Daily Kos: Deconstructing the Dominionists
Part I
Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 01:02:30 PM PDT
Welcome to this multi-part critical review of the recently published booklet, America, Return to God, edited by "The Chinese Billy Graham," Thomas Wang. This collection of essays by prominent leaders of the far Christian right has one simple thesis: America must return to its Christian roots or die. In the forthcoming installments of this series, we will work our way through the essays in this booklet, critique them, and offer a progressive Christian alternative.
What is at stake here are two very different understandings of the Bible, American history, and Christianity itself, specifically what it means to be a Christian in a cosmopolitan society. The Dominionists claim absolute validity and exclusivity for Christians, relegating adherents of any other religion to second-class status (or worse), they place the blame for America's failings and problems squarely at the feet of the political and social left, whom they regard as dangerous anti-Christian radicals. The Christian left, on the other hand, celebrates the diversity of the world's religions while affirming our own commitment to the Christian tradition, we value and affirm the religious experience of our fellow Americans as well as their right to worship (or not worship) according to their own conscience, and we reaffirm our commitment to the principles of the Enlightenment and of the Founders - reason, tolerance, respect for science, personal liberty, and religious freedom.
Part V
by Mahanoy
by Mahanoy
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