The Christian Right and the Rising Power of the Evangelical Political Movement
by Amy Goodman

Over the last few decades… radical religious broadcasters, who have essentially taken control of the airwaves, have built a parallel information and entertainment service that [promotes a very frightening ideology .] If you look at the ideology that pervades this movement, and the term we use for it is dominionism, it comes from Genesis, where the sort of founders of this movement... talk about how God gave man -- this is a very patriarchal movement -- dominion over the land. And dominionists believe that they have been tasked by God to create the Christian society through violence, I would add. Violence, the aesthetic of violence is a very powerful component within this movement. The ideology, when you parse it down and look what it's made up of, is essentially an ideology of exclusion and of hatred. It is a totalitarian ideology. It is not religious in any way. These people quote... selectively and with gross distortions from the Gospels... They draw from the Book of Revelations the only time in the Bible, and that's a very questionable book, as Biblical scholar! s have pointed out for centuries, the only time when you can argue that Jesus endorsed violence... [Their movement is] about taking control of secular society… they have built this dangerous alliance with the neoconservatives... [and have] united Messianic Jews in Israel with Messianic Christians in the United States. And this Messianic unity believes that they have been ordained through, I think, if you listen to their rhetoric, a high degree of racism to dominate the Middle East and, in particular, Muslims within the Middle East. The kind of language that they use against Muslims... I don't think could be used against any other racial group in this country.

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