Modern "Christian America" is partly a Corporate Creation (VIDEO)

The Christian Impact on American Politics was at least partly created by, and largely serves, Conservative/GOP politics. How was this connection established? (video link):

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (w/ Kevin Kruse) 

"Princeton Professor and author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, explains how Christian America is rooted in the corporate reaction against the New Deal. How corporations hired ministers to help destroy the New Deal. What is Christian libertarianism? How “The Family” was founded and was rooted in the corporations war against labor. Why Dwight Eisenhower accepted and even expanded the New Deal while embracing the language of the religious right. The National Prayer Breakfast and “God’s law” coming before America’s laws. How Ronald Reagan completed the counter revolution and why the movement is alive and well in the modern Republican Party…."

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Prosperity Gospel Is War on the Poor

"Many of the poor are more willing to place their faith in the lottery or prosperity gospel than in the tarnished legend of the American Dream"

Link:

 Kareem Abdul Jabbar Slams Prosperity Gospel

     "Without faith in the government to help lift the poor out of poverty or prevent the middle class from slipping away, desperate and frightened people seek help in the supernatural of religion or in the supernatural odds of the lottery (odds of winning on a single ticket are 1 in 175 million). It’s hard not to be sympathetic.
       Americans have always had difficulty reconciling the lofty pursuit of spiritual enlightenment with the worldly hunger for material prosperity, especially if the former rejects the latter. We want to win, even if winning means we lose something even more valuable not tangible because our fame-mongering, social-media-driven culture tells us we haven’t won unless everyone else acknowledges it. (If someone does a good deed in the forest and no one’s around, is it still a good deed? Not anymore.) But how does one keep score in the spirituality game? According to the purveyors of prosperity gospel, your friends and neighbors will know how righteous you are by the size of your bank account and the make of your car.
       In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, he says, “And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also” (Matthew 5:40). The coat was considered to be a shirt while the cloak was a crucial garment to protect against the elements. Combined with Jesus’ admonishment to turn the other cheek when struck, we see a teaching that is establishing the basis for Christianity: Tend to what is permanent (the soul) over what is temporary (material goods). To expect an earthly reward other than purity of mind would go against these teachings. Yet those pimping the prosperity gospel are preaching the opposite."

Kareem Abdul Jabbar ---- A man as honest and insightful in life as he was athletically-gifted in his spectacular career.

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Are Dominionists Pushing America Toward Their Vision Of Apocalypse?

Apocalyptic Millennialism----A Dominionist Obsession Of The Religious Right

1st -- Think About:  Officials involved with Corporations, Federal officials working with such varied issues of national concern as America's pending Iran Treaty (as of April, 2015), Israel Policy, Russia policy, Nuclear Weapons, Military Command, Global Climate  Change, Fossil-Fuel Policy, and Pollution Laws. Locally, inspectors, law enforcement and other city and state government officials, and others,  key to the operation of our society.

Then -- Consider:  Are Dominionists, as a percentage of the population, culturally embedded within both Government and the private sector, and scattered through varying areas of The Military, State Department, EPA and numerous other important regulatory agencies, and even the court system, letting their "Biblically-foreseen" End-Of-The-World beliefs influence their performance as business employees or designated Public Servants? 

 

Article Excerpt:                                                                                               "Apocalypticism: The belief in an approaching confrontation, cataclysmic event, or transformation of epochal proportion, about which a select few have forewarning so they can make appropriate preparations. From a Greek root word suggesting unveiling hidden information or revealing secret knowledge about unfolding human events. The dualist or demonized version involves a final show-down struggle between absolute good and absolute evil. In Christianity there are competing apocalyptic prophetic traditions based on demonization or liberation. Central to Christianity, the tradition also exists in Judaism, Islam, and other religions and secular belief structures. Believers can be passive or active in anticipation; and optimistic or pessimistic about the outcome. Sometimes used similarly to the term millenarianism.

 Millennialism: A sense of expectation that a significant epochal transformation is imminent, marking either the end of a thousand year period, or signal its beginning, or both. Two major forms of millennialist response are passive waiting versus activist intervention. Can involve varying degres of apocalypticism. In Christianity, the idea that the Second Coming of Christ marks a thousand year period."

Link:
Pushing Towards The Apocalypse? 

Link:
41% of American Adults Believe World Now in the “End Times”, according to poll 

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For some,  Apocalypse = Money...
 

Milking  Apocalyptic Fear$, for profit
Conservative talk show host  Glenn Beck announced on his radio show in June, 2013 that "we are living in Biblical times" and added "we are at the end".

                                                 Exploiter of fear, Glenn Beck

 Meanwhile, Beck has, for years on his show, Hawked gold investments as a hedge for average people in coming desperate times.

