Dominion Theology, Christian Reconstructionism, and the New Apostolic Reformation
How cross-pollination helped build the religious right.
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Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally
The people who gathered at Reliant Stadium are not just Rick Perry’s spiritual army, raised up, as Perry and others imagine it, in the spirit of Joel 2 to sound an alarm and prepare the people for Judgment Day. They are the ground troops the religious right set out four decades ago to create, and duplicate over generations, for the ongoing culture wars.
Read MorePerry Prayer Event “Getting Traction” with Religious Right Elites
More religious right leaders sign up.
Read MoreRick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation
Nothing new, only a little bit different.
Read MoreThe Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors
Support for his prayer rally? Check. For a presidential bid? We’ll see.
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The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s
What the Texas governor’s “The Response” is all about.
Read MoreKyl Demands Condemnation of “Violent or Hateful Rhetoric,” But Doesn’t Follow Own Advice
But Republican Senate Whip doesn’t condemn the violent rhetoric in his own party.
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Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry
The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.
Read MoreThe Islamophobia Industrial Complex
It long predates Beck.
Read MoreTheory that Palin Dog-Whistled Christian Zionists is Wrong
“Blood libel” was not an effort to “align” herself with Jews.
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