LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY sunfell)

I just checked our stats for dark_christian, and we're at 795 subscribers! That's excellent! Also, I have noted that our subscription is good through August 2008, and for that, I would like to thank those who pitched in to help out.

Headlines like the one I just quoted in the last post remind us that we must keep up this examination. We must continue to learn about the overall Dominionist movement, its language, projects and jargon, and most important, we must do what we can do detoxify it wherever and whenever we find it.

Dominionist-contaminated Christianity is a fear-based faith. They fear women- especially strong and autonomous women. They fear gays. They fear any who do not have identical beliefs to theirs. They fear science. That fear often becomes hatred and paranoia.

The only way to break the fear is with knowledge. Dominionists fear knowledge more than anything, because that dilutes the absolutism that they constantly hammer into their believers. Knowledge is Satan to them. But knowledge can break down the walls, dispel the toxins, and renew the hope upon which Christianity is based.

It is vital that we understand this. Dominionists are prepared to take their 'enemy' -people like us- face-on, but are not prepared for the oblique attack, the soft approach. They are ready to face haters, but not people who actually care about their mental health and spiritual well-being. It is clear that there are some mental health issues to understand, if the stories of the 'walkaways' here are to be believed.

Water is a 'soft' thing, but it can bore holes through stone. Christians here must remember that under the hard shell of hatred and fear is a Christian core, and seek to find and redeem it. Dominionists need to be saved... from themselves.