The Myth of Dominionists and the Left's Scaremongering False Linkage to Christians and Christian Politicians

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.   

Christians Voting for Marxists, Secularists Then Surprised When They Vote to Oppress Freedom of Religion

Goal of Democrat Party for America

I've been saying for years that Marxism, Socialism, Communism, the Democrat Party and the rest of the totalitarian government philosophies and entities are antithetical to Christianity and have sat in wonderment that so many Christians vote Democrat or Socialist.

We had Barack Obama famously comment on those that cling to their guns and religion, directed at Christians here which don't, while he supports the Islamofascists in the Middle East that do. What else not supported are public displays of Christianity. Obama and the Democrats have turned freedom of religion found in the Establishment Clause to freedom from religion  and freedom to worship. Freedom to worship means if you're a Christian, shut the hell up except when you're with you own kind on Sundays.

I've chronicled how government officials have helped the Democrat Party, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), the Communist Party founded ACLU going to schools, colleges and universities, to the middle of the desert, to the deep woods, and anywhere a Cross or Ten Commandments monument or engraving is found, and sue to get them removed. Even to the point of a Ten Commandments monument on school grounds, voted on by the Democrat City Council to be removed. A solution was offered to have the monument moved to a nearby church. That was rejected because it was still in public view. Seriously.

Look for the day when churches will have to remove Crosses if that's the case.

It's the Democrat Party that's forcing the Catholic Church and other religious institutions to pay for birth control, abortion pills, abortion, infanticide according to government dictates, violating centuries of tradition, values and belief.

It's the Democrat Party and other anti Christians that keep Christian clubs forming on Campuses. It's the Democrat Party and other anti Christian intolerant bigots forcing existing clubs to accept and vote into leadership positions atheists and secularists to meet with "diversity" guidelines. It's the Democrat Party that is trying to stop Bible study groups from meeting in homes. Only Christian groups; Islamists are given a pass in the name of 'diversity".

Given all that, many Christians will still vote Democrat. They will vote for the city council members that remove Christian symbols from the public square. The will vote for state and federal Democrat officials that have a history of anti Christian bigotry and belief in the State before God. For example, a Catholic politician voting for abortion and infanticide, using as an excuse they don't want to force their values on other's. It's not a value if you use the power of the State to force others to obey the State and violate Christian practices; that person values the Secularist State over Christianity. He\She values killing babies over saving them. Yet many Christians will vote for these supporters that ignore or turn the Establishment Clause on its head. They will vote for those that oppose Christianity but give Islamists a pass. They will vote for those that ignore Biblical Principles.

The Founding Fathers made it quite clear that there must be a [Christian] religious moral foundation and virtuous people for our republic to survive. Many Christians for decades have voted against Christianity and for the State the oppresses them, then complain when the State, the people they voted for, actually starts removing all public practice and symbols of Christianity from the public square.

"If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My Face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land."  2 Chronicles 7:14 

I can't help but think what happened to the Old Testament Jews every time they turned their back on God. It wasn't pretty.

  

Dems Using Religion to Attack Opponents

Secularist Leftists continually attack religion, specifically Christians, except when they think using religion can score political points. The results are pretty vile.

In the Kentucky senate race Democrat Jack Conway came out with an ad attacking his Republican opponent Rand Paul for a hazing event that happened when Paul was in college decades ago.  

Part the ad:

“Why was Rand Paul a member of a secret society that called the Holy Bible ‘a hoax’ – that was banned for mocking Christianity and Christ?” “Why did Rand Paul once tie a woman up? Tell her to bow down before a false idol and say his God was ‘Aqua Buddha?’

 I’ve seen interviews with this Conway character, and he actually believes this is a legitimate campaign issue. Most importantly, a Democrat is using religion (or what he believes to be religion) to attack a political opponent. You can bet if this were a Republican using religion in a like manner it would be attacked by all the “separation of church and state” anti-Christian bigots in the Democrat Party and Jurassic Press.

This second example is especially vile. Democrat Russ Carnahan released a vid through a website “The Real Ed Martin” (Carnahan’s Republican opponent) that tries to link Martin to the pedophilia cover up in the Catholic Church. The vid on this page is direct and vile. Martin has done a lot of volunteer work with the Catholic Church, and apparently Carnahan thinks anyone in the Catholic Church supports and covers up pedophilia. I would suggest this is pretty much the view of most secularists and Dems.

