Dobson's World

There are fundis who don't think today's Christian Right is nearly radical enough: Casting Stones: An Army of radical Christian Reconstructionists is preparing a campaign to convert conservative fundamentalist churches by David Holthouse SPLC Intelligence Report Winter 2005.

The Christian Reconstructionists are even more exclusivist and militantly theocratic than the Pat Robertsons, James Dobsons and Jerry Falwells of the fundi spectrum. Holthouse reports:

[Mark] Rushdoony was the keynote preacher at a symposium held in September at the Chalcedon Presbyterian Church in Cumming, Ga., to observe the 40th anniversary of the Chalcedon Foundation, the ultra-fundamentalist Christian ministry founded in California by Rushdoony's late father, R.J. Rushdoony. ...

The Chalcedon Foundation has since become the fountainhead for Christian Reconstructionism, an obscure but growing branch of Christian fundamentalism whose adherents believe the world should be "reconstructed" so that everyone in it lives under strict Old Testament moral codes imposed by local theocracies.

There is no room for democracy in Reconstructionism, and no tolerance for dissent.

"To oppose us is to attack God's law," Mark Rushdoony testified to nearly 200 followers from four states, "and to attack God's law is to attack God himself!"

He also writes that Roy Moore, the Ten Commandments monument guy from Alabama, has been kissing up to the Reconstructionists.

The Chalcedon symposium was titled, "The Blueprint for Christian Civilization in the 21st Century." But instead of specifically outlining their strategy, the presenters simply pounded the drums of holy war by heralding the conquest of the wicked, variously identified as gays, secular humanists, abortionists, evolutionists and heretics.

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