На выборах 2016 доминионисты вначале ставили на Теда Круза. К ним явным образом относился отец Круза, проповедник Рафаэль Круз, и превдоисторик Дэвид Бэртон, который руководил SuperPAC "Keep the Promise" с рекордными пожертвованиями для избрания Круза.
When Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for president, many assumed he would quietly distance himself from his father, Rafael Cruz, since the elder Cruz has long been extreme in his religious views, and outspoken in proclaiming them. But the opposite has been the case. Rafael Cruz has been the senator’s primary surrogate on the campaign trail, particularly with the evangelical voters who are now Ted Cruz’s base. The two have frequently spoken together, prayed together, campaigned together-even shot highly awkward “slice of life” videos together. The reason Ted Cruz might be reluctant to embrace his father so publicly is that Rafael Cruz subscribes to what is known as dominionism, which holds that Christianity should exercise “dominion” over all of society, not just the traditional boundaries of religion. <...> The etymological and Scriptural roots of dominionism are God’s command that Adam and Eve should “have dominion over all the earth” and Isaiah 2:2, which says, “Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains.” Those “mountains” are interpreted not literally but figuratively (evangelicals are actually only selectively literalistic) as referring to the “seven mountains” of society, specifically family, religion, arts and entertainment, media, government, education, and business. And since an overwhelming majority of evangelicals-more than 75 percent, according to recent surveys-believe that the “latter days” are already here, the time for dominion is now. Hence the recent flood of Christian movies like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Christian businesses like Hobby Lobby, and Christian politicians like Pat Robertson. Rafael Cruz’s new book, A Time for Action: Empowering the Faithful to Reclaim America, makes this theology quite clear. In it, he writes, “The Bible tells us that we are the salt of the earth and light of the world… Doesn’t that suggest that our influence should touch every area of society-our families, the media, sports, arts and entertainment, education, business, and government?” Notice that not only did Cruz state the dominionist view in general, but he listed the specific “seven mountains” in which dominionists believe. <...> Rafael Cruz’s worldview is deeply informed by (and sometimes copied word-for-word from) the pseudo-history of David Barton, who now directs Ted Cruz’s SuperPAC, which has raised over $30 million from just four extremely wealthy individuals, and who was previously the chair of the Republican Party of Texas. Before spending billions to elect Ted Cruz, Barton wrote a series of books on the founders of the United States, all roundly condemned by actual historians. For example, his book on Thomas Jefferson, a noted deist who was suspected of atheism in his lifetime, suggests that Jefferson was in fact a pious, evangelical-style Christian. That book was voted “the least credible history book in print” by the History News Network website, and was pulled by its publisher, but is now available from World Net Daily, the far-right conspiracy website. <...> It’s easy to see how Barton’s bogus, revisionist history connects with Rafael Cruz’s dominionism. First, Barton is himself a dominionist: he said in 2011 that “If you can have those seven areas, you can shape and control whatever takes place in nations, continents and even the world.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/does-ted-cruz-think-hes-the-messiah
В руководство "Keep the Promise" также наняли Келлиэнн Коннуэй, которая позже вместе со Стивом Бэнноном руководила избирательной кампанией Трампа, а ныне работает его советником.
Neugebauer's goal from the beginning, in his telling, was to "expand the brand" of Cruz, a conservative crusader who had made more enemies than friends during his short time in the Senate. "Make him more likable to a larger audience of people" was how Neugebauer would later put it. Neugebauer ultimately secured commitments from New York hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, who gave $11 million to start Keep the Promise I, and the West Texas fracking billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks, whose families contributed $15 million to found Keep the Promise III. Neugebauer's $10 million went into Keep the Promise II. Those sums instantly cemented Mercer, Neugebauer and the Wilkses as the top donors to super PACs of the 2016 election cycle. Cruz embraced the cash infusion, boasting of his allied super PACs' war chests - combined with his campaign's own reserves - in some of the earliest versions of his stump speech. Neugebauer told the donors to spend at their own pace, and they had discretion to put together their own teams. Mercer's daughter Rebekah would go on to serve as an emissary for his Keep the Promise I, while Jon Francis, a member of the Wilks family, would play a similar role in Keep the Promise III. The first major hire the Keep the Promise groups made was Kellyanne Conway, a veteran conservative pollster who had previously worked on Newt Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign. Conway was named president of Keep the Promise I, and she was joined there by Matthew Taylor, an ad maker for Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. <...> David Barton, an influential evangelical activist and author, was brought in to lead Keep the Promise PAC, which at the time was viewed as the main vehicle overseeing the three other groups. What Barton discovered, according to some accounts, was an unorthodox organization struggling with communication - and perhaps more distressingly in the world of political finance - trust. Barton and others were impressed with Neugebauer’s savvy in laying the $38 million foundation and slingshotting Cruz to the front of the money race, but the follow-through was becoming a different story. “The shock and awe was there,” Barton said. “But then you have to turn that into the ground game, the ads and the digital, and it all costs money.” To help, Barton recruited Chris Britton, an Austin lobbyist with long experience in Texas politics - including a stint as deputy chief of staff to former Gov. Rick Perry. Representatives of the groups began holding conference calls more regularly, going over the news of the day, gaming out strategy and, as the race heated up, hearing reports from staff in different states. In Iowa, Conway made one of her first hires in Jeff King, the son of and political adviser to U.S. Rep. Steve King of the Hawkeye State. https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/17/cruz-super-pac-story/
Братья Уилкс ныне спонсируют пропагандистский проект "Prager University".
