{"id":7805,"date":"2007-07-02T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T21:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2007-07-02T21:22:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T01:22:03","slug":"fearmongering-dominionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7805","title":{"rendered":"FEAR MONGERING DOMINIONISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Farris and his merry band of Dominionists are bad enough without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/55717\/\">just making shit up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 &#8220;Biblical Solutions for Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sprawling 1,300-acre compound in the Blue Ridge Mountains is made up of chapels, a book store, caf\u00e9, 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).<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Worldview Super Conference.&#8221; They came to hear fundamentalist Christian speakers rail about the nation&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5197\">I&#8217;ve been to Ridgecrest<\/a>.  It&#8217;s so top-secret it has its own (well-marked) exit on the Interstate.  And it&#8217;s not all that hard to find it on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=ridgecrest,+NC&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=35.620361,-82.284915&#038;spn=0.007832,0.014591&#038;z=16&#038;iwloc=addr&#038;om=1\">Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Biblical Solutions for Life.&#8221; The sprawling 1,300-acre compound in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}