Original sentence: Dominionism describes a movement among socially conservative Christians to gain influence or control over secular civil government through political action — seeking either a nation governed by Christians or a nation governed by a Christian understanding of biblical law
Edited sentence: Dominionism describes a movement among socially conservative Christians to gain influence or control over secular civil government through political action — seeking either a nation dominated by Christians or a nation dominated by a Christian understanding of biblical law.Religious historians, like Nathan Hatch, Mark Noll and others, also suggest that modern fundamentalists are nostalgic for a time that never really existed as they imagine it: a time in the indefinite past, before the turbulent sixties, when wholesomeness, and sanity, and harmony prevailed under a benevolent religion much as they conceive their own to be.Writers such as Anthony Williams and Stanley Kurtz deny that dominionism is widely influential in American politics, dismissing the suggestion as "leftish fantasies," "conspiratorial nonsense," "political paranoia," and "guilt by association"