George W. Bush has called Reconstruction-influenced theoretician Marvin Olasky compassionate conservatisms leading thinker, and Olasky served as one of the presidents key advisers on the creation of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Bush also invited Reconstructionist Jack Hayford, a key figure in the Promise Keepers mens group, to give the benediction at his first inaugural. Deposed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, though his office wont comment on his religious views, governs with what he calls a biblical worldviewone of Reconstructions signature phrases. And, for conspiracy buffs, two heavy contributors to the Chalcedon FoundationReconstructions main think tankare Howard Ahmanson and Nelson Bunker Hunt, both of whose families played key roles in financing electronic voting machine manufacturer Election Systems & Software. Ahmanson is also a major sponsor of ultraconservative politicians, including California state legislator and 2003 gubernatorial candidate Tom McClintock.
Yet for all its influence, Reconstruction is almost invisible to the media and secular society. Atlanta is ground zero for most Reconstruction activityhome office to DeMars publishing house and home district to movement prophet Larry McDonald, who served four terms in Congress in the 1970s and 1980sbut the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has done only one major article on the movement. The entire Lexis-Nexis database includes only 43 articles from all of the U.S. media that make reference to Reconstruction, and only a handful of those explore the movement. A hundred years ago, newspapers published the sermons preachers preached on Sunday, notes Ed Larson, a University of Georgia historian. Everyone knew what the Baptists believed, or the Lutherans or the Presbyterians. Thats no longer the case. And it has worked to the benefit of Reconstructionists as they doggedly pursued their goal.
Reconstructionists arent shy about what exactly it is they are pursuing: The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise, Gary North, a top Reconstruction theorist, wrote in his 1989 book, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism. Those who refuse to submit publicly must be denied citizenship.
Besides facilitating evangelism, Reconstructionists believe, government should largely be limited to building and maintaining roads, enforcing land-use contracts, and ensuring just weights and measures. Unions would not exist, and neither would unemployment benefits, Social Security, and environmental protection laws. Public schools would disappear; one of the movements great successes has been promoting homeschooling programs and publishing texts used by tens of thousands of homeschooling families. And, perhaps most importantly, the state is Gods minister, as DeMar puts it in Liberty at Risk, taking vengeance out on those who do evil. A major task for the government key Reconstructionists envision is fielding armies for conquest in the name of Jesus.
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You are getting into other beliefs and philosophies besides Christianity. these are complex issues with Merritt on all sides of the argument. How about sticking to the issues directly related to Theocracy.