Dominionism

DOMINIONISM

Read the Council for National Policy Page and Thread to see how pervasive this movement is.

American United for Separation of Church and State and Political Research Associates follows it closely. PAR’s Rob Boston: “Dominionists are the most extreme faction of the Religious Right — they’re people who literally embrace the concept of theocratic government,” Rob Boston told me in an email. “They’re latter-day Puritans with modern-day technology, and they would make this country an officially ‘Christian’ one by force if necessary. Of course, their definition of Christianity is so extreme that it would exclude millions of Americans who attend mainline churches.” What unites the “religious right,” under Boston’s definition, is its theocratic mission.

“The people who belong to this movement go by different names — Reconstructionists, Theonomists, Dominionists — but they all share a common belief: Our republican form of government should be replaced with a Christian fundamentalist theocracy.” Religious Dominionism Leaders: Dutch Sheets, Chuck Pierce, Cindy Jacobs and Lou Engle. People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch say they, “are associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, which believes a triumphant, dominion-taking church will help bring about the return of Christ, and many are part of POTUS Shield, a network of self-described apostles and prophets who believe President Trump was anointed by God to help bring that all about.”Truthout

Howard Ahmanson, Jr.-CNP, Fieldstead Pres., Rutherford Inst. Founder, Claremont Institute with wife Roberta Green, The Chalcedon Institute (1965 think tank of Religious Right), donor to Paul Weyrich’s Free Congress Foundation and Council on Foreign Relations 1990-93 (David Rockefeller)

Nelson Bunker Hunt, CNP President 1983-84

How Dominionists Gained Control Of The Trump Campaign HuffPost September 1, 2016

 

The Council for National Policy (to which Kellyanne, Bannon, the DeVos family, the Mercers, Pence, Ken Blackwell, and two men whose families funded the largest voting machine vendor in the U.S.) has set a deadline of 2020 for restoring “religion and economic freedom and Judeo-Christian values” under the Constitution. Dec 27, 2017 By Jennifer S. Cohn Citations updated July 20, 2018December 27, 2017 Citations updated July 20, 2018.  https://extranewsfeed.com/americas-taliban-the-council-for-national-policy-to-which-kellyanne-bannon-the-devos-family-7465f1754ca4

“Howard Ahmanson, Jr.- CNP Board of Governors (1996). Member, Council for National Policy; major financial supporter and board member, Chalcedon; President of Fieldstead and Co.; Fieldstead Foundation; Board of Directors, Claremont Institute. Ahmanson is an Orange County financier who inherited Home Savings of America from his father, has spent millions (over $4 million) promoting far-right candidates, first in California and then nationwide.

Ahmanson served for more than 20 years on the board of the Chalcedon Institute in Vallecito, California, a think tank devoted to the teachings of its leader, the Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony(CNP). The 80-year-old Rushdoony is the father of a movement called Christian Reconstructionism, which holds that Christianity should hold dominion over all earthly affairs. [McMahon] Ahmanson helped found The Rutherford Institute and is a major donor to Free Congress Foundation; The Ahmanson Foundation was a contributor to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), according to 1990-1993 Annual Reports.

The Fieldstead Institute helped to fund the book “Restorers of Hope”,written by Amy L. Sherman, which is a PR piece for Welfare Reform’s Charitable Choice [1996] which allows state/federal funding to flow into churches. In a radio interview Sherman said that Christians were involved in writing that section of the legislation. When asked in a phone interview who they were and she said Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation and the Center for Public Justice. The book doesn’t mention it, but Sherman works part time at the Rockefeller-funded Manhattan Institute for Public Policy[New York] which has cross-over people with both Brookings Institute and Hudson Institute[ Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn]. The Manhattan Institute’ Center for Civic Innovation CCIis involved in Education Reform, Welfare Reform as well as the Jeremiah Project.””

http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.a.htm#ahmanson[Howard Ahmanson — CNP member 1984–85, 1988, 1996, 1998–7/20/18 UPDATE — THIS LINK HAS RECENTLY BEEN DISABLED].

“Howard Ahmanson, Jr.-CNP Member 1984-85, 1988, Board of Governors 1996, 1998. President of Fieldstead and Co.; Fieldstead Foundation; chair of the California Independent Business PAC. Ahmanson is and Orange County financier who inherited Home Savings of America from his father, has spent millions promotion Religious Right candidates, first in California and then nationwide. Ahmanson has been a major contributor to the Capitol Resource Institute, 6 the California political front of Focus on the Family; the Western Center for Law and Religious Freedom, the Reason Foundation, (an offshoot of Reason Public Policy Insitute (RPPI) and the California Pro-life Council Inc.

