What is Dominionism? - The Seven Mountains

This video gives a better description of Dominionism than I might be able to articulate.

The suggestion that the word "Dominionism" is not a legitimate one because it is used by bloggers, journalist and social scientist is rubbish. It quite accurately describes what those involved in this movement intend and hope to achieve. In this video, created by Dominionist themselves, the narrator says, "In every city of the world an unseen battle rages for dominion, for God's creation and the souls of people."  They are using the word themselves, and they don't make any secret about what they themselves mean by it.

Although dominionism is used in several distinct ways, most usage originates directly or indirectly from a specific passage in the King James Version of the Bible:
And God blessed [ Adam and Eve ] 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." —Genesis 1:28 (KJV) - Wikipedia

It is hard to gage the extent of the influence the Dominionists actually have in Washington. What is known with certainty is that Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann are politicians who have a direct connection to the Dominionist movement. Although it is clearly unlikely at this point that either of them will become the Republican nominee for president, it astounds me that they have gained as much influence as they have.


According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, there were about 40 faith-based lobby and advocacy groups in Washington in 1970. Today there are more than 200. These groups address domestic and international issues, among them the separation of church and state, abortion and marriage issues, and global poverty. They spend nearly 400 million dollars a year combined. AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, spends the most, followed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

The GOP has actively sought to use the grassroots organizational structures that religious organizations provide them.  They have publish voter guides that have been distrubted through religious organizations across the country.  And it isn't just the wacko religious fundamentalists that have participated.

Churches enjoy  their tax exempt status with the priviso that they do not actively advocate for any particular political cause. But the law is blatantly ignored.

Duane's Response to "Dominionism"

A Response to: The Culture of Dominionism

Pat, the term “dominionism” was not completely defined in your post. First of all I couldn’t find the word in either Webster’s or Random House. And when I went to Wikipedia I found this quote:

“The use and application of this terminology is controversial. Apart from a handful of social scientists who first coined it, the term is almost exclusively used by journalists and bloggers, and there’s a lively debate about whether the term is even useful at all.

That makes me feel the term doesn’t come from a legitimate source. Instead it seems it is an invention of faux academics trying to convince people there is a problem where little or no evidence supports it.

My question is how can “threads of dominionism run deep in the GOP” when the concept exists only in the imaginations of small-minded men? I’m not saying you are a small-minded man, of course, but maybe you read short books.

It is natural that people having deeply held convictions, whether they be religious or secular, are going to believe that “real” solutions are to be found within their own moral code. There is nothing wrong with that as long as we follow the constitution. I personally haven’t seen any evidence of a resurgence of the “Spanish Inquisition” or the equivalent of Sharia Law being imposed on the nation by anyone, not even the hated GOP.