Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
—- Genesis 1:26
The Reverend William Franklin “Billy” Graham, Jr., founder of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, in a discussion on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s 700 Club tells Pat Robertson, the show’s host:
[T]he time has come when evangelicals are going to have to think about getting organized corporately. … I’m for evangelicals running for public office and winning if possible and getting control of the Congress, getting control of the bureaucracy, getting control of the executive branch of government. I think if we leave it to the other side we’re going to be lost. I would like to see every true believer involved in politics in some way shape or form.
Question: What was Graham proposing once evangelicals have “control?” Did he want non-believers to be treated according to the Golden Rule, or did he intend for them to be treated as animals to be lorded over (dominionism)?
[added 12/6/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.
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