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==The "Christer" controversy==

==The "Christer" controversy==

On 29-30 April 2005 a gathering was held at the publicly funded College University of New York (CUNY) <ref>[http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/religionlaw/2005-June/018692.html ''Public university sponsorship of conference on "Examining the Real Agenda of the Christian Right"'']</ref> of radical leftists to discuss the "real agenda of the Christian right" and to "develop stategies to defeat them".  One of the speakers, Katherine Yurica, told the conference the Republican Party had gained power through "Hitlerian tactics" and that evangelical leaders from Billy Graham to Jerry Falwell "had to have read Hitler’s Mein Kampf." <ref>*[http://www.ird-renew.org/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=fvKVLfMVIsG&b=494491&ct=928973 ''President Bush Called “Evil,” Evangelicals Equated With Nazis at NCC-Supported Conference''], John Lomperis, The Institute on Religion and Democracy. </ref>  Chip Berlet, a Notable Wikipedian and author of Wikipedia's "Dominionist" series, said Christians have an irrational "hodgepodge of sexual subversion and social chaos" that is "motivated by fundamentalist Christian doctrines like Triumphalism and Dominionism, which order Christians to take over the secular state." <ref>*[http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/06/the_new_blackli.html ''The New Blacklist: Corporate America Caves In to the Christers''], Doug Ireland, June 09, 2005.</ref>  During a panel discussion debating appropriate pejoritives to employ, such as ''Christers'' or ''Theocons'', Berlet suggested ''Religious Supremacist'' and ''Christian Supremacist''.

On 29-30 April 2005 a gathering was held at the publicly funded College University of New York (CUNY) <ref>[http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/religionlaw/2005-June/018692.html ''Public university sponsorship of conference on "Examining the Real Agenda of the Christian Right"'']</ref> of radical leftists to discuss the "real agenda of the Christian right" and to "develop stategies to defeat them".  One of the speakers, Katherine Yurica, told the conference the Republican Party had gained power through "Hitlerian tactics" and that evangelical leaders from Billy Graham to Jerry Falwell "had to have read Hitler’s Mein Kampf." <ref>[http://www.ird-renew.org/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=fvKVLfMVIsG&b=494491&ct=928973 ''President Bush Called “Evil,” Evangelicals Equated With Nazis at NCC-Supported Conference''], John Lomperis, The Institute on Religion and Democracy. </ref>  60s activist Chip Berlet said Christians are motivated by doctrines like "Dominionism, which order Christians to take over the secular state." Berlet lamented the fact [[People for the American Way]] had stopped monitoring Christian groups and noted his organization, Political Research Associates would love to do it but complained there wasn't enough money to be made. <ref>[http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/06/the_new_blackli.html ''The New Blacklist: Corporate America Caves In to the Christers''], Doug Ireland, June 09, 2005.</ref> Berlet has since become the primary author of the controversial Dominionism series in Wikipedia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Dominionism&direction=next&oldid=48506938] During a panel discussion <ref>[http://www.religiousrightwatch.com/2005/07/the_things_peop.html Religious Right Watch''] July 10, 2005.</ref> on appropriate pejoritives to use, such as ''Christer'' or ''Theocon'', Berlet also recommended terms such as ''Religious Supremacist'' and ''Christian Supremacist''. <ref>[http://www.publiceye.org/media/logic96.html ''Techniques of the Propagandist''], Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates, Cambridge Massachusetts.</ref>

Stanley Kurtz of the ''National Review'' reported on the conference. In Kurtz's words what was discussed was the Religious Rights desire to "suppress other religions through genocide and mass murder...reestablish slavery. ...reduce women to near-slavery by making them property, first of their fathers, and then of their husbands. ...execute anyone found guilty of pre-martial, extramaritial, or homosexual sex. ...to bring back the death penalty for witchcraft." <ref>*[http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200505020944.asp ''Dominionist Domination, The Left runs with a wild theory.''] Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online, May 02, 2005.</ref>  Christians soon reacted to the hate, bigotry, and distortions coming out of the conference <ref>*[http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/092627.php#092627 ''The "Christer" Controversy''], Rhymes With Right, June 16, 2005.</ref>

Stanley Kurtz of the ''National Review'' reported on the conference. Kurtz said the alleged desire of the Religious Right to "suppress other religions ...reestablish slavery. ...reduce women to near-slavery by making them property. ...execute anyone found guilty of pre-martial, extramaritial, or homosexual sex. ...to bring back the death penalty for witchcraft" was the subject matter of discussion. <ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200505020944.asp ''Dominionist Domination, The Left runs with a wild theory.''] Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online, May 02, 2005.</ref>  Christians soon reacted to the hate, <ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/dark_christian/362401.html Dark Christianity],

Exploring and Exposing Dominionist Christianity, 12 December 2005. </ref> bigotry, and distortions coming out of the conference. <ref>[http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/092627.php#092627 ''The "Christer" Controversy''], Rhymes With Right, June 16, 2005.</ref>  Kurtz has investigated the extreme rhetoric of alleged Dominionist watchdogs and discovered at a website calling itself religioustolerance.org the claim that Dominionists

 

Anthony Williams of ''FrontPage magazine.com'' also commented on the absurdities coming out of the conference. While noting the “threat” of religious fundamentalism among the gathering of extreme leftists was not in  beheadings, forced marriages, honor killings, or genital mutilation in the Islamic Middle East, in this ideological fever swamp the real threat to freedom and liberty, "it turns out, is Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the seditious propaganda of Tim LaHaye, author of the best-selling apocalyptic fiction series ''Left Behind''." <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17957 "Dominionist" Fantasies], Anthony Williams, 4 May 2005.</ref>

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