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   Friday, May 12, 2006

   RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

You know that feeling you get when you read something so crazy it borders on science fiction? I get that feeling from George Grant's now mercifully-out-of-print yet still influential book, "The Changing of the Guard: Biblical Principles for Political Action." This passage from page 81 in particular gives me night sweats:

Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ – to have dominion in the civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness.
But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice.
It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.
It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.
It is dominion we are after.
World conquest. That’s what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less.

Honestly, don't these guys know what they sound like???

What's particularly frustrating is that men like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson will take all the same ideas, tone down the crazy (somewhat) and pass them along to FOX News as mainstream conservative thinking.

A gay conservative Christian named Bruce Bawer wrote a book around the same time, a decade ago, called "A Place at the Table." Bawer made a strong case to these people for gay equal rights but how successful could he be? They don't want him sitting at the table. They want the whole table, the dining room, the entire house. It's dominion they are after.

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