“9/17/2009, 12:43pm EST”
Above is the next face of Christian dominionism — “energetic, hip, creative, flexible, enterprising, and media- and culture-savvy,” as DailyKos diarist Troutfishing notes, and therefore a more sophisticated influencer of the unreasoning masses. The man at the podium is Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, and his insanity is much more subtle due to a facade of youth and modernism. Again, in the words of Troutfishing:
In the future, the Christian supremacist push for theocratic government will be increasingly multi-ethnic. While the American political left and mainstream media focus on racism-tinged teabagger events, organizers such as Samuel Rodriguez are building the post-racist American right.
And this “post-racist American right” is no less strategic than the racist American right in its bid to broadly impose a false ontological and moral worldview. Consider Mr. Rodriguez’s words:
We will mobilize in prayer, in righteousness, in justice, and in vertical and horizontal activism. We will mobilize and train media spokespersons… We will engage multiple platforms for engagement including digital media and mass communication. We will educate Christians on current events both in the Kingdom and in the political sphere. We will place ethnic faces in front of the media to confront cultural wedge issues… We will mobilize a youth network that will lead as the prophetic champions of biblical justice and stewardship.
Rodriguez and his followers are anti-gay rights; anti-choice; and, plain as day, anti-secular. Yes, he has some morally better ideas than the Evangelical we know (and laugh at) — for example, he seems to have some concern for the environment, he seems not to be knee-jerk Capitalist, and he is obviously post-racial.
This is sheer luck. Ontologically, he is as utterly wrong as your run-of-the-mill evangelical Christian; epistemically, he is as utterly arrogant. And the source of his truth-challenged worldview is the same — deep psychological problems expressed through rote faith in an imagined god.
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