Posted on 03/27/2010 11:00:49 PM PDT by neverdem
Theocracy-watcher Katherine Yurica calls it "the most immoral political program ever adopted by a political movement in this country." At Illuminati Conspiracy Archive, Paul and Phillip Collins say that it "echoes the revolutionary fervor of Robespierre's radical Jacobinism."
The conservative movement is defensive, defeatist, depressed, and apologetic. It lacks self-confidence, virility, energy, intensity, vigor, aggressiveness, vitality, and a firm belief in the rightness of its cause. This is because conservatives have failed to devote the proper amount of energy to developing an alternative cultural world-view opposed to the dominant leftist one.
The result...is a[n American] society that increasingly does not recognize culturally conservative views, and is gradually coming to despise them.
Conservatives must honestly assess the predicament that we are in. We must understand that the American people are no longer on our side, at least not reliably so, and they will be less so as time goes on. But more worrisome still is the fact that conservatives themselves often no longer understand or support a truly culturally conservative vision of America.
A central mission of this movement is to advance a true traditionalist counter-culture based on virtue, excellence, and self-discipline. The New Traditionalists will not be exclusively Christians, but many of them inevitably will be. What binds the New Traditionalists is a belief that each individual has a duty to obey a higher law than his own will and appetite. New Traditionalists reject the materialism, hedonism, consumerism, egoism, and the cult of self-actualization which permeate modern life.
We [conservatives] will never succeed in taking over political structures until we can convince the American people that we can be trusted to take them over, and to do that we must win the people over culturally--by defining how man ought to act, how he ought to perceive the world around him, and what it means to live the good life. Political arrangements can only be formed after these fundamental questions have been answered.
In terms of our long term prospects, because we will be seen as a purely defensive movement, not interested in imposing our views on anyone, only interested in being left alone, we will surely gain the sympathy of the public. The dominant culture will see its life-force being sapped, and it will grow terrified. It will do whatever it takes to destroy its assailant. This will lead to the perception that the dominant leftist culture is empty, hollow, desperate, and has lost its mandate to rule, because its only basis for authority is coercion, much like the communist East Bloc. Sympathy from the American people will increase as our opponents try to persecute us, which means our strength will increase at an accelerating rate due to more defections--and the enemy will collapse as a result.
There are operational libertarians and there are ontological libertarians. There is nothing in this movement that an operational libertarian would find objectionable. It does not seek to replace an intrusive leftist state with an intrusive traditionalist state. [Emphasis added]
Ping.
The “Dominionist” fantasy is simply the Left projecting their very real plans to subjugate the USA onto the right.
This broad probably wouldn't know a Dominionist from a Reconstructionist from a member of Opus Dei. Theocracy, as if she'd recognise it, LOL.
i'll be taking a look at Heubeck's work.
Very interesting, thank you for posting this.
And the 'right' has a secret plan for dominion????
Yurica (and others) claim that Integration calls on Christian conservatives to seize power over an unsympathetic populace by a combination of force, stealth, and dissimulation. But the above quotes clearly show this accusation to be a lie.
The “Dominionist” fantasy is simply the Left projecting their very real plans to subjugate the USA onto the right.
You got there before me. But that's essentially correct.
Leftists so often give themselves away in the charges they hurl against others, which charges are merely shadows of their own self-privileging, amoral, ultimately mass-murderous thought. If you can really call it thought.
A couple of relatives live in a university town and interact with academe all the time. About five years ago I began to be puzzled by references in their speech -- always derogatory of Bush 43, sometimes incandescent -- to "theocracy" on the right, as if they were directly comparing Mr. Bush's little morning prayer sessions to the Iranian mullahs.
Now I think I've discovered the poisoned well they've been drinking from, thanks to the poster.
There IS a “Christian” cabal who maintains its power and influence as a junior partner of the dominant left. These Christians give their support for leftist tyranny in return for the War on Drugs and restrictions on obscenity. The left is nominally pro-drugs and pro-obscenity. But the left’s grip on power is that of a plurality. For now, the left needs to concede these peripheral issues where some “Christians” can access and therefore support the machinery of coercion that mainly serves the left.
The left and some “Christians” also collude on issues of supporting illegal immigration and welfare under a mistaken view of coerced charity. Freely given charity demands accountability, while coerced “charity” breeds dependence and fuels a growing bureaucracy of tyranny.
Unfortunately, whoever is “in charge” wants to push their views beyond the limits. The worst thing that happened to the Roman Empire is when “Christians” went from persecuted to persecutor with the unholy power of the roman state. It never occurred to them to proclaim liberty throughout the land.
I don’t like the left, but the Christian Right in charge would be no bed of roses either unless the power of the State is broken as well, lest we are left with a 4th-5th Century Rome.
I’ve been accused on FR of being a “Dominionist.” ;-)
Rule #1: Leftists write manifestos.
If a manifesto is found, see Rule # 1.
Have you ever considered if Jesus Christ just took over everything right now what the world would be like?
