Dominionist group promotes "how to take over America" list

A growing Christian Dominionist organization is now promoting a “To-Do” list for Christians who want to take over the United States government and do away with our secular Constitution.

American Vision is a Christian Dominionist group, founded on the teachings of Christian radical R.J. Rushdoony. Their “anti-American Vision“:

An America that recognizes the sovereignty of God over all of life, where Christians apply a Biblical worldview to every facet of society. This future America will be again a “city on a hill” drawing all nations to the Lord Jesus Christ and teaching them to subdue the earth for the advancement of His Kingdom.

That’s right, their goal is nothing less than a world-wide Christian theocracy. Leah Smith has created for them a To-Do list for Dominion to help the rank-and-file homemakers — yes, it’s geared toward women — do their part:

1. Get a biblical worldview. That is, buy materials from American Vision and other related sites to teach you how to view the world through the Biblical lens.
2. Get married and have a family. This is extra important to Smith, because, as she says, “Atheists can do this, too”. Smith continues, “Do we want a biblical society? Start by having a biblical family . . . Pop out some kids. Raise up godly, clear-thinking Christians who will take dominion as God commands.”

   That’s right. Pop out some kids. It doesn’t matter if you can afford to raise them; it doesn’t matter if you want them. It is irrelevant if you’re ready to be a parent. It’s your duty to God to “pop out some kids” (also known as Christian soldiers) and indoctrinate them into your religion. And not just a few:

3. Have children, and if possible, lots of them. Muslims, says Smith, are outstripping Christians with their average of 6 kids per household, and admonishes her readers to “get busy” reproducing. Women, turn on your baby ovens!
4. Bring up [your] children with a Christian, bible-based education. That’s right. Don’t base your kids’ education on centuries of learning and scientific experiment or accurate history; instead, look to a book written by semi-literate Iron Age nomads to figure out what to teach your children. You must, at all costs, protect them from what Smith calls “humanistic brain washing they receive five days a week.” No, you must home school!
5. Get educated in: Smith lists three areas she wants housewives to educate themselves. Science? Mathematics? Chemistry? No, of course not. Apologetics (the art of explaining how books written by Iron Age nomads apply today and are actually accurate, even if they seem self-contradictory and wholly ignorant of science), theology (because there are evil atheists who understand it better than most Christians, and you might lose faith when confronted), and evangelism (how to convince believers in other faiths and non-believers that your god is better than their god). Oh, and be sure to teach your children all that you learn
6. Know your feminine role. Yes, Smith wants women to “go back to being women, with joy and celebration”. That is, subject to men, not independent, and happily accepting of their role as property and as baby-ovens.

Is that the future you want? An anti-American Vision of Christian theocracy, where women are returned to the role of char-woman and baby-oven, and where people who don’t share the faith are still subject to religious laws?

What are you going to do about it?

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