religiousragings:

On Monday evening, Cindy and Mike Jacobs of Generals International hosted a three-hour “Reformation Day” webcast featuring a variety of New Apostolic Reformation leaders like John Benefiel, Samuel Rodriquez, Chuck Pierce and even C. Peter Wagner.

Wagner, participating via Skype, continued his recent policy of trying to downplay all of his past teachings on taking dominion and has now started to promote it as the solution to all of the nation’s problems.

To hear Wagner explain it, once God’s kingdom is established here on Earth and this nation operates according to Biblical principles, it will bring tremendous benefits like justice, peace, equality, prosperity, health, honesty and the end of racism, poverty, corruption, and crime … and who could possibly be opposed to that?

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Contest: Who really deserves a reputation as too much of a right-wing extremist for the Beltway media to take seriously?

namelessgenxer:

Shorter Version:

Republican Presidential Candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry are

RAVING LUNATIC CHRISTIAN DOMINIONISTS

The only question is: What policies will Bachmann and Perry put in place to exterminate us non-believers?

manicchill:

One of my first “original” articles for this blog was a relatively short post titled, “Seven Mountains Dominionism: Why Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich Won’t Be President”. The post has a couple notes, but hasn’t been a particularly popular ….until recently. Suddenly, in the last few…

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Francis Schaeffer instructed his followers and students at L’Abri that the Bible was not just a book but “the total truth.” He was a major contributor to the school of thought now known as Dominionism, which relies on Genesis 1:26, where man is urged to “have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Sara Diamond, who has written several books about evangelical movements in America, has succinctly defined the philosophy that resulted from Schaeffer’s interpretation: “Christians, and Christians alone, are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns.”

In 1981, three years before he died, Schaeffer published “A Christian Manifesto,” a guide for Christian activism, in which he argues for the violent overthrow of the government if Roe v. Wade isn’t reversed. In his movie, Schaeffer warned that America’s descent into tyranny would not look like Hitler’s or Stalin’s; it would probably be guided stealthily, by “a manipulative, authoritarian élite.”

Today, one of the leading proponents of Schaeffer’s version of Dominionism is Nancy Pearcey, a former student of his and a prominent creationist. Her 2004 book, “Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity,” teaches readers how to implement Schaeffer’s idea that a Biblical world view should suffuse every aspect of one’s life. She tells her readers to be extremely cautious with ideas from non-Christians. There may “be occasions when Christians are mistaken on some point while nonbelievers get it right,” she writes in “Total Truth.” “Nevertheless, the overall systems of thought constructed by nonbelievers will be false—for if the system is not built on Biblical truth, then it will be built on some other ultimate principle. Even individual truths will be seen through the distorting lens of a false world view.”

When, in 2005, the Minneapolis Star Tribune asked Bachmann what books she had read recently, she mentioned two: Ann Coulter’s “Treason,” a jeremiad that accuses liberals of lacking patriotism, and Pearcey’s “Total Truth,” which Bachmann told me was a “wonderful” book.

(Source: azspot)