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Saturday, 18 December 2004, 7:31 pm

DOMINIONIST DEMENTIA: WHAT'S JESUS GOT TO DO WITH IT?
By Carolyn Baker

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Dominionist teaching is ostensibly based almost entirely on a literal interpretation of the bible. To justify virtually every position, they argue that "the bible says.." I always enjoy encountering them face to face because when I hear "the bible says," I cheerfully reply,

"And which bible would that be?" By that I mean that throughout the history of the Christian church, endless writings in the Christian tradition were eliminated, for a plethora of reasons, from the final canon of what is now called holy scripture. The decisions regarding which writings to include or omit from the canon were largely based on politics and gender. Reading the so-called "spurious" or "heretical" writings eliminated from the canon is most revealing for the light they shed on beliefs which the church fathers and popes found intolerable and which did not fit neatly into the political ends of the ecclesiastical establishment.

Were Jesus with us today, he would be an enormous problem for the Dominionists, and we can be certain that he would be perceived by them not unlike a homeless street person or an antiwar protestor. Jesus and his followers would be marginalized, arrested, and imprisoned. Contrary to the Jesus contrived by the Dominionists, the historical Jesus did not perceive himself as a savior of anyone. Whereas today's fundamentalist Christian insists that one must accept Jesus as one's "personal savior," Jesus never taught this concept. Rather, he was a spiritual mystic and an activist on behalf of human rights and social justice. <more>

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