STANLEY KURTZ, WHO GENERALLY writes on secular matters for National Review Online, has assembled a truly terrifying anthology of reports on the tyrannical malevolence of Dominionist Christians and how it may already be the binding ideology of the Bush Administration. Allegedly Kurtz assembled this material to belittle those who are concerned about the Dominionist threat, but for many readers – myself among them – his work will have precisely the opposite effect. Indeed it is the best primer/anthology of anti-Dominionist investigative reports I have seen anywhere.
Kurtz's piece and the links therein, to various exposes detailing the Dominionist conspiracy to overthrow American constitutional governance and impose Bible-based theocracy in its place – a theocracy complete with witch-burnings and stonings-to-death of homosexuals and "fornicators" – are available here.
Ignore the obligatory right-wing rhetoric that begins with Kurtz’s fifth paragraph and go directly to the links Kurtz has enclosed. As you read, you'll probably find yourself wondering – as I did – if Kurtz's real intent is not belittlement at all, but rather to alert NRO 's libertarian and/or secular-conservative readers to the grave internal threat America is now facing. I don't know the answer to that question. But having on several occasions experienced firsthand the Dominionist penchant for tyrannical viciousness – this not only during the parochial-school years of a Southern boyhood but repeatedly during my adulthood as well – I have no doubts whatsoever about the nature of the threat itself. Though please in fairness remember that by no means all Evangelicals and/or Fundamentalists are Dominionists.
(Please note: this is not the promised New Beginning. It is merely material of sufficient urgency I thought it should be posted promptly. Indeed, there may be no New Beginning at all; for reasons I will detail in the next few days, I am increasingly leaning toward shutting this site down forever. Meanwhile, read Kurts’s links and be informed: forewarned is forearmed.)