Moiv has posted an excellent diary in regards to Operation Save America's misappropriation of Martin Luther King Jr's famous "Letters from a Birmingham Jail" and their ongoing protests of a Birmingham women's clinic (that was the target of Army of God bomber Eric Rudolph); in this discussion, a poster noted how a dominionist "pro-lifer" literally accused him of being an agent of the Devil and full of demons.
Having grown up in the dominionist "demon-haunted world" myself, I wanted to give a bit of perspective as to why they say stuff like that--and to give readers of the series on dominionist "parallel economies" a perspective as to why the very concept of a "parallel economy" has such currency and how dominionists can literally demonise their critics--seeing them not as human, but as Evil Incarinate.
Having grown up literally on the "other end" of things to the original respondent (specifically, I am a survivor of the very folks promoting the concept of a demon-haunted world in the dominionist movement), I can assure you that what is actively promoted in the dominionist movement is as bad--or in many cases worse--than what you might see directly on the "front lines" of the abortion debate, as bad as that is.
Many of the folks in a particular subset of dominionism (in fact, the oldest subset if you take its full 100+ year history into account) called the "Joel's Army" movement have been involved in domestic terrorism against clinics almost from the time the US Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade; in the very "Joel's Army" group I escaped from, literature from the "Army of God" was promoted and Eric Rudolph was seen as a sort of folk hero.
It would be disturbing enough if these were isolated loons. Unfortunately, "Joel's Army" theology is in fact officially embraced by the largest neopentecostal denomination on the planet, is becoming increasingly influential in countries outside the US (notably parts of Africa and Australia, where the Family First party and Hillsong Assemblies of God have been trying to brew a dominionist movement in Oz)...and in Guatemala, has been responsible for not one but two genocidal reigns of terror where the country's military had to conduct coups to stop things from getting worse. These are also the same folks responsible for the "Jesus Camp" depicted in the film of the same name; "getting them young" and keeping them isolated and indoctrinated is an increasing focus of dominionists and the dominionist "parallel economy", as we'll see later in the series.
And the mentality...it would not be exaggeration to call it induced mental illness, or more properly purposely induced psychiatric injury. Much of the hardline dominionist movement has characteristics that indicate much of the movement can be described as a coercive religious movement (in other words, large segments of dominionist movements can be properly described as "Bible-based cults"; this even includes groups involved in the business world like AmWay); the "deliverance ministry" (that promotes the idea that workers at women's clinics are literally demonised or sons of the devil) that is promoted by Operation Save America and the "Joel's Army" movement in fact shares nearly identical characteristics of extreme spiritual, mental and occasional physical abuse with Scientology (in fact, the concepts of "demonisation", "opening doorways for Satan" and "sons of the devil" in "deliverance ministries" map with Scientology's "body thetans", "enturbulation", and "suppressive persons" almost to a T; seriously, you can almost replace "Xenu" with "Satan" and vice versa with much of the core theology).
Exit counselors who have worked with voluntary walkaways from dominionist neopentecostal groups into "deliverance ministry" have reported these groups destroying marriages, on occasion ending lives of unfortunate victims of "exorcisms" (along with the more direct domestic terrorism), and ruining lives and sanity (people literally being driven into nervous breakdowns as a result of involuntary exorcism and ending up hospitalised as a result is not uncommon; sadly, mental breaks resulting from "deliverance ministries" that end up dead from suicide as the result of psychiatric injury also is not uncommon, and complex PTSD as a result of involvement in abusive dominionist groups is pretty much par for the course).
And trust me, it's not just abortion that sends them into a lather. These are also people who are convinced that merely doing business with a non-dominionist can literally infest them with demons that will "oppress" them, who promote theocratic groups in part because they feel it is their mandate to "name and claim" the entire country because if they don't God will "take away America's blessing" and cause it to be destroyed (and who think women's clinics and tolerance of LGBT people are causing "demonic oppression" of the entire country), literally believe that things like peace signs or even friggin' Cabbage Patch Kids are infested with demons and "open up doorways for Satan", and who also explicitly target mainstream Christian churches for "conversion from within" via "cuckoo church" cell-church groups.
These are also the same people who gave and give billions of dollars to televangelists and dominionist churches as "seed faith offerings" to "name and claim their blessings" because the pastor is promoting God as a pyramid scheme--and when the "seed faith offering" fails (as it practically always does), often the failure is blamed on "generational curses"--that one's ancestors upwards of seven generations back inadvertently "opened doorways for Satan to come into your family's life" by the crimes of having one's fortune read at Coney Island or reading horoscopes or being a hippie or having recent non-Christian ancestry (and practically all of Africa other than Ethiopia and practically everyone with even a drop of African-American or Native American ancestry probably falls into this, so it's a nasty, nasty little racket).
Seriously, many of the people involved in things like Operation Save America are...shall we say...under the definite influence of what is delicately known as "thought reform" nowadays. (I should know. I myself grew up "drinking the Flavor-Aid" and it took a very bad shock to my inner sense of right and wrong to snap me out of it.) Thought reform, as an aside, that would be of the same sorts that members of Al Quaida and the Taliban also experienced (yes, Al Quaida and the Taliban are considered coercive religious groups--"Islam-based cults"--by exit counselors).
TO PEOPLE READING MY REGULAR SERIES ON THE DOMINIONIST PARALLEL ECONOMY:
I am still getting all the links and research done for Part 3 of the continuing series on the dominionist "parallel economy" (as it is, this is involving some fairly extensive research, so posts aren't coming once a day like I had hoped they would).
In part 3 (to be coming tomorrow morning), there are a lot of implications I'm focusing on dominionist healthcare "parallel economies" that touch into everything from religious discrimination to the small hell of HMOs to child abuse issues), hence this is taking a bit. Better to get it as good as I can, I figure. :3