Looking at the "Dominionist" website, I find it interesting that the only name I recognize is this one:
Larry Pratt: head of the Gun Owners of America and English First, a group opposed to non-English speaking immigrants and bilingual education. Author of "Armed People Victorious" which documents Guatemalan and Philippine militias and para-military death squads. He was campaign co-chair of the Buchanan presidential campaign in 1996.
Of course, when they can't even correctly define "antinomianism," I question whether they can get anything right.
I agree that the religioustolerance.org website seems a little shaky on some of the facts (that's why I listed the website I prefer first) but you have to admit that they have a flair for the alarming!
Seriously though, I can confirm from both personal interaction with dominionist and reading their articles and websites that much but not all of what the website details seems to be the case. For example, while some dominionists will defend slavery in the past because they see it as Biblical, I don't know of any "debate" within dominionism about whether or not to reinstitute slavery in a Brave New Theocracy.
On the other hand, some dominionists have not been shy about calling for the execution or exile of gays and lesbians or bringing back other punishments for such things as adultery, idolatry and children's disobedience. My end conclusion - I'm taking them seriously.
"Probably the most subversive and effective strategy we might undertake would be one of militant fecundity: abundant, relentless, exuberant, and defiant childbearing. Given the reluctance of modern men and women to be fruitful and multiply, it would not be difficult, surely, for the devout to accomplishin no more than a generation or twoa demographic revolution. Such a course is quite radical, admittedly, and contrary to the spirit of the age, but that is rather the point, after all. It would mean often forgoing certain material advantages, and forfeiting a great deal of our leisure; it would often prove difficult to sustain a two-career family or to be certain of a lavish retirement. But if it is a war we want, we should not recoil from sacrifice.
I wonder if this may have been said with some sarcasm?
It doesn't seem sarcastic to me when read in context but I've provided the link in the original post above if you'd like to read the whole article and draw your own conclusions.
Can you win a culture war or form your own voting block by simply raising more children with your beliefs/outlook?
I guess it is theoretically possible to "win" by altering the status quo, but the "culture" might not turn out to be the one you wanted. Also, as some of you may know, there is no guarantee that your children will maintain your beliefs/outlook.
I think you're absolutely correct about that. Children often rebel against their parents' values in incredibly creative and frustrating ways. In fact, the dominionist types I've been talking about are really, really frightened that their children might get lured away from them. Here's a favorite example:
"The homosexual movement is by necessity a parasitic movement. Gay men don't reproduce and lesbians only do so with some clever science or helpful friends. Therefore, the gay world is a necessarily barren world and depends on the straight community for its children. Without the children of heterosexuals, the homosexuals could have no next generation. But, despite the homosexual sterility, the gay movement seems to have no shortage of new blood. So where do they all come from? The answer is fairly tragic. They come from the Church.
Christianity has become a spiritually castrated movement. As a Church we are not able to reproduce. We might produce children of the flesh, a host of Ishmaels, but no children of the promise, no Isaacs. Our children grow up in the Church only to lose interest in the faith and to walk away from the blood of Christ and the glories of the New Covenant. We have grown so used to losing our children to unbelief that we have begun to expect it. We expect apostasy so much that we grow skeptical of children who do not abandon the faith. And so the Church has become the incubator for the next generation of homosexuals." Ben MerkleI bet you didn't know this is where all of us gay types are coming from!
