Cruz-allies want to turn US into ISIS-style theocracy with slavery and public executions

[DetlefK]

Summary:

1. A few examples for what the Dominionist movement wants the US to be like:
* rule over other people like kings
* transfer of wealth from bottom to the top
* slavery
* public executions for adulterers, homosexuals, blasphemers, un-chaste women, and witches

2. The Dominionist movement explicitly commands its followers to infiltrate governments to pave the way for this theocracy.

3. Ted Cruz has to this day close links to the Dominionist movement.


Add these up. What do you get?






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http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cruz-super-pac-head-promotes-biblical-slavery-non-christians
(very long article)


"I believe God has raised him up for a time like this," declares Cruz' campaign surrogate and father Rafael Cruz, who predicts that god-anointed kings, blessed by priests, will bring about a future, great transfer of wealth, from the godless to the godly—a theme apparently lifted from the dominionist movement known as the NAR.

"Ted Cruz's campaign is fueled by a dominionist vision for America," charged a recent Washington Post op-ed. "Stop Calling Ted Cruz a Dominionist," petulantly complained a subsequent Christianity Today article.

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For David Barton, Cruz' super PAC head (and the top evangelical power broker behind Cruz by one media account), this is no joke. It's a serious question for which Barton's website offers a serious, bible-based answer—an American may enslave both Mexicans and Canadians, but only if they're pagans.

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Next, at least five members of Ted Cruz "Religious Liberty Advisory Council" have in various ways promoted "Seven Mountains" dominionism, which encourages believers to use sneaky and covert methods take control of key sectors of society; and three are in a global dominionist movement which teaches that believers are to "invade," "infiltrate," and "subdue" secular society and "rule like kings."

And Cruz hasn't shied away from dominionist venues.

In early 2016, Ted Cruz made two high-profile appearances (1, 2) at one of the most significant dominionist churches in America, whose pastor has repeatedly over the years emphasized that a small minority of Christians as dedicated as Lenin's revolutionary Bolsheviks could take the nation, and who prophesies a coming Christian government that may at first "seem like totalitarianism"—until Americans have been forcibly re-educated and trained to properly behave (after which things will loosen up a bit).

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This isn't a new thing; during the 1980s the Christian Coalition distributed the following Pat Robertson memo:

How to Participate in a Political Party

* Rule the world for God.
* Give the impression that you are there to work for the party, not push an ideology.
* Hide your strength.
* Don't flaunt your Christianity.
* Christians need to take leadership positions. Party officers control political parties and so it is very important that mature Christians have a majority of leadership positions, God willing.

Now, three decades later, you can spit in the general direction of the Cruz for President effort and hit a dominionist.

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"We need divine strategies to infiltrate the systems of the world and to effectively work within them. Once the spiritual gates have opened to us, we need great wisdom to steward and distribute the resources God funnels our way."

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Now, theocracy isn't just about slavery and witches. It has a secular economic agenda too. Did Jesus oppose the minimum wage? Yes, says David Barton.

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The Wallbuilders article cites the founding manifesto of the overtly theocratic (or "theonomic&quot Christian Reconstructionism movement—which fuses a Koch-brothers style radically libertarian economic agenda with a plan to impose Old Testament civil law—for example, by instituting the death penalty (perhaps by stoning) for adulterers, homosexuals, blasphemers, un-chaste women, and witches.

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The McDowell article explicitly spells out the four "Types of Slavery Permitted by the Bible." Number four?—"pagans could be permanent slaves." As justification, McDowell cites Leviticus 25:44-46:

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you... You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves.

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[avebury]

1. KR nt

[Fast Walker 52]

2. he's a creepy ass son-of-a-bitch, who has zero chance of being elected president

Dominionists can kiss my ass.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Read / see "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. Being remade as TV series

with her blessing.

Published 1985, never out of print, adapted to cinema, radio, opera, and stage. Multiple awards.

Contains slavery and public executions in a dominionist theocracy.

[Pakhet]

7. yep. that's the result and the first thing that popped into my mind. n/t

[rpannier]

4. Misread your op line

for a second there I though Ted Cruz was claiming that the UIS and it's allies were trying to turn the US into an ISIS theocracy
I was gonna say something like, "He really is that clueless."

[lostnfound]

5. If Cruz is the GOP nominee I will definitely positively do whatever it takes to vote for

Whatever it takes to get out and vote for the democratic nominee.

[AllyCat]

6. Creepy, nasty little man