A little background reading on the Xtian Reconstructionists

[hifiguy]

from one who knows them inside and out, Frank Schaffer

"The Reconstructionist worldview is ultra-Calvinist but, like all Calvinism has its origins in ancient Israel/Palestine, when vengeful and ignorant tribal lore was written down by frightened men (the nastier authors of the Bible) trying to defend their prerogatives to bully women, murder rival tribes, and steal land. (These justifications may have reflected later thinking: origin myths used as propaganda to justify political and military actions after the fact, such as the brutality the Hebrews said God made them inflict on others and/or their position as the Chosen People.)

In its modern American incarnation, which hardened into a 20th-century movement in the 1960s and became widespread in the 1970s, Reconstructionism was propagated by people like my father and others I knew and worked with closely when I, too, was both a Jesus Victim and a Jesus Predator claiming God’s special favor."

embhasis added

Link:

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/151960/michele_bachmann_was_inspired_by_my_dad_and_his_christian_reconstructionist_friends_--_here%27s_why_that%27s_terrifying/?page=entire

[kestrel91316]

1. Christian Reconstructionists are AKA Dominionists.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. And traitors

[demosincebirth]

3. What's xtian

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Kind of like Xmas

[demosincebirth]

5. Some kind of code?

[Occulus]

6. Two answers:

1) Xtian, to highlight the cross and Christianity's death fetish
2) Xtian, to differentiate from Christian, which Reconstructionists and Dominionists know nothing about

[patrice]

7. Some scarey stuff!

What Schaeffer is saying about "Christian" Reconstructionists amounts to:
- People and the world are fallen (Calvin);
- Christians have a duty to bring ALL of it under "Christ"
- Democracy is anti-thetical to that responsibility
- Therefore whatever the church decides to do, to bring anything under the rule of "Christ" is justified, no matter how much those affected may oppose it.

The message of Rushdoony’s work is best summed up in one of his innumerable Chalcedon Foundation position papers, “The Increase of His Government and Peace.” He writes, “The ultimate and absolute government of all things shall belong to Christ.” In his book Thy Kingdom Come—using words that are similar to those the leaders of al Qaida would use decades later in reference to “true Islam”—Rushdoony argues that democracy and Christianity are incompatible: “Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life,” he writes. “One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state.Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.”

There have been times when I thought it perhaps a little extreme to think that the invasion & occupation of Iraq, in addition to being motivated by Oil Royalty, was also motivated by radical Christians seeking to bring about the rule of God on Earth. I could accept the influence of oil, but not the idea that modern Christians would kill for Christianity. No more. And now I can also clearly see why they would oppose Medicare for All, which seemed kind of a puzzle to me since you'd think Christians would want to create universal care.

In their world-view, need would be fallen-ness and the only cure necessary is "Christianity".