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Awful. Can we talk about how hard it is to criticize the Israeli government without a bunch of people calling it antisemitism? No nations government is above criticism and just because your government is based around a set religion doesn't absolve it from criticism for the horrible things they do. We need to stop funding Israel.
Hell yeah we can talk about it. Good for the squad for being the only people in Washington not pandering to that murderous extremest regime.
I don't think enough people fully understand just exactly why America and especially the Evangelical right support Israel so much. The answer is it's an end of worlds doomsday cult attempting to bring upon armageddon based on what they think the bible says. We literally have a large portion of our government actively supporting Israel because they hope it will bring about the end of the world (WW3???). This is a great interview from NPR with one of the top biblical scholars out there (Bart Ehrman) explaining exactly this.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167715957/armageddon-shows-how-literal-readings-of-the-bibles-end-times-affect-modern-timeIf you don't want to read the whole interview, this passage lays down some of the basics of the death cult in our country hoping to bring upon the end of days with their support.TERRY GROSS: "Let's talk about the role of Israel in the narrative of the end times as described in the Book of Revelation. What has to happen in Israel before the end times are set up and Jesus returns?
BART EHRMAN: One of the issues I deal with in my book is the historical question of why it is that American evangelicals are so supportive of the state of Israel. And I trace the history of it because it completely relates to Christian understandings, evangelical understandings, of what's going to happen at the end of time. And so people don't realize this because they think, well, of course there are all sorts of reasons to support Israel. We have the issue of, you know, wanting a supporter in the Mideast. You know, they're - got to protect oil issue. You know, there's issues about oil. There's issues about, you know, stability. And all of that's right.
But American evangelicals are disproportionately in support of Israel. And the reason has to do with the Bible. It's because evangelicals have long read biblical prophecies as - indicating that Israel has to be established and strong before Jesus can return. Israel was destroyed in the second century C.E., and it hadn't been a nation. And so Christian Zionism, the idea that - Christians saying that Israel has to become a state again, that actually started before there was, you know, the Zionism we're all familiar with at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century. And the Christian Zionists absolutely supported Jewish Zionists because they believed that the prophecy had to be fulfilled. Later, after 1948, which Christians continue to - evangelical Christians continue to see 1948, the establishment of Israel, as a fulfillment of prophecy."
BTW can we talk about the stupidity of trying to fulfill "prophecy"? If I wrote a book saying "There will be a time when a giant Rabbit statue will be built in the plains of Kansas and this will bring upon years of prosperity and growth, and then thousands of years later people start following me and call me a prophet and go out and actively work to build the giant rabbit statue, is that really fullfilling prophecy? To me it sounds like working to make something happen which is in no way prophecy, and that's exactly what it seems evangelicals are doing. In what way is prophecy being fulfilled if people are just doing what you say has to happen?
