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In reply to the discussion: The Dominionist movement has got to be stopped. [View all]VAliberal
(297 posts)Dominionists and Christian Reconstructionists, theonomists in general, are in fact not looking for a rapture. That is what makes them such a threat to a secular democracy. Their eschatological orientation is postmillennial. That is, they expect the kingdom of God to expand and grow in human history. Christ will return in their scheme, but only after a long while, perhaps tens of thousands of years, of Christian dominion, of the imposition of God's law in all spheres of human life and thought.
Premillennial believers in the rapture don't have any long term prospect or philosophy of history. Their worldview is limited by the expectation that world conditions will worsen until the rapture, tribulation and final return of Jesus to establish a literal 1000 year global government in Jerusalem, followed by a final judgment and eternity.
Dominionists expect to impose their view of God's law in government. They are very self-conscious & self-aware of their worldview and strategy. They are deliberately subversive. They are intent on destroying secularism and liberal democracy.
Premillennialists and postmillennialists (dominionists) are two different critters. Both are pernicious in a democracy, in my estimation. But in terms of the political threat to America, the dominionists are more dangerous because they have no plans on going anywhere, but in fact have some real long-range plans for the U.S. and the world and after a generation of playing from the outside, we now have them in government - Cruz being a prime example.