fwd: (peacemakers) Dominionism and Bush

Psalm 146  ⁹The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

 

from: Mary- "eyer3" Elendil59@hotmail.com

It's important to understand that the founders of Dominionism are
sitting on the horns of a moral dilemma: How can a leader be both
good & evil at the same time? For if biblical moral proscriptions are
applicable to him, he will certainly suffer some form of censure. And
if proscriptions are applicable, the leader cld not lie to the
citizenry with impunity or do evil so that "good" cld be achieved.
The answer to the dilemma of how a Dominionist leader cld both do
evil & still maintain his place of honor in the Christian community
lies in the acceptance & adoption of the Calvinistic doctrine that
James Hogg wrote about in The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a
Justified Sinner. (WW Norton, NY 1970.)

This novel, published in 1824, is concerned with psychological
aberration & as such, anticipates the literature of the 20th C. The
protagonist is a young man named Robert, who drenched in the
religious bigotry of Calvinism, concluded that he was predestined
before the beginning of the world to enter heaven, therefore no sin
he committed wld be held to his acct. This freed Robert to become an
assassin in the cause of Christ & His Church.

50 yrs ago a variation on the concept was expressed disapprovingly
as, "Once saved-always saved." In this view, salvation had nothing to
do with "good works or a holy life." A drunk who had a born again
experience wld be among God's chosen elect whether he stopped
drinking or not. But the logical extension of the reasoning is the
idea that Christianity cld have within itself not ex-sinners but
active sinners: as Christian murderers, Christian pedophiles,
Christian rapists, Christian thieves, Christian arsonists, & every
other kind of socio-pathological behavior possible. As we have sadly
witnessed of late the concept is broadly accepted within the American
churches.

But the Dominionists needed the aberrant extension of Calvinism; they
believe as did Calvin & John Knox that before the creation of the
universe, all men were indeed predestined to be either among God's
elect or were unregenerate outcasts. And it is at this point
Dominionists introduced a perversion to Calvinism--the same one James
Hogg utilizes in his The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified
Sinner--its technical name is "supralapsarianism." It means
essentially that the man called from before the foundation of the
world to be one of the elect of God's people, can do no wrong. No
wonder then observers noted a definite religious swing in gw bush
from Wesleyan theology to Calvinism early in his [regime].[25]

How comforting the Calvinistic idea of a "justified sinner" is when
one is utilizing Machiavellian techniques to gain political control
of a state. It's more than comforting; it is a required doctrine
for "Christians" who believe they must use evil to bring about good.
It justifies lying, murder, fraud & all other criminal acts w/o the
fuss of having to deal with guilt feelings or to feel remorse for the
lives lost thru executions, military actions, or assassinations. ...