Here's the sort of Hypocrisy we can look forward to...

"President George W. Bush may treat his election victory as a clear mandate for tax cuts for the wealthy, traditional moral values and an aggressive, unilateralist foreign policy. Or he may treat it as an opportunity to heal a nation bitterly divided over his leadership and the role of government.

For the good of the nation, Mr. Bush should extend his hand across the electoral chasm. He made a good start Wednesday when he told supporters of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., that he wanted to earn their trust.

But House Majority leader Tom DeLay, R-Tex., has other plans. "We're going to be able to lead this country in the direction we've been dreaming of for years," Mr. DeLay said Wednesday. ". . . We're going to put God back into the public square."" [emphasis mine]

from: Recent St. Louis Dispatch Editorial

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Tom DeLay, Ethical Recidivist

Blog entry of the Day:

My e-mail to Jerry Falwell: "a more evil person than any 'liberal'"

What life will, I mean would be like under Dominionism

"If they [Reconstructionists / Dominionists] gained control of the US or Canadian federal government, there would be many changes:

"The use of the death penalty would be greatly expanded, when the Hebrew Scriptures' laws are reapplied. People will be executed for adultery, blasphemy, heresy, homosexual behavior, idolatry, prostitution, evil sorcery (some translations say Witchcraft), etc. The Bible requires those found guilty of these "crimes" to be either stoned to death or burned alive. Reconstructionists are divided on the execution method to be used.

"A church or congregation which does not accept the Mosaic Law has another god before them, and is thus guilty of idolatry. That would be punishable by death. That would include all non-Christian religious organizations. At the present time, non-Christians total two-thirds of the human race.

"The status of women would be reduced to almost that of a slave as described in the Hebrew Scriptures. A woman would initially be considered the property of her father; after marriage, she would be considered the property of her husband.

"It would be logical to assume that the institution of slavery would be reintroduced, and regulated according to Biblical laws. Fathers could sell their daughters into slavery. Female slaves would retain that status for life. People who owned slaves would be allowed to physically abuse them, as long as they did not beat them so severely that they died within three days.

"Polygyny and the keeping of concubines were permitted in the Old Testament. However, Reconstructionists generally believe in marriage between one man and one woman only. Any other sexual expression would be a capital crime. Those found guilty of engaging in same-sex, pre-marital or extra-marital sex would be executed.

"The Old Testament "Jubilee Year" system would be celebrated once more. Every 50 years, the control of all land reverted to its original owners. This would require every part of North American land to be returned to the original Aboriginal owners (or perhaps to those persons of Aboriginal descent who are now Christians). Hawaii would be given back to the native Hawaiians.

"Governments would all have balanced budgets

"Income taxes would be eliminated

"The prison system would be eliminated. A system of just restitution would be established for some crimes. The death penalty would be practiced for many other crimes. There would be little need for warehousing of convicted criminals.

"Legal abortions would be banished; those found to be responsible for illegal abortions would be executed."

from: http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm

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My LJ 'Interests' alone would condemn me.

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"Reconstructionists realize that, sooner or later, there is bound to be a backlash against the kind of society that they intend to create. Many of the people in the anti-abortion terrorist underground – the people who bomb abortion clinics and shoot abortion providers -- are Reconstructionists who have grown impatient with the slow pace of reform through involvement in the political process. They are already taking the law into their own hands.



"Most Reconstructionists seem to be biding their time until public sentiment turns decisively against the kind of reforms they are seeking. When that happens, I believe that some, if given the opportunity, will be willing to take up arms and wage another civil war. Their literature indicates that they believe that their actions can be morally and theologically justified if they can follow a lesser magistrate who claims to follow biblical law while refusing to submit to a rule of law that is imposed by a secular constitutional authority. It appears to me that Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore has been trying to spark this kind of crisis for the past several years with his plaques and monuments to the ten commandments."

http://www.mainstreambaptists.org/dominionism.htm

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A Christian argument against Dominionism:

"The Reconstructionist idea that Christians should seek elected office, and other careers in the various levels of civil government, is also a biblically untenable position."