Sky Dancer
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Dominionism is a bible-based sect of Christianity that does not represent mainstream Christians in America, or elsewhere in the world. This is a very powerful, very well-organized and very wealthy religious-political machine that has been driving toward the goal of marrying church and state in America for decades.
Dominionists believe the federal government should recede into the background. This would be achieved through massive tax cuts. Then the Church would assume responsibility for welfare and education. Tax cuts, Faith-based initiatives and school vouchers are the cornerstone of Bush administration domestic policies and recommended in the Texas GOP Platform. These policies are putting the U.S. on the path toward becoming what the Platform calls a "Christian" nation.
My father and those like him still call themselves Republicans - and they are. The Dominionists have co-opted their Party just like they co-opted Christianity; and just like they have redefined words such as patriotism, conservative, progressive and socialism along the way - dramatically changing conservative politics in America today. Their extremism is profoundly un-American.
God, Guns, and Greed
Dominionists believe the federal government should recede into the background. This would be achieved through massive tax cuts. Then the Church would assume responsibility for welfare and education. Tax cuts, Faith-based initiatives and school vouchers are the cornerstone of Bush administration domestic policies and recommended in the Texas GOP Platform. These policies are putting the U.S. on the path toward becoming what the Platform calls a "Christian" nation.
My father and those like him still call themselves Republicans - and they are. The Dominionists have co-opted their Party just like they co-opted Christianity; and just like they have redefined words such as patriotism, conservative, progressive and socialism along the way - dramatically changing conservative politics in America today. Their extremism is profoundly un-American.
God, Guns, and Greed