Every once in a while the Left/Secularist/Atheists rise up a
bogeyman I would surmise may be less than one in ten thousand Christians have
even heard of. This is a group created whole cloth by Left, identified as Dominionists.
Leftist extremists like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the “Daily
Beast” and what used to be a legitimate news magazine “Newsweek” (I think they
merged with the “Daily Beast” but not sure and not the reason for this blog),
are the main contributors to this creation. It’s believed by these people the “Dominionists”
have “a direct line to God” as Maddow reported three or four years ago (I think
leading up to the 2012 elections) and their purpose is to “clear the way for
the [end of the world]…by infiltrating and taking over government”. (Christians
call the direct line to God prayer.)
These Leftists have other names for the people that want to
create a theocracy: Reconstructionists, Theonomists. The New Apostolic
Reformation. I’m sure there are others, but the Leftists tie in all
Republicans, Conservatives, TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already), and Christians to this made
up group. Create an idea or group (or give a group power/influence they don’t
have), tie your enemies to it, and you’ve got your bogeyman. The political
leaders of this group apparently are Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry. Really. “Theologian”
Albert Outler claim GW Bush "the first prince of the theocratic states of
America." You see, he fell under the influence of some “Assembly of God”
preachers. A few years ago I read some Leftist article or blog and she stated
the Reagan years were a horrible oppressive theocracy. Who knew?
Millions of Americans I guess were forced to their knees to
pray, go to church, and worship or else they were beheaded, beaten, given
lashes, imprisoned, and who knows what else. The number of homosexuals and adulterers
that were beaten and imprisoned during the Reagan years was off the charts! Part
of this Leftists “dominionist” scare propaganda is drawing lines of moral equivalency
between Christians and Islamofascists. Christians are really like the Taliban
and ISIS you see.
The founder of this group was R.J. Rushdoony. He had a guy,
Gary North, who later became Rushdoony’s son in law, who tried to apply the
principals of Rushdoony’s theocracy or "theonomy" (God-rooted law) in
real time. He worked for a bit as a staffer for Ron Paul, got involved in some
Southern politics, failed, and had a big fall out with Rushdoony. There were
two other guys, Greg Bahnsen and David Chilton; they died in 1995 and 1997
respectively. Since then the “Reconstructionists” have been on the outs with
mainstream Christians because just regular Christians are ideologically impure.
Plus plain ol’ ordinary church going Christians have no idea who these guys are
and what they preach and teach.
Public tax return records show the “Reconstructionists” core
organization, Chalcedon, show way less than a $million in their coffers, and
haven’t since about 2001. They have no money, no leader, no one knows about
them, and have no influence in politics.
One last issue raised by Leftists that they want to use in
their fear mongering, (and proposed by Rushdoony [and lots of others, but for propaganda
purposes they focus on the nutjob Rushdoony) is the horribleness of home
schooling. This country was pretty much home schooled up until the 1920’s, and
by the looks of it, we were a pretty successful country. Home schooling has
been growing steadily for a couple decades, certainly the last decade, and who
can blame parents for making that sacrifice? Since the Department of Education
was formed by Democrat Jimmy Carter, kids have been graduating functionally
illiterate, can’t do arithmetic, and history for them is what they are aware of
only in their own lifetime. Teaching kids those things is horrible because it
makes it harder to have them submit to the State.
Like Colombo, one more thing, there is no such thing as the
separation of church and state in the Constitution. The “Establishment Clause”
clearly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion…” That’s it. That Christians participate in politics does not mean
they are writing laws establishing a State Religion, though they are guided by
(and sometimes fall short of) those moral principles. Sadly and dangerously the
Left/Secularists/Atheists see any application of Judeo-Christian moral
principles as the establishment of a theocracy.
The last time Leftists started this church and state thing,
and the rise of dominionism, was just before the 2012 election. Fear mongering,
and just plain making stuff up. There’s no there, there.
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