sounds like the handmaid's tale. horrifying..
I'd never heard of them either. Frightening. Very.
Are these the same people as the Dominionists?
Zoinks. I feel sick to my stomach. I'd never heard of this either.
Just love that W is getting advice from some of them. :-( terrifying
My point has been that Bush's shilling for the Dominionists/ Reconstructionists is a better explanation for his seeming irrationality than the simpler suggestion the man's a moron. He's not a moron. He's just on a different, constitutionally very worrying track.
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That is some very scary stuff. No, I hadn't heard of them either. I think it's time we all learned a little more about them.
I had not heard of these folks. Nothing surprises me any more. I didn't used to get shook up about extremists like this, but when they're in the government as they are now, it's very scary. Take a look, for example, at Eric's post on "Is that Legal?" about Alito's membership in Princeton's extremist group CAP (http://www.webresume.com/cgi-local/maul/
maul_go.pl).
Wingnuts all over the place!
Sarah, yes, another name they go by is Dominionists, apparently because they believe God gave them dominion over everything, which raises the specter of the planet as their private s&m club.
SC, I don't know how your post on this got by me, but it did. Your theory of the motivation behind BushCo's actions makes a fair amount of sense to me. Not especially comforting sense.
I believe the phrase I'm looking for is "holy shit".
So now it's pretty clear how regular old Muslims felt about their crazy terrorist cousins.. I hope it's clear that this view is extreme even for the "Christian Right" right?
And the term "biblical worldview" is tossed around in pretty much every church I've been in, so don't put too much stock in that one.
Call them Dominionists or Christian Reconstructionists. . . a turd by any other name stinks the same. These people are evil and frightening.
Agreed. Nothing to add that has not been said...but sometimes it helps to commiserate. sigh.
Oh, I just heard of reconstructionism for the first time a few weeks ago -- and you're right, it is jaw-droppingly frightening. I have been researching the reconstructionists online for the past few weeks, although I haven't posted about them yet. Check out Vision Forum Ministries at http://www.visionforumministries...ome/
default.asp. There are som related links on my site under "Anti-feminist links." The Vision Forum crowd believes in "Biblical Patriarchy" -- which includes women staying home rather than going to college and being transferred from the authority of the father to the authority of the husband upon marriage. Courtship is strictly monitored and occurs only upon dad's approval. And, of course, voting for women is considered "irrelevant."
These folks have been around for decades. I've been aware of them for at least fifteen years, although they were a lot further out on the fringe back then. When Atwood wrote "A Handmaiden's Tale" she was cribbing Gilead from their literature, which is why it's so creepily plausible.
For bonus worry-points, consider that one of the biggest providers of electronic voting machines is a Reconstructionist.
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