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    Evangelical Christians are Brainwashed Adherents of Dominion Theology

    Evangelical Christians believe...

    They believe they are an active part of their god’s plan to “subdue the earth”, and they will try to achieve this “glory” at any cost.

    Genesis 1 :28

    "היו פריים והתרבו, והשלמו את הארץ והכניעו, ושלטו על דגי הים ועל עופות האוויר, ועל כל דבר חי שנע על פני האדמה."

    Dominion theology urges its adherents to seize all facets of society in order to hasten the “second coming” of their deity.

     

    God's plan is for His people, ladies and gentlemen, to take dominion. . . .What is dominion? Well, dominion is Lordship. He wants His people to reign and rule with Him. . . but He's waiting for us to. . . extend His dominion. . . .And the Lord says, "I'm going to let you redeem society. There'll be a reformation. . . .We are not going to stand for those coercive utopians in the Supreme Court and in Washington ruling over us any more. We're not gonna stand for it. We are going to say, 'we want freedom in this country, and we want power. . . .'"

    —Pat Robertson

     

    ~OGD~

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    Josh Hawley

    In multiple speeches, an interview and a widely shared article for Christianity Today, Mr. Hawley has explained that the blame for society’s ills traces all the way back to Pelagius — a British-born monk who lived 17 centuries ago. In a 2019 commencement address at the King’s College, a small conservative Christian college devoted to “a biblical worldview,” Mr. Hawley denounced Pelagius for teaching that human beings have the freedom to choose how they live their lives and that grace comes to those who do good things, as opposed to those who believe the right doctrines.

    The most eloquent summary of the Pelagian vision, Mr. Hawley went on to say, can be found in the Supreme Court’s 1992 opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Mr. Hawley cited Justice Anthony Kennedy’s words reprovingly. “At the heart of liberty,” Justice Kennedy wrote, “is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” The fifth-century church fathers were right to condemn this terrifying variety of heresy, Mr. Hawley argued: “Replacing it and repairing the harm it has caused is one of the challenges of our day.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/josh-hawley-religion-democracy.html


    Wasting few words...

    Mr Hawley is a grifting crank.

    ~OGD~


    Hawley: "I'll tell you what to think".


      I thought Pelagius' denied original sin and said that we don't need divine grace for salvation. I don't know if he was anything like a modern civil libertarian as Hawley seems to think.


    Jeez, you guys are some weighty mofos - i just made it through some Nietzsche and a bit of Foucault. But ask me who played on which album!


    If he doesn't like Pelagius, Hawley better ditch all the Deists amongst the Founders who bought into all that "pursuit of happiness" stuff.

    The baby and the bathwater are not so easily parted. A person can only represent the intentions and desires of some others if that person gives voice to what is hoped to be heard. If the only truth available comes from outside of those people being represented, that cancels the whole enterprise.

    Even Cromwell didn't try to play that game.


    Interesting point

    Thanks


    Uh, babies & bathwater are pretty easily separated every day. It's those rash volatile motions that in general cause the troubles (cf N Ireland), not seeing the forest for the trees or the baby for the bathwater - more a problem of myopia or obsessive (selective) focus. But then, that's the trademark of the GOP, so waddaya expect?


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