What's in A Name?
A movement that seeks to "exercise godly dominion... over every aspect and institution of human society" is not conservative, yet, in the media, the term "conservative" is regularly used. The Free Congress Foundation, a leading organization of this yet-to-name movement, published a strategic plan declaring:
Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive. We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them, and eventually destroy them. No, it's definitely not conservative. Over the years, the term "religious right" has been widely used. Sociologist Sara Diamond recognized dominion as a political goal and introduced the term dominionism to define a movement whose goal is to eventually occupy all secular institutions, including government, until Christ returns. Chip Berlet and Margaret Quigley used the term "theocratic right" to distinguish the theocratic arm of the religious right from Christian Conservatives in general. Michelle Goldberg introduced "Christian Nationalist" into the vernacular and Chris Hedges writes about "Christian fascism." Some say the "radical religious right" and others say "religious extremists." I saw a phrase in a post by Fred Clarkson recently that caught my fancy, so I've been using it lately: religious supremacists. I think that phrase aptly describes people who believe they hold the only truth, and, "As the vice regents of God,"
are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.
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