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The New Dominionism Tries To Rule

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These men who made what is known as the “Watchmen Decree” are among the leaders of the A movement originally identified and named in the 1990s by evangelical theologian C. Peter Wagner. The NAR has since become the leading political and cultural vision of the Pentecostal and Charismatic wing of evangelical Christianity. Learn more (NAR), a new and powerful Christian A power orientation that functions to maintain the relative power of some of the population, generally organized around race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or wealth. Learn more movement that is attempting to transform culture and politics in the U.S. and countries across the world into a grim A form of top-down political system that concentrates state power in the hands of a single leader and/or group of close allies. Learn more . NAR adheres to The theocratic idea that Christians are called by God to exercise political and cultural dominion over society. Learn more , which Frederick Clarkson of Political Research Associates defines as “the theocratic idea that Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society by taking control of political and cultural institutions.” Dominionism has long been a driver of antigovernment extremism in the United States. NAR is the latest chapter, and possibly the most successful, in dominionists’ modern effort to make their reading of Christianity authoritative and supreme in everyone’s lives.”

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