I suspect even the most “righteous” among us would chafe at first at the restrictions we would find ourselves under, which is why the Bible speaks of needing a “tranformation by the renewal of our minds”.
We criticized for example the Taliban for blowing up those big idols of Buddha, erected in Asia. Under Christ, those idols are coming down anyway as well as all idols and temples devoted to false gods. Witchcraft and all occult practises will be done away with. Satan and his demons will be imprisoned and the beast and false prophet cast alive into the lake of fire.
When Christ rules, all evil forms of entertainment will be done away with, dress will become considerably more modest. The arts, painting sculpture, photography if it still existed will be considerably more restricted, no nudes or lurid sexual or violent themes. Habakkuk says “for the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as waters cover the seas”.
There will be no more wars. The Earth will heal and may become almost a paradise. The curse of sin is lifted off of
of creation and the full potential of genetic expression of plants, animals, and people explodes beyond anything we could ever imagine. The Bible speaks of plants bearing differing fruits every month of the year and of other trees with leaves used for healing. So while there may be illnesses at first, the cures will be phenomenal. Animals will become tame, the big cats will eat straw. Snakes won’t bite ect.
Personal behaviors will be restricted, to the point that personal thoughts may be limited somewhat. God will have very strong direct influence. If any man “dies before 100 years of age, it will be said that God has cursed him”. There may be yet expressed rebellions by certain people groups, the Bible speaks of what happens to nations who don’t present themselves yearly in Jerusalem to pay respects and do homage(”there will be no rain”).
Sadly, evil will lurk in the hearts of many, for there is still the need for Christ’s regeneration in every heart. When Satan is loosed “for a season” at the end of 1000 years of Christ’s reign, multitudes will attempt to rebel against Christ and his saints.
American Christians I think need to reprioritze and realize that American freedoms have existed in a 200 to 300 year bubble and that the natural hearts of men are evil and anti-christian. Hence, there would arise such men that would attempt to persecute Christians and destroy our liberties.
Christians are citizens of a higher order than America. Yes we should do what we can, pray, fast, ect so that God turns his judgment away from us, yet eventually God’s Higher order will be imposed on this Earth. As it says in Revelation” and the child was caught up to heaven and from there to rule the nations with a rod of iron.”
The Koine Greek phrase "to be born again" utilizes an adverb [anothen] which is deliberately ambiguous. "By means of this literary device [ambiguity] John (or better Jesus) is able to synthesize two fundamental truths of Christianity: the believer must be "born again" and "from above" (supernaturally)." ("Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek" by David Alan Black, pg. 130)
This is why Nicodemas asks in the next verse "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb?" (John 3:4). Jesus resolves the ambiguity by clarifying: "Except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." (John 3:5) "born of water" refers to natural birth when the amniotic sac ruptures; and "born of the spirit" refers to quickening and rebirth of the believer's spirit.
Decades ago, i read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which dealt with a theocratic group taking over much of the US. At least Atwood did her homework. All through the book (and the movie picked it up too), references were made to Southern Baptist forces attacking government convoys.
i'm not a Southern or any other type of Baptist, but i can understand their concern.
Separation of Church and State is heavily ingrained into Southern Baptist thinking. Even Pat Robertson resigned his ministerial credentials with the Southern Baptist Convention the day before he announced for President in 88.
Funny, i didn't see Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton resign their credentials when they ran.
Maybe that woman is looking for Theocracy in all the wrong places.
Yes the soul/spirit is placed in the flesh at conception, and is described by Luke 1:41 in the conception of Jesus, when John six months in the womb leaped in recognition of Jesus (Holy Spirit) just conceived in Mary. And Paul elaborates further in Hebrews 2:14 of the children being partakers of flesh and blood as was Christ.
And this was not 'new' doctrine as per the question Christ then answers/asks in John 3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, "Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Genesis 2:7 and Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 Jeremiah 1:5, etc...
The left has succeeded in part because they adopted Gramscii’s strategy of making “the long march through the institutions.”
The time has come for us to make the long march through THEIR institutions. In fact, I’m doing it right now as a teacher at a high school. Every year, in every class, there are students fascinated with the ideas of liberty, freedom, limited government, and American exceptionalism - in part because those ideas stand out among the dreck presented everywhere else as accepted wisdom. In those students are the seeds of the destruction of the left. This website does the same sort of thing concerning the role of communication in culture.
Poor, stupid Gramscii, sitting his little prison cell, unable to understand that his strategy could easily be used against his own ideology. The same is true with Saul Alinsky and his little list of tactics.
We all do our part.
DING! DING! DING! DING! Winner!! .... hold all calls, please! We have a winner!
The wife is a huge Atwood fan.
Thanks for bringing that out. Of course, people who get paranoid about the Baptists becoming some kind of Inquisition have to overcome some inconvenient counterfacts, viz. a) the history and doctrine of the Baptists and b) the fact that Bill Clinton is one of the most prominent products of the Southern Baptists.
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