Dominionism and Anthropocentrism: I think those 2 words sum up much of what I hate about the world.
I've been thinking of this a lot lately, with politicians ignoring separation of church and state, and just abusing the Earth and animals out of some sense of entitlement.
Then I saw Lady Lee's thread, "The Marital Due", and I realized dubbish thinking extends dominionism to women's bodies as well. Their bodies are the property of the husbands, to do with what they wish, with no regard for anyone else's needs or wants.
When you think about it, dubs are some of the most extreme proponents of these concepts. Don't bother with conservation; Jehoopla and his staff of avian janitors will clean it up.
Anthropocentrism A longstanding usage of dominionism among social scientists and legal scholars describes a Biblical argument in favor of anthropocentrism, a favoring of the rights and interests of humans in relation to environmentalism and/or animal rights. [1][2]
Manifest Destiny is the historical belief that the United States is destined and divinely ordained by God [1] to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.
Dominionism Although dominionism is used in several distinct ways, the origin of most usage can be traced back to a specific passage in the King James Version of the Bible: "And God blessed [Adam and Eve] and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." -Genesis1:28 (KJV)
Dominion Theology is a grouping of theological systems with the common belief that society should be governed exclusively by the law of God as codified in the Bible, to the exclusion of secular law. The two main streams of Dominion Theology are Christian Reconstructionism and Kingdom now theology. Though these two differ greatly in their general theological orientation (the first is strongly Reformed and Neo-Calvinistic, the second is Charismatic), they share a postmillenial vision in which the kingdom of God will be established on Earth through political and (in some cases) even military means.