re: #140 Decatur Deb

I’m trying to read him with a very tight definition of the Reconstructionists. They are asort of subset of Dominionists, and pretty freaky even in that world. Personally, I’m convinced that any religion or ideology, given the power, will eventually mount an auto-da-fe. I know my teachers at the seminary would have.

We need a good taxonomy of the RW religious groups.

Ok, you seem to know about the specifics, and my knowledge of that very specific group is certainly limited - but this bit from Wiki is consistent with my general impression:

Although relatively insignificant in terms of the number of self-described adherents, Christian Reconstructionism has played a role in promoting the trend toward explicitly Christian politics in the larger U.S. Christian Right.[10] This is the wider trend to which some critics refer, generally, as Dominionism. They also allegedly have influence disproportionate to their numbers among the advocates of the growth of the Christian homeschooling and other Christian education movements that seek independence from the direct oversight or support of the civil government. Because their numbers are so small compared to their influence, they are sometimes accused of being secretive and conspiratorial