The Wilks Brothers, along with political commentator Ben Shapiro helped launch and fund The Daily Wire, a conservative news and opinion website in 2015. Additionally, the Wilks Brothers are responsible for much of the funding of PragerU, a conservative YouTube channel and media company started by Dennis Prager to further conservative causes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_and_Farris_Wilks
Их собственные религиозные наклонности замысловаты.
In addition to his business ventures, Farris, the older brother, is also a pastor at the church founded by his father, The Assembly of Yahweh (7th Day). The church’s doctrine seems to be an amalgam based on the elder Wilks’ anachronistic interpretations of the Bible. It combines biblical literalism with a heavy emphasis on the Old Testament: The church celebrates its Sabbath on Saturday, follows the dietary rules laid down in Leviticus, and celebrates Jewish holidays but not “the religious holidays of the Gentiles,” which include “Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, White Sunday, Good Friday, and Halloween.” (I had to look up White Sunday, which is a traditional Samoan holiday. There’s a significant Samoan community in Texas). Women may not speak during worship. <...> He said “there are only two basic ideas in the whole world” - and those are free enterprise and socialism. The U.S., he warned, is “inching closer to socialism.” You either have more government or more freedom; the more money taken from you in taxes, the fewer choices you have in life. He acknowledged that he has a “personal stake” in this, saying he pays a “huge amount” in taxes. He urged congregants not to vote for politicians who promise “free this, free that,” saying that would lead us to become one of the poor nations of the world. “Yahweh never intended for us as a people to be afraid and reliant on government.” https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-wilks-brothers-fracking-sugar-daddies-for-the-far-right/
Братья-миллиардеры из Техаса также спонсируют влиятельных доминионистов из Калифорнии.
Rob McCoy is pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel church and, as of Tuesday, mayor of Thousand Oaks, California. In September, over some neighborhood opposition, his congregation moved into a former YMCA facility that was bought and renovated by the foundation of Dan Wilks, a Texas fracking billionaire who supports Religious Right and Christian nationalist causes. According to the Citizens Journal, Wilks was on hand to celebrate the move. <...> This is not the first time McCoy has benefited from the largesse of the Wilks family. When McCoy made his first run for public office, for state legislature in 2014, Dan Wilks, his brother Farris and their wives gave thousands of dollars to McCoy’s campaign. (After losing his bid for the legislature, McCoy ran for and won a seat on the Thousand Oaks City Council.) Why are these Texans so interested in a local politician in California? The connection is Christian nationalist David Lane. For more than two decades, Lane has been organizing gatherings that bring together conservative pastors and politicians with the hope of getting pastors to preach more aggressively about politics and to get their congregants to vote. Lane says it was McCoy, his pastor, that inspired his more recent effort to recruit a thousand evangelical pastors to run for public office. Part of Lane’s theory is that is pastor-candidates can each mobilize hundreds of congregants as volunteers, and the resulting impact could be felt on campaigns up and down the ticket. The Wilks brothers, who were interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network at one of Lane’s events in Iowa in 2013, have funneled lots of money to Lane’s American Renewal Project (and other Religious Right causes) through the foundations they set up after selling their fracking services company for billions of dollars: Dan and his wife Staci have Heavenly Father’s Foundation, while Farris and his wife have the Thirteen Foundation. https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/texas-fracking-billionaires-foundation-buys-church-for-christian-nationalist-pastor-in-california/
In his conversation with Kirk, McCoy used seven mountains language, saying that God had raised up Trump, a man who had “currency” in the “mountains” of cultural influence-entertainment, media, politics, and business. “If you don’t like him, fine,” McCoy said. “But you know why God picked him? Because there were no Christians available.” There were other Christian candidates, of course, but none were “equipped” like Trump. https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/charlie-kirk-teams-up-with-dominionists-and-christian-nationalists-to-wage-spiritual-war/
When Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for president, many assumed he would quietly distance himself from his father, Rafael Cruz, since the elder Cruz has long been extreme in his religious views, and outspoken in proclaiming them.
