Liberal Self-Contradiction
In a recent conference on "Dominionism" put on by The Open Center in New York City, panel expert Chip Berlet entitled his last session From Scopes to Reagan: The Political Crusade of the Christian Right. In this session Berlet described the "danger" inherent when social movements attach themselves to political parties. Simply stated, he's referring to the alleged marriage of dominion theology and the Republican party.
He brought this to a fine point by criticizing contemporary dominionism as a "social movement bent on taking over society."
He then briefly criticized his "progessive" (i.e., liberal) audience for being too reactionary to the encroachment of dominionism. He said it wasn't enough to simply "sneer" at the dominionists — they needed a counter strategy.
His solution? Simple. Do the same thing the dominionists are doing. He concluded by saying, "we need to create a social movement and take back our society."
I guess it's ok when they do it.
