Reply #313: The current version of it seems to be pretty new

[eridani]

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/dominionismexposed.html

The above site dissects all the various versions, and no black churches are listed. How come MLK, Jr. never mentioned it in his sermons if it was that all-fired important?

What you are talking about is utterly amoral thuggery justified by idiotic beliefs, i.e, we do whatever we want to the earth and people we don't like because God's just going to trash it all soon anyway. I don't see how anyone who thinks there is such a thing as the public good can buy it. I'll bet that the evangelical environmentalists speaking up recently don't put a lot of store in it.

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2005/12/what_the_left_b.html

The best thing about the Left Behind books is the way the non-Christians get their guts pulled out by God."
-- 15-year old fundamentalist fan of the Left Behind series

That is the sophisticated language and appeal of America’s all-time best selling adult novels celebrating the ethnic cleansing of non-Christians at the hands of Christ. If a Muslim were to write an Islamic version of the last book in the Left Behind series, Glorious Appearing, and publish it across the Middle East, Americans would go beserk. Yet tens of millions of Christians eagerly await and celebrate an End Time when everyone who disagrees with them will be murdered in ways that make Islamic beheading look like a bridal shower.

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Fetishizing of the End Times as a spectacular gore-fest visited upon on the unbelievers is nothing new. But the sheer number of people gleefully enjoying the spectacle of their own blackest magical thinking made manifest by mass media is new. Or at least the media aspect is new. It reinforces the major appeal of these beliefs, the appeal being (to restate the obvious) that they get to pass judgment on everyone who disagrees with them, and then watch God kick the living snot out of them. It doesn’t get any better than that.