Not only is a leader who has experienced authentic heart transformation able to live a godly life, he or she also endeavors to model counterintuitive servant leadership, rather than domination or control, and to empower the least of society instead of mounting a quest for power.

According to author and social critic Os Guinness, the primary issue is “learning how to live with our deepest differences, especially when they involve matters of faith; it’s about justice, not ‘just us.’”

I know evangelicals for whom this is true. There are even evangelicals who take political stances with which I disagree who do so out of a desire to improve their community rather than out of a desire to impose God’s Will on the resistant.

But yes, oh yes, there are dominionists.

Excuse me??? We absolutely ARE talking about Pat Robertson and Rick Warren! He is C Peter Wagners star pupil. As a matter of fact, his college thesis is about dominionism/reconstructionism, and the inspiration for his purpose-driven book.He describes himself as a Kuyper Calvinist. Ted Haggert is high level NAR. This movement is now being spread by AFA, FOF and FRC and all their state chapters. This has been a 30 year old stealth operation.

Read Sarah Diamond, Yurica Report, Orrel Steinkamp, Sourcewatch, Talk to Action…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousas_John_Rushdoony

“Rushdoony’s work has been used by Dominion Theology advocates who attempt to implement a Christian theocracy, a government subject to Biblical law, especially the Torah, in the United States. Authority, behavioural boundaries, economics, penology and the like would all be governed by biblical principles in Rushdoony’s vision, but he also proposed a wide system of freedom, especially in the economic sphere, and claimed Ludwig von Mises as an intellectual mentor; he called himself a Christian libertarian.”

The literature they try and share only among themselves makes it clear that, like the cuckoo, their hidden agenda is something that normal Christians would find horrific, but is a shared policy with cuckoos in most big religions, and contrary to those religions as well.

There is a need for especially the real fundamentalists of each religion to out and shun their cuckoos, but it is those very folks that the camouflage is most aimed at, and thus the most blind to the issue.

For the rest of us IMHO this is the metaphor most likely to be able to remove the blinders, and the best universal description that other religions not be defined as the agenda of the cuckoos among them as well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/dominionism-beliefs-among-conservative-christians-overblown/2011/08/17/gIQAb5eaNJ_story.html

Don’t forget Michele and the lot, appeared on Brian Fischer’s program at the AFA.

Goldberg is correct in that these fringe thoughts are not a true representation of evangelicals in America…but…Mon Dieu! But, these wily charlatans do have the capacity to nudge their way into the files of the elite that surround these people.

This is why I say a pray before I go to bed,”Dear Lord, Please protect me from your most ardent adherents. Amen.”

When you’re a serious candidate for the presidency and you’re espousing views that are so far to the right and so opposed to the history of govt. in the USA, to accuse Maddow of being “ahistorical” is ludicrous and worse, dangerous.

Thanks for correcting this dangerous Salon distortion of the truth.