Ahmanson Helped found The Rutherford Institute and is a major donor to Paul Weyrich’s Free Congress Foundation; The Ahmanson Foundation was a contributor to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) (1990-1993) See David Rockefeller

A Board member for the Claremont Institute, wife, Roberta Green also member of Claremont Institute board. Newport Beach, CA.; Ahmanson also served 23 years (retired 1995) on the board of the Chalcedon Institute in Vallecito, California, which Newsweek (February 2, 1981) accurately identified as the think tank of the Religious Right. The Chalcedon Institute, to which Ahmanson has contributed over a million dollars, was founded in 1965,perpetuates the Dominionist/Reconstructionist/Kindom Now beliefs of founder Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony who was also a member of the CNP. Rushdoony, who died February 8, 2001…”

  1. Hunt & Ahmanson were both major contributors to the Chalcedon Foundation, Christian Reconstruction’s main think tank.

A Nation Under God The Nation Let others worry about the rapture: For the increasingly powerful Christian Reconstruction movement, the task is to establish the Kingdom of God right now?from the courthouse to the White House. JOHN SUGG DECEMBER 2005

  1. The goal of Christian Reconstruction — also known as “Dominionism” — is to transform America into a theocracy by “dismantling” our current government and replacing it with a “social order based on biblical law.”
    Secrets of the extreme religious right: Inside the frightening world of Christian Reconstructionism The zealots pushing a horrifying vision of “religious freedom” really have in mind a new biblical slavery Salon PAUL ROSENBERG. JULY 31, 2015

Premier/Diebold (Dominion) AccuVote TS & TSx  …[“Diebold acquired Global Election Systems (GES) in January 2002. GES was renamed Diebold Election Systems (DES), and Robert Urosevich, who had been President of GES, became the CEO of DES.”]/End Jennifer Cohn, continued on pages above, the Religious Right,  ELECTRONIC VOTING has the history of Diebold and ES&S

Christian Dominionists Meet at Trump’s Washington Hotel to Answer the “Divine Call to War” BY Bill Berkowitz,Truthout 

March 9, 2018 “Last month [February 22, 2018], while NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre was regaling culture warriors at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference with tales of socialists trying to take away their guns, Christian Dominionists were holding an event called “The Turnaround: An Appeal to Heaven National Gathering,” at Washington’s Trump International Hotel. It featured some of the most prominent Christian Dominionists in the country. Although there are various iterations of Dominionism, Dominionists are united in their belief that conservative Christians should take complete control of all the political, secular and cultural institutions in the country.

Though they are not nearly as well known as Christian Right leaders, such as Jerry Falwell Jr., Franklin Graham and Robert Jeffress Jr., top Dominionist leaders like Dutch Sheets, Chuck Pierce, Cindy Jacobs and Lou Engle are a force worth paying attention to.

Those leaders, according to People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch, “are associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, which believes a triumphant, dominion-taking church will help bring about the return of Christ, and many are part of POTUS Shield, a network of self-described apostles and prophets who believe President Trump was anointed by God to help bring that all about.

“The great irony of this movement,” Boston explained, ‘is that, like other Religious Right groups, it has hitched itself to Donald Trump, perhaps the most amoral, un-Christlike man ever to occupy the White House. Dominionists tend to interpret the most mundane events through the lens of what they consider to be biblical prophecy, and in a desperate ploy to cover their actions, some of them argue that God is using Trump as his instrument.’

In a recent speech at a luncheon in Nashville, hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List and Life Issues Institute, an anti-abortion organization, Vice President Mike Pence told the enthralled audience that abortion will be outlawed “in our time.” [Speech Here]

“I just know in my heart of hearts this will be the generation that restores life in America,” Pence said. “I truly do believe [i]f all of us do all that we can, then we will once again, in our time, restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law.”

Whether Pence is right about that is yet to be determined. However, there is no question that the broader Christian Right, which includes the New Apostolic Reformation, is serious about pushing conservative judicial appointments, which could lead to making abortion illegal again, and not just the halting of the expansion of LGBTQ rights, but even the reversal of marriage equality.

“Many of these rights are hanging by one vote on the Supreme Court, Americans United’s Boston pointed out. ‘If Trump gets another appointment, it could tip the balance and empower Religious Right legal groups to reopen issues we thought were long-settled. Even under its current makeup, there’s no guarantee that the court [will not] adopt a theory of ‘religious freedom’ that allows entire classes of people to be discriminated against, denied medical treatment or treated like second-class citizens because of someone else’s religion.’”

Dutch Sheets (dutchsheets.org)-The Department of Justice and the FBI are trying to destroy Trump’s presidency (echoed by Rev. Franklin Graham).

Lou Engle-“The Call“pray to “Sweep” the DOJ & SCOTUS of Roe v. Wade-upholding judges, “take up our rod of authority”