Reply #69: Um, no, it isn't [View All]

Do you know anything at all about Dominionism/Christian Reconstructionism?

These people (actually a very small but very highly-placed group of religious leaders) seek to subsume the United States Constitution with Biblical law. Religious motivations, under their rule, would become mjore important than whether xyz action is actually legal or not. So long as it is biblical, to them, it is legal.

Under Dominionism, Biblical law- Old Testament law, at that- would reign as the supreme law of the land. Every member of this board would either be given a single chance to "repent and recant", or be killed outright. I, as a gay man, would either be stoned to death by these people, or burned at the stake.

Christian Dominionists are just as dangerous to the US as Islamic Wahabbists who enforce Sharia law are to Muslim nations. I am not overstating the case when I say that these people desire nothing less than the total and complete destruction of the secular United States. For them, prayer in school would not go far enough, no- both history and science would be, under them, taught through an exclusively Biblical lens. Music classes would focus solely upon specifically religious works; art courses would require students to depict strictly religious themes. AP literature courses would be brought to an end, to be replaced by mandatory Bible classes.

I do not go far enough. These people want to take religious control of all functions of the State and make this their version of what a "Christian nation" looks like. Were they to actually try to follow through with this (and, each year, some crackpot in Congress reintroduces the so-called 'Constitution Restoration Act' to attempt exactly that), we would all see their actions as treason the like of which we had never seen.

Dominionists are a very real danger to the USA, although thankfully their numbers are as yet far too small, and their intentions far too extreme, to have the impact upon the public they desire.

But like them? As bad as them? I hope I've educated you on this subject a bit, because from your comment it's clear you didn't know what these people are really all about. I'm not going to flame you for it, though- in spite of the fact that they are happy to explain their intentions to you, individually, were you to actually ask one of them, they do tend to keep those same intentions away from the public eye. Honestl, I'm surprised as many people know about the Dominionists as do in the first place. It's generally not considered politic to consider the wanton destruction of one's own country.