More on the Right-wing religious agenda.
Boadicea saw my post on the planned conference on the right wing religious agenda April 29 and 30 at CUNY in New York City.
She has an extremely interesting reference to a discussion of Dominion theology. Read it. This isn't fiction. These people are really out there, and they make a Tom Clancy novel look highly realistic.
Then go look at Theocracy Watch.
This stuff could easily be an internet-communicated conspiracy theory by some crazies - except that Tom DeLay, John Cornyn, and Pat Robertson really are acting very much as though it was true.
Consider this:
It is Dominion We Are After
Author and educator George Grant was Executive Director of Coral Ridge Ministries for many years. He explains in The Changing of the Guard, Biblical Principles for Political Action:
Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ -- to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness.
But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice.
It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.
It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.
It is dominion we are after.
World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less... Thus, Christian politics has as its primary intent the conquest of the land -- of men, families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the Kingdom of Christ. (pp. 50-51)
The Republican Party of Texas was taken over by the religious right wing over twenty years ago. It wasn't hard. In Texas the parties have a caucus in each precinct at 7:15 PM after the party primary election where delegates are elected to go to the county convention. At county they elect delegates to the state convention.
My precinct voted about 350 Democrats, so they were authorized four delegates and four alternates. We had four people show up, so we were all delegates, and since we could appoint any registered voter in the precint we sent the absent wife of one individual as an alternate.
Since I wanted to be Precinct Chairman, my son and I were two of the four delegates. Funny, I became Precinct Chairman. The religious right took over the Republicvans this way, and look at the Texas Republican Platform for 2004.
How close is America to a Theocracy? Pretty damned close.
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