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<DIV>Locally, its not about Jesus, but about Douglas Wilson -- an Antichrist
figure ever if there was one. </DIV>
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<A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nielsen@uidaho.edu
href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu">nielsen@uidaho.edu</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 15, 2010 11:38
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Sarah Palin and
the Religious Right</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Franky, son of eminent Religious Right paterfamilias Francis
Schaeffer, gets his analysis largely right, snarkiness notwithstanding.
Palin is too dumb to be considered a full-fledged Reconstructionist; Wilson
and our other local men of chest are not. Nonetheless, she represents
the late-1980s convergence of Pentecostal "dominion" theology as represented
by the Word of Faith and prosperity gospels, and Recon "dominion" that often
mocks the Pentecostals and their revivalism, emotionalism, and
anti-intellectualism, but sought common cause with the better-known
charismatic dominionists when it became advantageous.<BR><BR>However, it's
important to understand that Recons (Rushdoony, North, Chilton, Wilson, et al)
are post- or, more rarely, a-millennialists. They don't believe in
"getting 'em saved" before the Rapture, they have utter disdain for the
dispensationalist theology of the Left Behind series, and they believe in
transforming -- "taking dominion" over -- this world as a means of ushering in
a literal or metaphorical millennium and a real, physical Second Coming of
Christ. The "dominion" favored by the dispensationalist
Pentecostal/charismatic demographic to which Palin belongs (and which is not
what makes me describe her as "dumb") was initially an entirely apolitical
"dominion" over demons, illness, and individual poverty -- the "prosperity" of
the Word of Faith and prosperity gospels -- and was, in fact, critical of
societal transformation and political involvement. The difference is
between one of saving souls before the trumpet sounds, with a triumphant
goodbye to this world, and another of transforming this world by ushering in a
permanent "retaking of dominion" of the world and its institutions in the name
of Christ, with little regard, thank Calvin, to the saving of individual
souls. The former has its hope in heaven; the latter, on a transformed
world. <BR><BR>Ironically, the Christian social reformers at the turn of
the previous century that Wilson and other Recons so disdain as "godless
haters of the Word" were also post-millennialists. They believed in
transforming society through eliminating poverty, oppression, bigotry and
exploitation, and their emphasis was also on evangelism -- the saving of souls
-- as a means of such transformation. Today's post-mils and Recons seem
less than gripped by the Biblical imperative to save souls and make disciples
and too often focus instead on transforming society by desiring its reimaging
as a haven for propertied male heads of households. Their disregard for
late 19th- and early 20th-century social reformers and reform is as pronounced
as their disregard for "liberal" social movements today, like racial
reconciliation in the Church, that attract other Christians.
<BR><BR>(Well, I find it all fascinating . . . not everyone
does????)<BR><BR><FONT color=#8064a2><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
size=3><FONT
face=Verdana>Keely<BR>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR>>
To: Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> From: nielsen@uidaho.edu<BR>> Date: Fri,
15 Jan 2010 10:48:31 -0800<BR>> Subject: [Vision2020] Sarah Palin and the
Religious Right<BR>> <BR>>
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24394.htm<BR>> <BR>>
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