sending military disciples into the world with the gospel. Intentional church planting efforts focused on these communities can result in the exponential growth of the Kingdom. … Military-focused church planters will essentially sow the seeds for a global harvest.”"

TLDR- They want to take religious control of the US military, as a means of spreading their ideological control.

#us military #dominionism #evangelical christianity #the americans are not okay

[sataniccapitalist]

#christians #fascism #dominionism #democrats

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

Disturbing thought: The reason that we haven’t heard anything about The Rapture recently even though Christofascism is on the rise is that the Rapture is something you kinda just wait around for and the current crop is more interested in a hands-on approach

#original #christofascism #dominionism #uspol #the rapture

[zerojanitor]

twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman

tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses

discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform

youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification

reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the outrageous monetization of third-party API support

facebook: my mom is on there

#idk what point i'm making its just wild watching the established internet dominion basically screech to a halt

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

An exploration of the toxic brew of the white Evangelical pastors who form the hardcore base of the Trump supporters. They have concocted a new theology: fifty percent "prosperity gospel" and fifty percent white nationalism with very strong overtones of fascism as it manifested itself in Europe between the wars. These views are essentially heretical from the perspective of Roman Catholic, Orthodox and mainstream Protestant Christianity, and indeed, the Gospel of Jesus Christ plays only the most peripheral role.

#evangelicals #religion #toxic brew #The Texas Observer #Steven Monacelli #dominionism #toxic religion

[imkeepinit]

#dominionism