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[personal profile] jarandhel

It's still very much a work in progress, but I've started putting together a list of known Dominionist charity organizations, based in large part on the NOLA Biglist by dogemperor, but expanded and updated, and with additional sourcing where possible. It's in wiki format, so anyone with additional information can add to it. Please also feel free to comment here if you have suggestions or information relevant to this project.

For those who aren't already familiar with it, the NOLA biglist can be found here, with an update here.

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[personal profile] jarandhel
Excellent article by Brynn Tannehill on The Huffington Post concerning the Trump administration's enactment of a five-part plan by the Family Research Council to morally legislate the transgender community out of existence.  For some reason the article was removed from The Huffington Post website a few days after it was published, but I was able to find an archived copy here.
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[personal profile] jarandhel

Very good new article about Dominionism by the Southern Poverty Law Center: Hate In God's Name.

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I think something a lot of people researching Dominionism miss are the strong ties between Dominionism and white supremacist groups. Here are a selection of links that go into these ties:
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[personal profile] lunadelcorvo
It’s Time to Start Calling Evangelicals What They Are: The American Taliban

This is an excellent piece on the theocratic trend in the US. The author slightly (I think) misinterprets some of the casual signs; he says 'I'll pray for you' is a hallmark of theocratic theology, whereas I tend to think that's more a universal sort of evangelical smugness. But he is very much correct that there are a whole array of 'coded' phrases that do indeed denote dominionist or reconstructionist leanings. He also misses that a lot of people repeat these ideas without really knowing what they signify. There is a documented practice, known as 'steeple-jacking,' by which dominionists join a mainstream church, and over time try to sway it towards their own views (yet another topic on which I plan to post a longer & more detailed piece). But the result is that church members often don't realize that the phrases they hear on Sunday are meant literally, rather in the sense that any Christian might talk about the kingdom of God as a metaphor for the faithful or for heaven. Nevertheless, his core point stands.

The other pieces it links to, in particular this piece in the Washington Post offer some good background on the Council for National Policy, a secretive neo-con Christian group that has urged the administration to eliminate the Dep't of Education (HR 899 has already been proposed and can be viewed at Congress.gov.) and turn school over to private entities in order to 'advance the Kingdom of God.'

Also of interest are the videos at the end of the article dealing with the Seven Mountains Mandate, a theological structure that provides a plan of action for taking over all of society beginning with seven core areas (the metaphorical 'Mountains'), of culture, including government arts & media, education, and of course, business! I'll be doing a more detailed piece on Seven Mountains or 7M theology soon, but the videos there are an excellent overview.

I will say that I am thrilled to see these issues seemingly coming back into journalistic awareness; the more voices amplifying this information, the better. These groups succeed because they hide, and because we *want* to dismiss them as fringe. We want to say 'oh, surely they don't mean that literally!' But they do, and the more people talking about it, the better chance we have of stopping this insanity....

Why We're Here

“The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.”
― Gustavo Gutiérrez

Simply put, we are here to shine a light on the hidden activities of those who would remake the US or any nation into a Christian theocracy, and come together to resist these agendas.

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