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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (188693)12/5/2006 6:23:50 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793991
 
Christianism

In recent years, some authors have used the terms "Christianism" or "Christianist" in place of "Dominionism."

The term "Christianist" is referred to as early as 1992 in a book Europe. La voie romaine by Rémi Brague. In an essay from November, 2004 by Gianni Valente in the English version of the Italy based 30 Days in the Church and the world, Valente credits Professor Brague, Professor of Arabic philosophy at the Sorbonne with the terminology distinction.

"Christianist" was also used by Ruth Walker on May 20, 2005 Christian Science Monitor providing a separate term for political Christians in an article entitled "Onward, Christianist Soldiers".

According to Andrew Sullivan, "The term 'people of faith' has been co-opted almost entirely in our (political) discourse by those who see Christianity as compatible with only one political party, the Republicans, and believe that their religious doctrines should determine public policy for everyone. So let me suggest that we take back the word Christian while giving the religious right a new adjective: Christianist." [15] The word Christianism evolved in western media outlets, particularly liberal-oriented blogs, [16][17][18] as a counterpoint to the term "Islamist." As Andrew Sullivan said, "Christianism is an ideology, politics, an ism. The distinction between Christian and Christianist echoes the distinction we make between Muslim and Islamist. Muslims are those who follow Islam. Islamists are those who want to wield Islam as a political force and conflate state and mosque." [19]

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (188693)12/5/2006 6:34:52 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793991
 
So then a Christianist is someone who believes his religion should have cultural dominion over his country?

Not necessarily a country. Could be a smaller or larger territory. And the territory would have to include non-Christians with an expectation of and desire for their own religious identity or the notion would be irrelevant, IOW, there would have to be some other people to marginalize.


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