 

Condemning America's ‘Moral Decay’ Is An Old Game 

Link:

An Old Game 

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Dominionists Re-Write American History To Serve Their Theocratic Agenda

Dominionists  and Christian Revisionists

  Alter  and  Falsify 

US  History

 
====Dominionists have a desperate desire to re-write US History in a highly Christianized new image====


Excerpt:
"A running refrain in the revisionist narrative is that somehow the original intention of God and the Founding Fathers has been thwarted by some combination of liberals, judicial tyrants, the ACLU, secular humanists, and more. This notion, which seems silly to some, is tremendously powerful in the context of the conservative Christian subculture. It asserts that "the Christians," (however one may define Christians), are the intended rulers of the nation, because that's what God, the Founding Fathers, and by implication, the Constitution, sought to accomplish.
It is a powerful piece of political and religious mythology that feeds into another powerful myth - that Christians are persecuted in the United States by the very forces that have thwarted God's plan for America. The effect is to make people feel that something has been unjustly, unrighteously taken from them - and that that something must be "restored" or "reclaimed." The Christian Right's Jamestown event [April, 2007, see below link marked ****] captured this sentiment." 
 
LINK: 
History Is Powerful ---- Why the Christian Right Distorts History and Why it Matters

****Link:
The Assemby 2007---Jamestown propaganda event put on by Religious Right
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Dominionism Seeks To Undermine America's Freedoms in the Name of Religion

Christian Right Dominionist Movement Trying To Undermine America's Free, Representative System
(link to article, below)

Excerpt:
"Dominionists want to impose a form of Christian nationalism on the United States, a concept that was dismissed as eroding freedom and democracy by the founders of our country. Dominionism has become a major influence on the right-wing populist Tea Parties as Christian Right activists have flooded into the movement at the grassroots." 

Excerpt:

• "Dominionists celebrate Christian nationalism, in that they believe the United States once was, and should again be, a Christian nation. In this way, they deny the Enlightenment roots of American democracy.
• Dominionists promote religious supremacy, insofar as they generally do not respect the equality of other religions, or even other versions of Christianity.
• Dominionists endorse theocratic visions, believing that the Ten Commandments, or "biblical law," should be the foundation of American law, and that the U.S. Constitution should be seen as a vehicle for implementing Biblical principle."

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LINK:
The Christian Right and Theocracy 

Ironically,  It is one of the supposed Icons of the American Right who unequivocally assures us Theocracy is not The American Way...

         Ironic food for thought, eh?



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Dominionism and Prosperity Gospel REFUTED

 A Theological Refutation of Dominionism and The Prosperity Gospel

"...untold numbers of people flock to false teachers like Vallotton and false churches like Bethel Redding. They make professions of faith in Jesus, based on an anathematized gospel that rejects the true Jesus. They see Jesus as little more than a conduit for reaching what they really want--false promises of health, wealth, prosperity, authority, and power..."
Link, with accompanying PodCast: 

The so-called "Prosperity Gospel" Is FALSE 

Link:
List of  US Pastors  That Use or Own Private Jets & Mansions,  plus comments and discussion 

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"These preachers of the prosperity gospel are certainly perverting the true gospel of Christ Jesus."

"These false prosperity gospel preachers have replaced the true God of Heaven, with money and possessions. Their god is wealth (mammon). What does the Word of God say about this?"

"'No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.' (Matthew 6:24)

Link:
The Falseness of The Prosperity Gospel, EXPOSED and Analyzed

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A preacher defends his fundraising for a 
private jet...

       Is this really what God had in Mind?

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Fired for "not being Christian enough"?

Two fired preschool teachers in Thousand Oaks, California: Not Christian enough?

(LA Times/April, 2015/Report & Opinion by Robin Abcarian )

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  "There are many places in the world where Christians are oppressed. The United States of America is not one of them."

----Two teachers at Little Oaks School refused to provide a      "pastoral reference," and they were fired.                                     

----A judge ruled Little Oaks School was within its rights to fire  Lynda Serrano and Mary Ellen Guevara.

----Before the teachers could even file a wrongful-termination lawsuit, the school sued them in federal court.

 "There was nothing in their employment record to suggest that veteran preschool teachers Lynda Serrano and Mary Ellen Guevara deserved to be fired in 2012 by Little Oaks School.The two were described in court records as "capable" and "competent," with "no discipline history."
In 2009, Little Oaks was bought by Calvary Chapel, a Thousand Oaks church led by the Rev. Rob McCoy, a conservative Christian with political aspirations."

Continued here (link): 

Teachers Fired In California -- For Not Being Christian Enough?

 

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