US Senator Lindsey Graham insisted in a TV interview that Israel should drop nuclear bombs on Gaza, where more than 2 million Palestinian civilians, includin...
I find it so weird that Evangelicals want to BRING ABOUT the apocalypse. Plenty of other religions believe in an “end time”, but you don’t see this kind of behavior from Jews, Muslims or even most older Christian sects. They all accept God is a being so powerful and all knowing that understanding his grand plans is impossible and you are just gonna have to accept the end times will come about when God wills it and just live you life as best you can till them.
Evangelicals want to be able to not just predict, but incite the apocalypse. Like what if they think they don’t put the leg work in Gods grand plan is gonna get totally derailed and reality will have to keep chugging along a few thousand years past schedule? Gods gonna be PISSED if I don’t get the US to nuke Iran, it will fuck up his whole timetable!
Christian Fascism is defined by almost complete lack of theology or scholarship, and for being extremely schismatic to a farcical degree. It’s a religion of the id, of the pure libido of the American white suburban aggrieved peitit boug psychopath. It’s all about petty greed and spite and personal wish fulfillment.
milennarianism requires the twinge of new developments to get the ball rolling, but once it starts ‘you can’t expect god to do all the work’ and ‘we need to prepare’ apocalyptic ideology start mixing together & spawning actual activist tendencies. this is where you get people selling all their belongings, long distance pilgrimage/migration, novel social organization, and for people with state power, an exercise of it (usually on vulnerable people).
so in this case evangelicals haven’t been constantly on an israel apocalypse fever for the 200 or so years whereever you wana peg ‘evangelicalism’, but it springs from the simple existence of israel which checks one of the prophetic boxes in their interpretation, and then right now they’re having a war & spiked the interest because they think there’s a bigger opportunity. a couple years ago in the slow apartheid stage of the conflict, evangelicals didn’t have the same excitement. unless Lindsey Graham was banging a proliferation drum for the past decade, his statement demonstrates this.
I find it so weird that Evangelicals want to BRING ABOUT the apocalypse. Plenty of other religions believe in an “end time”, but you don’t see this kind of behavior from Jews, Muslims or even most older Christian sects. They all accept God is a being so powerful and all knowing that understanding his grand plans is impossible and you are just gonna have to accept the end times will come about when God wills it and just live you life as best you can till them.
Evangelicals want to be able to not just predict, but incite the apocalypse. Like what if they think they don’t put the leg work in Gods grand plan is gonna get totally derailed and reality will have to keep chugging along a few thousand years past schedule? Gods gonna be PISSED if I don’t get the US to nuke Iran, it will fuck up his whole timetable!
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I think they’re trying to usher in the apocalypse in order to validate their own fucked up worldview.
Christian Fascism is defined by almost complete lack of theology or scholarship, and for being extremely schismatic to a farcical degree. It’s a religion of the id, of the pure libido of the American white suburban aggrieved peitit boug psychopath. It’s all about petty greed and spite and personal wish fulfillment.
milennarianism requires the twinge of new developments to get the ball rolling, but once it starts ‘you can’t expect god to do all the work’ and ‘we need to prepare’ apocalyptic ideology start mixing together & spawning actual activist tendencies. this is where you get people selling all their belongings, long distance pilgrimage/migration, novel social organization, and for people with state power, an exercise of it (usually on vulnerable people).
so in this case evangelicals haven’t been constantly on an israel apocalypse fever for the 200 or so years whereever you wana peg ‘evangelicalism’, but it springs from the simple existence of israel which checks one of the prophetic boxes in their interpretation, and then right now they’re having a war & spiked the interest because they think there’s a bigger opportunity. a couple years ago in the slow apartheid stage of the conflict, evangelicals didn’t have the same excitement. unless Lindsey Graham was banging a proliferation drum for the past decade, his statement demonstrates this.