As for theological studies, it is a farce to argue that an ‘Evangelist Shepherd’ should be qualified by ‘laws of men’. God lifts up the ‘genuine preachers of prophecies, let us see some biblical texts:1 Corinthians 1:26-28; Luke 19:40, 46, and 48. this last verse of the chapter makes ‘reference’ to the strategies of Freemasonry; to make to believe that Donald Trump is acting against globalism or the imminent establishment of the ‘New World Order’; the mission and objective of the ‘evangelizing campaign’ promoted by Ralph Drollinger can be read in Matthew 24:24; Revelation 16:14; 19:20 and its leader is described in Revelation 13:17 (Current sanctions exercised under the Trump administration; for example, trade war, disputes with currency exchange, oil and gas control, imposed economic sanctions, and obstruction of aid between countries that do not accept their leadership; in addition, he believes to be ‘a god’ to dictate decisions “WHO IS THE OWNER OF WHAT”

In the Bible, Mr. Trump’s U.S. administrative period is depicted in the biblical quotations above and in the book of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4; If we read these biblical texts and Mr. Ralph Drollinger and Mr. Warren Throckmorton are unable to interpret them; Then, we have reached ‘the final hour’ that tells us that the “New World Order” as the last sign identified with ‘the Antichrist’ 1 John 2:18-19, 22-23; 4:2-3. Therefore, ‘the antichrist’ is not a man, but a ‘group of Israelite descendants’ who ‘claim to be Jews but they are not.’ Revelation 2:8-10; to whom is this verse addressed? To all those ‘Jewish descendant’ who is linked to the “NEW WORLD ORDER”. A ‘hard stone’ writes to all of you as a foolishness without theological titles

I’ve found this post very interesting. I concur with you that it can be credibly claimed that D is (might one put it this way?) at least ‘on the Christian nationalist spectrum’.

For me, the use of the term “dictatorship” – which D does not explicitly deny, although his organization appears to infer that he didn’t really mean “dictatorship” – in the presence of one who often seems to be inclined to dictatorial ways (eg. changing his defence policy without reference to his cabinet) is worrying enough to be going on with, even if Sam’s scepticism about D being a Christian nationalist per se is justified.

Well, it appears that Drollinger’s outfit denies that D advocated dictatorship, although there appears also to be no direct denial of the use of the term “benevolent dictatorship”: https://capmin.org/capitol-ministries-responds-to-newsweek/

The CM response to the Newsweek article contains some other interesting assertions. Here’s one of them:-

“Drollinger is not a climate-change denier. He understands that the world has always experienced climate change. What he does not believe is that man has the power or the ability to destroy the ecological system that God perfectly designed.”

My response to that last sentence is “hmmmmm”! Has he not heard of nuclear weapons?! Or, at a rather less dramatic level, is he not aware that many species, presumably intended to be part of the “ecological system that God perfectly designed”, are critically endangered owing to human activity?

And I’m puzzled by this bit:-

“The Newsweek story reported: ‘Nowhere to be found in the NT is an explicit command for the Institution of the State to assume such a function,’ he wrote. ‘Jesus was only a role model to emulate.’ The last of these two points is false, inflammatory, taken out of context, and libelous.”

Not quite sure why he is making such a fuss about this … although the NT gives us several other role models, the most notable being Mary.

All ideological, including theological, positions are relative; noone has a monopoly on ‘the truth’, since truth is ultimately vested in God alone. Any human perspective, however enlightened or inspired, is to some extent compromised by human limitations. This reality is one of things that invites those of us who call ourselves Christians to embrace humility.

I agree with you entirely that many people outside the Church have much to offer the human family. In our (catholic) neck of woods, we often talk of “people of good will” (outside the Church) – and rightly so.

The reports that Drollinger asked Trump for “dictatorship” (whether “benevolent” or not is ultimately unimportant – dictatorship is dictatorship, and power always corrupts … again the reality of the human condition, as so powerfully expressed in Genesis) have not, to my knowledge, been contested by him (Drollinger). Whatever one might think of Drollinger as a theologian, the apparent advocacy of “dictatorship” is not something we should welcome, is it?

Thank you for inviting sam80 to stop and actually read the comment he imagines he is responding to.

I have not seen any reports about that so- called benevolent dictatorship thus I can’t make a comment on its substance. Based on the Newsweek article, I probably doubt if it ever existed.

Like I said, I have no idea what benevolent dictatorship means and the Newsweek article does not provide explanation, so I can’t come to conclusion whether Drollinger actually pracited it.

From the position of moral relativism, an ideology that there is no absolute truth, claiming that what you believe is the absolute truth and is better than what others believe, is disrespectful. But in general, you can believe that your Christian faith is better than other philosophies/religions/ideologies thus believing that it would make you a more effective workers than others, does not necessarily mean than non-Christians have no value or cannot serve God without acknowledging him per se, or that evangelicals should treat others badly. Actually, quite the opposite is true.

Like I said, I have no idea what benevolent dictatorship means and the Newsweek article does not provide explanation, so I can’t come to conclusion whether Drollinger actually pracited it.

From the position of moral relativism, an ideology that there is no absolute truth, claiming that what you believe is the absolute truth and is better than what others believe, is disrespectful. But in general, you can believe that your Christian faith is better than other philosophies/religions/ideologies thus believing that it would make you a more effective workers than others, does not necessarily mean than non-Christians have no value or cannot serve God without acknowledging him per se, or that evangelicals should treat others badly. Actually, quite the opposite is true.

What exactly, in your view, is a benevolent dictatorship? It is a dictatorship, is it not?

To dismiss automatically someone’s effectiveness or potential simply because she/he is not of the same ideological preference is IMO disrespectful.

Drollinger wouldn’t be doing anything if there weren’t many Democratic politicians who are anit-Christian nationalists, like Bernie Sanders. It is obvious that for secularist liberal Bible-hating world loving-bigots, Ralph Drollinger is a serious threat, but do God fearing Bible-based Christian he is a true hero, who is being lift of the world/salt of the earth, just like Jesus.