But the opposite has been the case. Rafael Cruz has been the senator’s primary surrogate on the campaign trail, particularly with the evangelical voters who are now Ted Cruz’s base. The two have frequently spoken together, prayed together, campaigned together-even shot highly awkward “slice of life” videos together.
The reason Ted Cruz might be reluctant to embrace his father so publicly is that Rafael Cruz subscribes to what is known as dominionism, which holds that Christianity should exercise “dominion” over all of society, not just the traditional boundaries of religion. <...>
The etymological and Scriptural roots of dominionism are God’s command that Adam and Eve should “have dominion over all the earth” and Isaiah 2:2, which says, “Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains.” Those “mountains” are interpreted not literally but figuratively (evangelicals are actually only selectively literalistic) as referring to the “seven mountains” of society, specifically family, religion, arts and entertainment, media, government, education, and business.
And since an overwhelming majority of evangelicals-more than 75 percent, according to recent surveys-believe that the “latter days” are already here, the time for dominion is now. Hence the recent flood of Christian movies like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Christian businesses like Hobby Lobby, and Christian politicians like Pat Robertson.
Rafael Cruz’s new book, A Time for Action: Empowering the Faithful to Reclaim America, makes this theology quite clear. In it, he writes, “The Bible tells us that we are the salt of the earth and light of the world… Doesn’t that suggest that our influence should touch every area of society-our families, the media, sports, arts and entertainment, education, business, and government?”
Notice that not only did Cruz state the dominionist view in general, but he listed the specific “seven mountains” in which dominionists believe. <...>
Rafael Cruz’s worldview is deeply informed by (and sometimes copied word-for-word from) the pseudo-history of David Barton, who now directs Ted Cruz’s SuperPAC, which has raised over $30 million from just four extremely wealthy individuals, and who was previously the chair of the Republican Party of Texas.
Before spending billions to elect Ted Cruz, Barton wrote a series of books on the founders of the United States, all roundly condemned by actual historians. For example, his book on Thomas Jefferson, a noted deist who was suspected of atheism in his lifetime, suggests that Jefferson was in fact a pious, evangelical-style Christian. That book was voted “the least credible history book in print” by the History News Network website, and was pulled by its publisher, but is now available from World Net Daily, the far-right conspiracy website. <...>
It’s easy to see how Barton’s bogus, revisionist history connects with Rafael Cruz’s dominionism. First, Barton is himself a dominionist: he said in 2011 that “If you can have those seven areas, you can shape and control whatever takes place in nations, continents and even the world.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/does-ted-cruz-think-hes-the-messiah
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Neugebauer's goal from the beginning, in his telling, was to "expand the brand" of Cruz, a conservative crusader who had made more enemies than friends during his short time in the Senate. "Make him more likable to a larger audience of people" was how Neugebauer would later put it.
Neugebauer ultimately secured commitments from New York hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, who gave $11 million to start Keep the Promise I, and the West Texas fracking billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks, whose families contributed $15 million to found Keep the Promise III. Neugebauer's $10 million went into Keep the Promise II.
Those sums instantly cemented Mercer, Neugebauer and the Wilkses as the top donors to super PACs of the 2016 election cycle. Cruz embraced the cash infusion, boasting of his allied super PACs' war chests - combined with his campaign's own reserves - in some of the earliest versions of his stump speech.
Neugebauer told the donors to spend at their own pace, and they had discretion to put together their own teams. Mercer's daughter Rebekah would go on to serve as an emissary for his Keep the Promise I, while Jon Francis, a member of the Wilks family, would play a similar role in Keep the Promise III.
The first major hire the Keep the Promise groups made was Kellyanne Conway, a veteran conservative pollster who had previously worked on Newt Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign. Conway was named president of Keep the Promise I, and she was joined there by Matthew Taylor, an ad maker for Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. <...>
David Barton, an influential evangelical activist and author, was brought in to lead Keep the Promise PAC, which at the time was viewed as the main vehicle overseeing the three other groups.
