Chris Hedges: On the Rise to Political Power of the Dominionists

(I'm watching this right now and Hedges, as always, is amazingly insightful and has a great sense of religious history. Then NOW interviews Roy Moore, who provides a good example of a Dominionist worldview.)

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On the rise to political power of the Dominionists, a fringe group of the Christian right, Chris Hedges says: "This movement is different. What it's calling on is for its followers to essentially take control of secular society and create a Christian, what they define as a Christian nation....What they would like to do is impose their...moral agenda on the rest of us." Hedges, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist for THE NEW YORK TIMES, has reported on the religious right, which he has called "a force working with our democracy to destroy it." He has published several books including the bestselling WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING, WHAT EVERY PERSON SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WAR, and his latest LOSING MOSES ON THE FREEWAY. He holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and is the recipient of the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Roy Moore sparked a national debate and eventually was removed for refusing to move a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the state Supreme Court building. "The first thing that our forefathers did when they wrote the First Amendment was to acknowledge God," he tells David Brancaccio. "It was all about God. So, when you say that God's not in the Constitution, it is because people don't understand what the Constitution is about." Justice Moore was the first full-time Deputy District Attorney in Etowah County, Alabama, serving in that position from 1977 to 1982. He served as Circuit Judge, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit and was elected as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama in November 2000.

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