The Seven Mountains Mandate, Project 2025, Government Policy, and Murder

Seven Mountains Mandate, a Christian Nationalist group that helped write Project 2025 and has ties to the murder of Minnesota Representative, Melissa Hortman.

The Minnesota Shooter, Vance Boelter, was a part of a Christian College with the ties to a Christian Nationalist group known as The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). This Pentecostal group has ties to a larger and deeply rooted right wing movement, the Seven Mountains Mandate. Leaders are intent on dominating seven “spheres of society”, family. religion, media, arts & entertainment, education, business and government. Meaning, they teach the Christian takeover of society is ordained. By God. the modern apostles of 7M teach ‘the theocratic idea that Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society by taking control of political and cultural institutions.”

The Cruelty is the point

MAGA approved and embraced, the heart of this movement stretches back to the Manifest Destiny beliefs of the 17th and 18th centuries. That belief was sanctified by papal decree after Columbus returned from his 1492 voyage. What followed was centuries of slavery, torture, whippings, and terror, regularly, as forms of indoctrination, I mean conversion.

Pressure from abolitionists, freed black folk, like Frederick Douglas and international community pushed the country to civil war, freeing the slaves. Reconstruction was very short-lived. The backlash was immediate. Jim Crow spread using the pseudo-religious dominionism of groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Ensuring the tyranny of white supremacy. Bible verses such as Genesis 1:28 (“have dominion over the earth”) were twisted into tools of subjugation and power grabs.

Break throughs in equality and freedom of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s finally brought something resembling true democracy to America. Lyndon B Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. But the backlash came quickly. Racism, once overt, went underground. Dog whistles replaced slurs. Pulpits preached “law and order” instead of segregation. “Bad neighborhoods,” “criminals,” and “drug users” became coded language for Black communities. The quiet part stayed quiet — but it never went away.

In the South, the Klan burned crosses at night. In the North, everyone knew which neighborhoods were “unsafe.” These tactics echoed the 1800s, when Frances Willard of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union warned white women about “drunken Black men.” Meanwhile Ida B. Wells exposed the truth about lynching after losing her own friends to racial terror. Their clash set the stage for a religious cold war that later manifested in Jerry Falwell’s “Moral Majority” and the rise of Ronald Reagan.ng crosses on lawns while wearing cone headed sheets. In the urban areas of the north Everyone knew which side of the city was “unsafe,” and which was not. The use of these tactics, still used today, are throwbacks to the 1800’s when Frances Willard of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union called for temperance and warned her members of unsafe, drunken black men. The counterpoint being Ida B Wells speaking out against lynching and other horrors after losing two friends to lynching, set the stage for a religious cold war that manifested itself with Jerry Falwell’s “moral majority,” and the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.

Jimmy Swaggert to Jerry Falwell

The religious right of Reagan realized they could not openly espouse their unnatural and violent beliefs. In public they turned to a more “benevolent” spirituality. Whites formed small underground groups and developed a coded language meant to sound supportive but were Mirco aggressive attacks upon black folk’s humanity. The culture of racial persecution through the use of religious sounding language had not really changed. It just hid in plain sight. The South had a Bible belt. The North had unspoken segregation. Both sides engaged in a two-tiered law enforcement system. Laws had been created, yet enforcement was almost non-existent. Black folks had opportunities, but frankly, as soon as they made economic progress the white race found ways to take it away from “uppity” black folks. Assumptions of black immorality, criminality, and violence are considered legitimate to this day.

Preachers that mastered the art of coded language, like Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, and Jimmy Swaggert found ways to incorporate “God’s will” of white wealth and superiority, with vehement anti-homosexuality. They took to TV, with thousands of followers and ushered in the tel evangelical movement. Along with coded racial language they tossed in hatred of gays. This grew the base, bringing folks back to the church, and created opportunities for new dominionistic political policy.

Tel evangelists stoked self-righteousness, calling out the sinners on the left (blacks, gays, Jews, non-Christians, and feminists) and wrapped it all in a patina of religious language. Using religiosity, Bible verses, personal anecdotes, and good ol’ boy charm they created politically charged sermons. Their divisive and oppressive language of moral superiority soothed the conscience of white Americans unsettled by the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. And they brought millions back into the fold. This revival of religious nationalism created fertile ground for dominionist politics.

The moral majority and the set up

Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority transformed right‑wing religion into a political force that Ronald Reagan rode straight into the White House. During an economic downturn, Reagan used campaign slogan “Let’s make America great again.” His folksy, religious appeal to “sunnier” times gave permission to blame civil rights progress for the economic slowdown, without uttering a single word about race. It primed the pump of dominionism. He carried enough water for a full-grown tree. Evangelical and Pentecostal religions had been working on a political theology of conquest. Evangelical and Pentecostal leaders had already been crafting a political theology of conquest. Reagan gave them a national stage.

Journey to the Seven Mountains

In 1975, three influential evangelical leaders — Bill Bright (Campus Crusade for Christ), Francis Schaeffer (theologian and writer), and Loren Cunningham (Youth With a Mission) — claimed to receive “direct communications” from God. They envisioned a theocracy built by conquering seven “mountains” of society: family, religion, media, arts and entertainment, education, business, and government.

For years, the movement remained fringe, yet, fervently followed within evangelical circles.

