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--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 24, 2008, 12:07:38 am ---Here's one I'd never seen or heard of until it started showing up on Bettermost:
Christianist
Hunh? ??? WTF? :P
--- End quote ---
Went and looked it up. Google is your friend. From Wikipedia:
Dominionism describes, in several distinct ways, a tendency among some conservative politically-active Christians, especially in the United States of America, to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action—aiming either at a nation governed by Christians, or a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law...
Some authors have used the terms "Christianism" or "Christianist" in place of "dominionism," a usage that began as early as 2003...By alluding to the term "Islamist," this usage is intended to evoke the spectre of theocracy and even terrorism (citing, for example, the notorious bomber Eric Rudolph). Journalist Ruth Walker discussed usage of the term to refer to political Christians in a 2005 Christian Science Monitor essay,and commentator Andrew Sullivan advocated "Christianist" as a label for the Christian Right in a 2006 column in Time.
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