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Bob Gorman @BobGorman8791
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At the heart of the #nationalprayerbreakfast is the Dominionist Movement(britannica.com/topic/Teavange…)highly influenced by a little know Calvinist, RJ Rushdoony.
Professor Michael McVicar has written extensively about Rushdoony in his book, Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism indiebound.org/book/978146962….
William Volker Charities of Kansas City, MO effectively launched Rushdoony. An overview of his rise is referenced in McVicar’s essay, Aggressive Philanthropy: Progressivism, Conservatism, and the William Volker Charities Fund myweb.fsu.edu/mmcvicar/PDFs/….
McVicar overviews an extensive historical arc of the Fund’s philanthropy. While touching on Rushdoony’s ascendance, the overview also details the Fund’s early role in funding the modern economic neoliberal movement.
Volker’s nephew, Harold Luhnow funded many neoliberal economists, e.g. Hayek, Von Mises, Friedman et al. who attended the first meeting in Switzerland of the Mont Pèlerin Society britannica.com/topic/Mont-Pel….
Thatcher, Reagan, et al. embraced their neoliberalism (britannica.com/topic/neoliber…) leading us to our current decay from democracy to an autocratic theocracy.
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