It's impossible to understand the white evangelical attitude around persecution without unpacking Dominion Theology. This fringe movement was started by R.J. Rushdoony. That's not a household name, but Rushdoony's ideology has had a profound effect on both the American Church and political structures.
In the 1950s Rushdoony, a divorced, failed missionary to Native Americans in Nevada found a new career as a contributor to Faith and Freedom, a Christian libertarian magazine that claimed to be based around an “anti-tax, non-interventionist, anti-statist economic model.”
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