What Barton discovered, according to some accounts, was an unorthodox organization struggling with communication - and perhaps more distressingly in the world of political finance - trust. Barton and others were impressed with Neugebauer’s savvy in laying the $38 million foundation and slingshotting Cruz to the front of the money race, but the follow-through was becoming a different story.
“The shock and awe was there,” Barton said. “But then you have to turn that into the ground game, the ads and the digital, and it all costs money.”
To help, Barton recruited Chris Britton, an Austin lobbyist with long experience in Texas politics - including a stint as deputy chief of staff to former Gov. Rick Perry.
Representatives of the groups began holding conference calls more regularly, going over the news of the day, gaming out strategy and, as the race heated up, hearing reports from staff in different states. In Iowa, Conway made one of her first hires in Jeff King, the son of and political adviser to U.S. Rep. Steve King of the Hawkeye State.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/17/cruz-super-pac-story/
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The Wilks Brothers, along with political commentator Ben Shapiro helped launch and fund The Daily Wire, a conservative news and opinion website in 2015. Additionally, the Wilks Brothers are responsible for much of the funding of PragerU, a conservative YouTube channel and media company started by Dennis Prager to further conservative causes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_and_Farris_Wilks
Их собственные религиозные наклонности замысловаты.
In addition to his business ventures, Farris, the older brother, is also a pastor at the church founded by his father, The Assembly of Yahweh (7th Day). The church’s doctrine seems to be an amalgam based on the elder Wilks’ anachronistic interpretations of the Bible. It combines biblical literalism with a heavy emphasis on the Old Testament: The church celebrates its Sabbath on Saturday, follows the dietary rules laid down in Leviticus, and celebrates Jewish holidays but not “the religious holidays of the Gentiles,” which include “Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, White Sunday, Good Friday, and Halloween.” (I had to look up White Sunday, which is a traditional Samoan holiday. There’s a significant Samoan community in Texas). Women may not speak during worship. <...>
He said “there are only two basic ideas in the whole world” - and those are free enterprise and socialism. The U.S., he warned, is “inching closer to socialism.” You either have more government or more freedom; the more money taken from you in taxes, the fewer choices you have in life. He acknowledged that he has a “personal stake” in this, saying he pays a “huge amount” in taxes.
He urged congregants not to vote for politicians who promise “free this, free that,” saying that would lead us to become one of the poor nations of the world. “Yahweh never intended for us as a people to be afraid and reliant on government.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-wilks-brothers-fracking-sugar-daddies-for-the-far-right/
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Rob McCoy is pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel church and, as of Tuesday, mayor of Thousand Oaks, California. In September, over some neighborhood opposition, his congregation moved into a former YMCA facility that was bought and renovated by the foundation of Dan Wilks, a Texas fracking billionaire who supports Religious Right and Christian nationalist causes. According to the Citizens Journal, Wilks was on hand to celebrate the move. <...>
This is not the first time McCoy has benefited from the largesse of the Wilks family. When McCoy made his first run for public office, for state legislature in 2014, Dan Wilks, his brother Farris and their wives gave thousands of dollars to McCoy’s campaign. (After losing his bid for the legislature, McCoy ran for and won a seat on the Thousand Oaks City Council.)
Why are these Texans so interested in a local politician in California? The connection is Christian nationalist David Lane. For more than two decades, Lane has been organizing gatherings that bring together conservative pastors and politicians with the hope of getting pastors to preach more aggressively about politics and to get their congregants to vote. Lane says it was McCoy, his pastor, that inspired his more recent effort to recruit a thousand evangelical pastors to run for public office. Part of Lane’s theory is that is pastor-candidates can each mobilize hundreds of congregants as volunteers, and the resulting impact could be felt on campaigns up and down the ticket.
The Wilks brothers, who were interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network at one of Lane’s events in Iowa in 2013, have funneled lots of money to Lane’s American Renewal Project (and other Religious Right causes) through the foundations they set up after selling their fracking services company for billions of dollars: Dan and his wife Staci have Heavenly Father’s Foundation, while Farris and his wife have the Thirteen Foundation.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/texas-fracking-billionaires-foundation-buys-church-for-christian-nationalist-pastor-in-california/
In his conversation with Kirk, McCoy used seven mountains language, saying that God had raised up Trump, a man who had “currency” in the “mountains” of cultural influence-entertainment, media, politics, and business. “If you don’t like him, fine,” McCoy said. “But you know why God picked him? Because there were no Christians available.” There were other Christian candidates, of course, but none were “equipped” like Trump.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/charlie-kirk-teams-up-with-dominionists-and-christian-nationalists-to-wage-spiritual-war/
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