{"id":10389,"date":"2011-09-03T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/03\/michele-bachmann-and-dominionism-paranoia\/"},"modified":"2011-09-03T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:10:39","slug":"michele-bachmann-and-dominionism-paranoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/03\/michele-bachmann-and-dominionism-paranoia\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Bachmann and Dominionism Paranoia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Doug Groothuis, <a href=\"http:\/\/theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">The Constructive Curmudgeon<\/a>, points us to his article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Michele-Bachmann-and-Dominionism-Paranoia-Douglas-Groothuis-08-26-2011.html\" target=\"_self\">Michele Bachmann and Dominionism Paranoia<\/a>.&#0160; Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is a buzz in the political beehive about the dark dangers of Bachmann&#39;s association with &quot;dominionism&quot;\u2014a fundamentalist movement heaven-bent on imposing a hellish theocracy on America. In the August 15 issue of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, Ryan Lizza asserts that Bachmann has been ideologically shaped by &quot;exotic&quot; thinkers of the dominionist stripe who pose a threat to our secular political institutions. The piece\u2014and much of the subsequent media reaction\u2014is a calamity of confusion, conflation, and obfuscation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Leftists are astonishingly bad at threat assessment.&#0160; To reverse the scriptural phrase, they&#0160;will&#0160;swallow&#0160; the imaginary gnat of &#39;theocracy&#39; while&#0160;straining at &#0160;the all-too-real camel of&#0160; Islamo-terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Groothuis, The Constructive Curmudgeon, points us to his article, Michele Bachmann and Dominionism Paranoia.&#0160; Excerpt: There is a buzz in the political beehive about the dark dangers of Bachmann&#39;s association with &quot;dominionism&quot;\u2014a fundamentalist movement heaven-bent on imposing a hellish theocracy on America. In the August 15 issue of The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza asserts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/03\/michele-bachmann-and-dominionism-paranoia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michele Bachmann and Dominionism Paranoia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}