New ‘Davos 7 Mountains’ Scheme Comes with Wine and a Ski-Lift
In 1975, key evangelical leaders were alarmed with recent advances in secularism and human rights. In their lifetimes’, they witnessed what was once unthinkable: The civil rights movement, women’s liberation, Woodstock, and a nascent push for LGBTQ equality. These deeply religious men viewed modern developments as the end of Western civilization and a direct path societal collapse.
Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ (now Cru), and Loren Cunningham, founder of Youth With A Mission, were disgruntled evangelical stars. The two men convened in Colorado to plot how they could turn back the surging liberal tide. They decided that in order to save society and prepare the world for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, right wing Christians must hijack America’s critical institutions.
Bright and Cunningham both claimed to have received a divine message in Colorado, identifying seven key areas of strategic influence where Christians must seek total dominion: Government, Education, Media, Arts & Entertainment, Religion, Family, and Business.
They branded these cultural sectors “mountains” that must be scaled by their ideological comrades. Hence, the 7 Mountains Mandate (7MM) was born–and this new concept was soon popularized by right wing theologian Francis Schaeffer.
In this theocratic scheme, right wing Christians were commanded to infiltrate professions in these seven arenas. Of course, those who participate in this surreptitious chicanery, are two-faced and operating in bad faith. The visage they present to the world is one where they are dedicated servants. In reality, they are misrepresenting themselves, while stealthily serving an extremist movement rather than their company or country.
Today, the Seven Mountains Mandate is embraced by radical Chrisitan movements, such as the New Apostolic Reformation and Bethel Church in Redding, California. Bethel has the nation’s largest “ex-gay” ministry and believes its faith healing team can regrow limbs on amputees. Paula White, spiritual advisor to Donald Trump, is part of this crazy movement.
7MM’s growth has always been limited by class issues. It was often dismissed as a pipe dream for lowbrow, backwoods, tongue speaking evangelical simpletons. Well, imagine if the gaudy, gospel music blaring, tent revival, was suddenly supplanted by sophisticated billionaires in a gilded boardroom, huddled around an Italian marble table, while Bach and Beethoven were melodiously piped in through Bose speakers.
Enter Project 2025’s Teneo Network, which is essentially a warmed-over remake of the Seven Mountains Mandate for “Cadillac Conservative” elites. Instead of speaking in tongues, they offer corporate platitudes. They sip Napa Valley wine in lieu of guzzling warm beer. But they share the same theocratic worldview of Christian supremacy and the desire to control every finite detail of society, down to the smallest aspects of our individual personal lives.
