Lecture against Christian Dominionalists

*** WARNING: THIS GUY IS A 'LIBERAL', SO DON'T WATCH IF THAT 'OFFENDS' YOU ***

The Great Awakening in the U.S.A. brought us all sorts of wild theological ideas: hellfire and damnation preaching, 'personal' salvation, extreme Bible literalism, the Rapture... but by far the most dangerous was then and is now that curious blend of Christian extremism twisted to political ideology known as Dominion theology:



Chris Hedges explores the rise of the Christian right in America in a lecture 3 years ago at Boston College. He's a 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, son of a preacher, and student of theology schooled by many of those who similar times elsewhere.

I'm re-posting this, as the video I originally linked to apparently no longer exists. This is a much longer version that includes the clip on dominion theology.