Church and State separation is such a part of the indoctrination of the Left that when Republican senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell pointed out to her Marxist opponent that the establishment clause in the Constitution does not contain language stating there’s such a separation, her opponent, Chris Coons, derided and mocked her for her lack of knowledge of the Constitution. This was at a law school and the audience jeered at her ignorance. Obviously they are not being taught the Constitution in their Con classes. Of course the secularist bigots of the Jurassic Press sided with the ignorant Marxist and the indoctrinated mindless students.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Nothing in there about separation of church and state, yet even though more than a week has passed, the Jurassic Press and Dems have continued to attack her as stupid and ignorant. Knuckleheads.

Rather than understanding, or even trying to understand Christianity, their intolerance is so bred into them, the only time the Dems bring religion up is to spread lies and attack the Church and Christians. They do support Islam though, and that makes sense because it’s totalitarian too.

Working Hard to Make Christianity Illegal

I keep going back and reading the establishment clause of the Constitution, and how anyone can read it to mean that individuals and government can oppress the practice of religion mystifies me.  

It says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Out of that, we get the view that one can only engage in religious thoughts, behaviors and practices in the home and church. I think my favorite example of religious oppression and intolerance was a few years ago when a lawsuit was filed against a child for reading the Bible on the school bus on the way home. The bus was school property, thus government property, and reading the Bible on government property is in violation of the establishment clause. Truly. Ultimately the little girl, in a battle all the way to the Supreme Court, got to read her Bible on the bus. Jeeeez, such a horrible behavior. I guess running around on the bus, throwing things and getting into fights is much more acceptable.

The latest act of oppression brought to us by intolerant secularist bigots, regards a school principle that made a 30 second appearance on a video. The vid was a promo for an annual interdenominational prayer breakfast to honor teachers. This prayer breakfast has been held for 52 years in Santa Barbara, not exactly a Christian or Conservative stronghold. The Principle, Craig Richter of Foothill Elementary School, didn’t attend the breakfast, and made the vid on his own time on private property.

Some knucklehead member of the school board saw the promo on the internet, recognized Richter, and filed a complaint that he was promoting religion. The school district is taking disciplinary action and has put Richter on a ‘performance plan’. I suppose he’ll be sent to a reeducation camp next. The intolerant anti-Christian bigots of the school district are also threatening to cancel his contract.

Congress shall make no law has been perverted into 'we secularists and neo-atheists can do whatever we want to oppress freedom of religion'.

A great song by “The Talking Heads” has a line, ‘this isn’t my house, how did I get here?’. Sometimes I’ve go to wonder, this isn’t my country, how did I get here? 

You Can't Pray Before Dinner

There's a retirement home in Georgia, Port Wentworth's Ed Young Senior Citizens Center. Once again the intolerant anti-Christian secularist bigots and atheists use the Establishment Clause. It just says the government can't impose a religion, and the secularists change it to mean that you can't express religion in public.

The Senior center have some meals are discounted for the people there, and the difference between the retail cost and the discounted cost is picked up with Federal money. The knuckleheads at the Center, specifically Tim Rutherford, Senior Citizens Inc. vice president said some of his employees went to a luncheon, and horror of horrors, people were praying over their meal before eating, and this is a violation of the separation of church and state. This is just as stupid as a case a few years ago, a little girl riding the school bus home was reading the Bible, and was told she couldn't because it was a violation of the separation of church and state. The only thing I see separated here is knowledge and intelligence from people in positions of authority.

Apparently the prayer was public, and the backpedaling knuckleheads say the seasoned citizens can have a moment of silence, and pray to themselves, that they weren't saying there could be no prayer. What a bunch of lying nonsense. I recently saw an atheist poster, the famous painting of Jesus in the garden praying, saying "The best way to feel like you're making a difference in the world without actually having to do jack s**t." So, knuckleheads, if prayer is so meaningless, what's the beef?

To his credit, Mayor Glenn "Pig" Jones said this is pretty much just stupid, and is trying to get things straightened out. Jones: "It was one of the hardest things I ever did as mayor is to look those people in the eyes and ask them to be patient with me and honor their God in a moment of silence until I can have a resolution to this." "For me to look at their eyes and tell them they can't thank God for their food, it's unheard of - I can't take it."

Not okay to pray, but is okay to use the Federal Government to force intolerance and bigotry on the citizens, and repress freedom of religion in violation of the Constitution. It's what happens when Statists say the Constitution is a 'living document', meaning that anyone can say it means whatever they or the zeitgeist of the day says it means.