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Started by animelive [1564720] on in Politics & Law.

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animelive [1564720]
Die like the rest? Waiting for the $200,000 bomb you use on me. That's more than most people are willing to invest on me, how flattering
UwU [2081212]
Too easy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology

Kingdom Now theology



Kingdom Now theology is a branch of Dominion Theology which has had a following within Pentecostalism. It attracted attention in the late 1980s.[24][25]

Kingdom Now theology states that although Satan has been in control of the world since the Fall, God is looking for people who will help him take back dominion. Those who yield themselves to the authority of God's apostles and prophets will take control of the kingdoms of this world, being defined as all social institutions, the "kingdom" of education, the "kingdom" of science, the "kingdom" of the arts, etc.[26]

C. Peter Wagner, the founder of the New Apostolic Reformation, writes: "The practical theology that best builds a foundation under social transformation is dominion theology, sometimes called 'Kingdom Now'. Its history can be traced back through R. J. Rushdoony and Abraham Kuyper to John Calvin."[27]

Kingdom Now theology is influenced by the Latter Rain movement,[28] and critics have connected it to the New Apostolic Reformation,[29] "Spiritual Warfare Christianity,"[28] and Fivefold ministry thinking.[30]

Kingdom Now theology should not be confused with Kingdom theology, which is related to inaugurated eschatology.

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I'd read the entire wiki article and also it's got solid references as it has a heavy overlap with alt-right radical groups and so on.
Kamical [2046182]
You're assuming your importance and worth to be vastly greater than what it is, if you increase your value then one day you may be in the same sights that Baghdadi or Soleimani happened to be.
animelive [1564720]
Cool, don't derail my thread anymore please. Despite your psychopathic tendency, I wish you and your family good luck in your deployment.
BlnkSugarSocket [2018522]
Hardly. That is not a mainstream concept in Christianity. Even your citation of it admits that it started in the 1980's. That is a trend, not a school of religious thought.

It does exist, but has even less of a following than the Mormons, who also borrowed Islamic concepts, specifically allowing their men to marry multiple wives.
UwU [2081212]
Clearly you didn't click the link. I don't know what I expected really. Most people in P&L seem incapable of doing this.

Dominionism in reformed Christianity has had a significant following since around since 1960 and has swelled since then. Dominion theology isn't new as it was prominent in Europe back in the 16th to 18th century.

It fell out of favour during the reformation, and re-surged after the second world war.

As for number of adherents, there's a surprising number of people who subscribe to this and many are the type who go unregistered in America and avoid any interaction with the government so actual numbers are difficult to estimate accurately.

Thankfully, like you said, that number is still rather small and not mainstream. If it was it'd be fundamentalist American terrorists we'd have to be concerned about too.
BlnkSugarSocket [2018522]
Oh, I read it.

Etymology[edit]


Dominion theology is a reference to the King James Bible's rendering of Genesis 1:28, the passage in which God grants humanity "dominion" over the Earth.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
In the late 1980s, several prominent evangelical authors[1][2][3][4] used the phrase dominion theology (and other terms such as dominionism) to label a loose grouping of theological movements that made direct appeals to this passage in Genesis.[5] Christians typically interpret this passage as meaning that God gave mankind responsibility over the Earth, but one of the distinctive aspects of Dominion Theology is that it is interpreted as a mandate for Christian stewardship in civil affairs, no less than in other human matters.[6]
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Etymology means the history of the term, and its usage was not demonstrable prior to the 1980's, even to the author of the article.
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Still, the last sentence of the first paragraph gives the real key to it all:

The label is applied primarily toward groups of Christians in the United States.

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Smoke and mirrors.
UwU [2081212]
In modern times Christians that subscribe to the dominion theology are yes mostly in the United States.

Thats pretty clear and I know this as well. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here though.

You asked for a comparable Christian theological dogma that called for religious conquest and I gave you the example.
BlnkSugarSocket [2018522]
You gave me an example of a fad transformed into identity politics, not a comparable religious doctrine. Apples and Oranges.

Please don't make me cite the Hadith. That is a bit of a chore.
2049144 [2049144]
Right wingers are always motivated to die in a war the rich people set up. While they rest back in their jacuzzi, Kamical here can go in the frontline and die.

Wait who am I kidding, does this nerd even have the balls to do that? Probably stay at home sitting on his ass while he cheers on dead carcasses for his white leaders war.
Viracocha [1772040]
brown people?
random?

oh f**k off.

and if push comes to shove, I'll go back in the service of my country and the Western world.
Collete [1389080]
How much money in handouts will your country take from the west this year ?

You know from white people :P
Sannemander [2088627]
He probably watch the invasion on Fox. Cheerleading the murdering of people while eating chips.
This also happened in the golf war. They presented it like a video game.