By the 1990s, right‑wing conservatism had paved the way for a more aggressive, politically militant version of the Seven Mountains Mandate. The original idea was reshaped into a doctrine of spiritual warfare — a belief that Christians must seize institutions, dismantle secular governance, and impose God’s rule on the nation.

By the mid‑1990s, the Seven Mountains Mandate had hardened into something more militant — a worldview that saw weakness in a pluralist society, rejected coexistence, and treated compromise as treachery. Political Research Associates describes this version of dominionism bluntly:

“…it does not envision a society defined by democracy and equality. It is rooted in what is called the dominion mandate or cultural mandate found in Genesis 1:28: ‘[A]nd God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion…’”
— 101: Dominionism, Political Research Associates

This is the theological backbone of the modern movement — a belief that democracy is optional, but dominion is mandatory.

How the Seven Spheres Are Already Being Implemented

How the seven spheres are already being implemented

Donald Trump, Project 2025, and the Seven Mountains Mandate

Evangelists like Lance Wallnau, Invading Babylon: The 7 Mountain Mandate Charlie Kirk, and Paula White-Cain were instrumental in propelling Donald Trump into the White House. Trump wanted total control; dominionists offered a theological blueprint for bypassing democracy entirely: make politics a matter of getting “right with God.”.

Wallnau’s work with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) brought the Seven Mountains Mandate into the right‑wing mainstream. Paula White‑Cain and other extreme religious leaders amplified Trump’s rise. Trump’s embrace of dominionist conservatism fueled deep anti‑trans and anti‑“woke” messaging, creating a worldview of pure binaries — literal black‑and‑white thinking.”

They raised the stakes of everyday interactions and events. Trump rallies were carnivals of bias where journalists were mocked openly, pitting them against his raging followers. Local public-school councils were invaded by angry parents demanding their “rights” at the expense of other’s freedom. Books were banned. PragerU — a cartoonishly racist, homophobic, and misogynistic propaganda outlet — found its way into public schools in conservative districts.

By the end of his first term, Trump had infiltrated nearly every sphere of society except Arts & Entertainment and Business. But, in his 2^nd term he made up for that by making himself “Chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”And then closing the Center for two years. Ostensiblry for renovations. He also tore down the East Wing to build a ballroom. That title is not a traditional or historical role — the Kennedy Center does not normally have a “chair” appointed by a president. This is a political creation, not an institutional one. He can now check off Arts and Entertainment.

He compensated by undermining public health during COVID, turning vaccines and safety measures into ideological battlegrounds.

While he was out of office, his movement did not rest. Dominionist leaders mobilized their youth as “God’s army,” bullied their way onto school boards, and continued sowing distrust in the media and democratic institutions. Their most consequential project was Project 2025, a 900‑page blueprint for seizing control of the federal government within 180 days.

As the Bucks County Beacon reported:

The 7M movement was not sitting on its hands during Trump’s sojourn in the wilderness… movement leaders — including White‑Cain and Wallnau — embraced a local strategy… waging an aggressive campaign to influence public school policymakers… nowhere has borne the brunt of it like Woodland Park, Colorado, where a ministry with deep ties to Wallnau is explicitly attempting to take over the town.”

—The Seven Mountains Mandate Is the Biggest Political Story the Mainstream Media Is Missing - Bucks County Beacon

Most, if not all of the goals of Project 2025 were realized near the 100-day mark of the Trump’s 2nd Administration.

There is a Faith Based Office in the White House, run by Paula White-Cain ensuring that religion and 7M is defended and propagated through executive power.

Let’s do a quick re-check of the list: Federal jobs have been gutted. Civil servants who upheld the Constitution were fired; loyalists remained. Funding was slashed across departments. Tariffs were imposed. CEOs courted Trump with gifts. He installed himself as chair of the Kennedy Center. Museums and historical sites were altered to remove unflattering references to the country — or to Trump himself. Universities were told to change their curricula or lose funding. Federal troops were deployed in blue states.

Women cannot get access abortions Birth control is difficult to obtain., LGBTQ rights are under assault. The Voting Rights Act has been gutted. And the Save Act has passed. Further cutting the number of people mostly married women, who can vote.

Texas attempted to redistrict its entire state at the president’s request. DEI is under attack everywhere.

Project 2025 was a blueprint for all of these changes. Project 2025 was written by people espousing dominionism.

Seven Mountains Mandate Members that worked on Project 2025

also included on this list are Peter Navarro, Monica Crowley, Tom Homan, Brendan Carr, Michael Atkin, John Ratcliff, not that they hold prominent positions

Significant Impact

The impact of Christian Nationalism on American history is more profound than it seems. White privilege has been an unspoken secret throughout the lives of many of us, yet everyone follows the rules. We don’t talk about racism. Racism was something “bad people” did — which subconsciously translates to not having to confront inherited beliefs. Unfortunately, we all have underlying beliefs.

We once believed democracy was bulletproof. Now we’re seeing the truth, and it is uncomfortable.

An old high school teacher of mine used to say, “The solution is in the problem. Recognize the problem, focus on the solution.” Jillian Michaels was right about one thing: you have to “get comfortable with being uncomfortable” in order to change.

Maybe we should aspire to be the biggest losers after all — shedding the illusions that kept us from seeing the danger in front of us.

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