Dominionism

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Dominionism is a political and religious philosophy that seeks to make the United States government a Christian theocracy. Most Dominionists try to avoid using this name, however, it is usually applied to any Christian movement with these explicit or implicit goals. In this case "Christian" usually means extreme fundamentalist Protestants.

They believe that all the Old Testament laws should be kept, and enforced by the U.S. legal system. This would entail a substantial increase in the use of capital punishment. Additionally they also believe that that biblical injunctions regarding slavery should be followed^[1] ^[2].

The "Republic of Gilead" in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale represented one scenario of a Dominionist takeover in the United States after an environmental disaster drastically reduced the reproductive capacity of the population.

Its ideologies are promoted by authors such as Gary North.

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[edit] Dominionist theology

See the main article about this subject, Millennialism.

Dominionism is often connected with the theological position known as postmillennialism, which envisions a period of one thousand years prior to the eventual Second coming of Christ during which the "Kingdom of God" will gradually gain ground against the forces that oppose it. For that reason, these "hard dominionists" usually work towards a general Christianization of society in the belief that this will help bring about the "Kingdom of God" and eventually the Second coming.

In this, they differ from the premillennialists, who believe that the Second coming itself will mark the beginning of the millenium, and thus tend to focus more on the conversion of individuals than of society as such.