(October 24, 2015 at 7:44 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: This movement is real, and there are thousands of them. Nearly all Evangelicals (making up nearly 1/4 of the American population) are also Dominionist. They pray constantly for the day when their church will control the governments of not just America . . . Jesus is supposed to come back and rule over the entire world. The only difference between them and ISIS is willing to use guns and risk their lives. The Evangelicals could get there . . . it's a scary thought.
That's so true, and it's something history can back up
A lot of these Evangelical right-wingers will oppose Islamic views in favour of Christian ones, because they see Christianity as relatively benign and peaceful.
What they can't work out is that Christianity only looks benign and peaceful today because secularism has stripped away it's political clout. Go back to late medieval/early modern Europe, you find a totally different picture, one that is disturbingly similar to the modern Middle East.
Although their most basic views on prophets, forms of worship, and holy events are different, in terms of moral values and views on society Christianity and Islam are as good as the same religion. You give either religion political power to run a country, you will get the exact same results.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
