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In reply to the discussion: Political and Religious Experts Say Evangelical Support for Trump is About More Than Abortion [View all]jmbar2
(7,982 posts)30. Trump is supported by a Christian nationalist movement seeking to create a theocracy.
He does whatever they tell him to do as long as he gets money and gets elected.
Seriously, if you have not been following the Christian Dominionist movement, it's very important to understand what's going on. They are very well organized and holding mass meetings all over the country to take over local government, school boards, elections offices, etc. to usher in theocracy. Trump is their ticket to power.
...todays Christian right is a very real and very well-funded and highly organized institutional movement to end real democracy and create a White Christian theocracy in America and then around the world.
Dominionism is the theocratic idea that Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society by taking control of political and cultural institutions. For me, evangelical Trump supporters hold to dominion as their political theology of power. Now for Christians to exercise dominion, they need to be mobilized to action. This is the purpose of the 7 Mountain Mandate, a marketing strategy popularized (but not invented) by Lance Wallnau, a Pentecostal Christian businessman, regarded as a prophet, an apostle, and a teacher, to mobilize Christians into action and occupy top roles in the spheres (or mountains) of government, education, business, family, arts & entertainment, media, and religion. Dominion will be implemented, when kingdom-minded Christians are positioned at the head of these cultural mountains.
https://www.salon.com/2024/01/31/mobilizing-his-prayer-warriors-religion-scholar-on-what-maga-means-by-spiritual-warfare/
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Political and Religious Experts Say Evangelical Support for Trump is About More Than Abortion [View all]
CarolinaNC
Jan 2024
OP
Growing up steeped deep in Evangelical, Pentecostal New Testament Christianity...
czarjak
Jan 2024
#1
Evangelical, Pentecostal New Testament Christianity sounds like something I want NO part of,
elleng
Feb 2024
#26
Lack of critical thinking skills among evangelical followers make them easy to manipulate by fear and hatred
Freethinker65
Jan 2024
#4
Patriarchy seems to be the root philosophy of all Abrahamic religions.
LastDemocratInSC
Jan 2024
#14
Evangelicals make a lot more sense if you think of them as an offshoot of the gop, not a religion
Takket
Jan 2024
#19