DeMint Uses Christian Reconstructionist Mailing List To Raise Money For Angle

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/editorial/2808/demint_uses_christian_reconstructionist_mailing_list_to_raise_money_for_angle

American Vision is a Christian Reconstructionist organization that publishes books and newsletters, runs a discussion board, a web-based radio show, and annual conferences and engages in other activities to promote the dominionist views of its founder Gary DeMar, as well as those of one of its most well-known associates, Gary North, the son-in-law of Christian Reconstructionist founder R.J. Rushdoony, and a supporter of Ron Paul whose economic writings have also influenced Rand Paul.

The goal is to return America to its Biblical foundations “from Genesis to Revelation” (a postmillennial reading of Revelation, which holds that the Second Coming will occur after an era of Christian dominance). American Vision is a non-profit, tax exempt, educational organization. Like many of these groups, DeMar also has a companion organization that can raise money and promote candidates for elected office: Vision to America.

Yesterday, Vision to America sent a fundraising appeal in support of Nevada’s Republican nominee to the U.S. Senate, Sharron Angle, from South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint’s political action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund.

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I have put together a plan to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Nevada Senate race — along with several others like it — to achieve conservative victory. This plan includes running statewide television and radio ads, sending direct mail to targeted voters, and operating phone banks — all geared toward defeating Harry Reid in November.

DeMint apparently does not think the Reconstructionists are an irrelevant fringe movement, as many others seem to think, since he’s paid money to email them and apparently expects that it will be worthwhile.

More info on Christian REconstructionism @ Theocracy Watch:

http://www.theocracywatch.org/relig_inst.htm#Reconstruction

From: The Covert Kingdom -- Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Texas, Joe Bageant www.dissidentvoice.org May 18, 2004:

Christian Reconstructionism has for decades exerted one hell of an influence through its scores of books, publications and classes taught in colleges and universities. Over the past 30 years, Reconstructionist doctrine has permeated not only the religious right, but mainstream churches as well, via the charismatic movement. Its impact on politics and religion in this nation have been massive, with many mainstream churches pushed rightward by pervasive Reconstructionism, without even knowing it.

The implementation of Biblical Law is central to the mission of building the Kindom of God on earth. The way to get to Biblical Law is through politics. Therefore, God's law as manifested in the Bible should govern. References to the Ten Commandments are more than symbolic. It reflects a belief that the Bible, not the Constitution, represents the final legal authority.

Reconstructionist theologian David Chilton described the goals:

Our goal is world dominion under Christ's lordship, a world "take over" if you will. (Paradise Restored, p. 214)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reconstructionism

State of Belief Radio: The Roots of Christian Reconstructionism
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/sarahposner/2810/state_of_belief_radio%3A_the_roots_of_christian_reconstructionism

In an interview with the Rev. Welton Gaddy on State of Belief, Ingersoll explains how Christian Reconstructionist thought, particularly the seminal writing of R.J. Rushdoony, is at the root of the dominionism that animates the contemporary religious right. And one can even see the influence of Reconstructionism on politicians like Ron and Rand Paul, who would not self-identify as Reconstructionists, and who are not even traditionally closely allied with the religious right.