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  • FEAR MONGERING DOMINIONISM

    Filed at 5:10 pm under by dcobranchi

    Mike Farris and his merry band of Dominionists are bad enough without just making shit up:

    Tucked away a few miles off Interstate 40 just outside Asheville, N.C., the LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Center provides Southern Baptists with a remote place to facilitate the nurturing of “Biblical Solutions for Life.”

    The sprawling 1,300-acre compound in the Blue Ridge Mountains is made up of chapels, a book store, café, guest housing, drab-colored brick buildings, fences topped with barbed wire and plenty of wooded grounds for religious contemplation or recreation. It is not easily or quickly located; its address cannot be found via a Google Maps search or traced on a Global Positioning System (GPS).

    Despite its isolated location, during the last week of May hundreds of Religious Right activists and their families made their way there for a four-day “Worldview Super Conference.” They came to hear fundamentalist Christian speakers rail about the nation’s moral confusion, claim the public schools are bastions of secular humanism and warn that Christians, especially their type of Christians, are in danger of being persecuted by America.

    I’ve been to Ridgecrest. It’s so top-secret it has its own (well-marked) exit on the Interstate. And it’s not all that hard to find it on Google Maps.

    5 Responses to “FEAR MONGERING DOMINIONISM”


    Comment by
    Bonnie
    July 2nd, 2007
    at 8:55 pm

    “a few miles off Interstate 40”??? Try about 100 yards.

    “It is not easily or quickly located” Yep…got its own exit and you can see the whole place as you top Old Fort mountain. Plus, there are 2 old roads adjacent to I-40 that take you right to the front entrance of the place. Old US 70 is closed but there are folks who hike and…ahem…engage in other recreational activities along there.

    REAL secure and hush-hush, Ridgecrest is.


    Comment by
    Bonnie
    July 2nd, 2007
    at 9:10 pm

    OK…re-reading this–whoever is writing this is not part of what you call “Mike Farris and his merry band of Dominionists”, yes? The article is a little confusing. Plus, I am not familiar with any of the organizations mentioned accept HSLDA so I don’t know what their agenda is.

    I’m confused on who you are saying are the fearmongers here :-).

    Of course, I’m confused a lot nowadays…


    Comment by
    Daryl Cobranchi
    July 2nd, 2007
    at 9:21 pm

    Alternet is a liberal website. The lede is written to make the conference center into some kind of hush-hush location where the Dominionists are plotting to take over the world. They may indeed be plotting but Ridgecrest is nothing to worry about.

    Alternet are the fear mongers here.


    Comment by
    Bonnie
    July 2nd, 2007
    at 10:30 pm

    OK…I’m wicha now…I hope.

    T’anks!


    Comment by
    Nance Confer
    July 3rd, 2007
    at 7:44 am

    Fearmongering about the fearmongers? Hmmm. . . that can get tricky. 🙂

    Nance