While You Weren't Looking, This Was Happening in the Christian Right

[MineralMan]

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43793-christian-dominionists-meet-at-trump-s-washington-hotel-to-answer-the-divine-call-to-war

Christian Dominionists Meet at Trump's Washington Hotel to Answer the "Divine Call to War"
Friday, March 09, 2018
By Bill Berkowitz, Truthout | News Analysis

Last month, while NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre was regaling culture warriors at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference with tales of socialists trying to take away their guns, Christian Dominionists were holding an event called "The Turnaround: An Appeal to Heaven National Gathering," at Washington's Trump International Hotel. It featured some of the most prominent Christian Dominionists in the country. Although there are various iterations of Dominionism, Dominionists are united in their belief that conservative Christians should take complete control of all the political, secular and cultural institutions in the country.

Though they are not nearly as well known as Christian Right leaders, such as Jerry Falwell Jr., Franklin Graham and Robert Jeffress Jr., top Dominionist leaders like Dutch Sheets, Chuck Pierce, Cindy Jacobs and Lou Engle are a force worth paying attention to.

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Dutch Sheets, the go-to guy for the event, claimed that it would "play a prophetic role in getting the church to function as Christ's Ekklesia, the representatives of His Kingdom government on earth; as such, we will expose the enemies of God, disrupt their plans, enforce Heaven's rule, and reform America." In 2015, Right Wing Watch pointed out, Sheets said, "We must realize that we are God's governing force on the earth, which have been given keys of authority from Him to legislate from the spiritual realm."

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While the media focused its attention on CPAC, The Turnaround, went relatively unreported. "For decades, the broad theocratic movement we call Dominionism has been rising in plain sight, and now is a close ally of the president of the United States, enjoying access to power that ostensibly more moderate evangelicals can only dream of," Clarkson declared.

Mike Pence, Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, and a host of other Dominionists have silently taken up positions in the Trump Administration. They are biding their time, but their time is nearly at hand. There is real danger lurking, and mainline Christians need to get aware of this and take some action while they still can. So do the rest of us.

[WhiteTara]

1. In 2004 I was desparate

to leave the US because as history noted, people who leave early are able to make a transition, people who flee in the night have a much harder time. Those who stayed to the bitter end were killed in gas chambers or left in DP camps after the war.

If we don't have a different outcome soon, I can see the crazy neighbors in our part of the woods exterminating whoever in coming years(?).

[MineralMan]

2. I don't know what to advise, really.

I'm 72 years old. I can skate through for the rest of my life, if necessary. If I were younger, though, I'd be thinking about such things, for sure.

[WhiteTara]

3. There's nothing to advise.

I'm here. I was younger then and saw this coming; but my life is this.

[mitch96]

4. "Divine Call to War"

oxymoron? or morons...
I'm curious how many government officials, military and law enforcement would take up arms FOR tRump? Knowing they might be killed for a tyrant..
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[MineralMan]

5. I don't know, really how many.

Perhaps more than we think...

[Nitram]

6. They sound like a bunch of deluded nuts with very little political power.

I wouldn't be able to tell you the name of a single "prominent Dominionist." The Evangelical movement has been used by every Republican administration since Reagan, and have gained very little as a result. My view is that they have lost power and credibility by supporting Trump. They are losing support among the young. They are losing ground, not gaining it.