He's a Christian Zionist. Christian Zionists support Israel, but they still think Jews are Jesus Killers. But the return of Jews to the Holyland fits with their beliefs in Armageddon, because Revelations talks about it. They are content in the belief that at the end, Jews will be forced to either convert, or face the flames, along with the Catholics. He's not alone in that belief. Millions of people in the US buy those Rapture novels. No one else does. In some ways, not so different to Aum Shinryko, who tried to kick off WW3 by mounting qa biological attack on the Japanese royal family, followed by the mass casualty nerve agent attack on the Tokyo underground. They just felt the end times needed a bit of a nudge. 80% of evangelists believe in Christian Zionism, which on the surface seems like a nice happy clappy brand of Christianity the Archbishop of Canterbury or Cliff Richard would support, until you scratch below the surface, and it becomes profoundly nasty, and sectarian. More Ian Paisley than Robert Runcie. I have friends in Missouri; they are not exactly regular church goers, but the in-laws of Southern Baptist pastors. They invited me along; I went out of good manners, thinking how different could it be to CofE. Obviously, I know nothing about Baptists, as I could barely mumble along to the hymns they were coming up with, and the tag team pastors took me back a bit. It was the adult sunday school that things got strange. This was about 30 years ago. I was promised the session would be on Revelations. Ooh, I thought this could be interesting, The Omen etc. The Preacher was a decent chap (of the cloth, rather than a lay preacher), and he was doing his best to interpret for all the adults about how literal Revelations was. There were arguments about who the 12 tribes of Israel were, and would the end times save all of them, or just the men and their families of "fighting age". Then it segued into pure paranoia; they were agitated by some proposal at the time to identify kids at high risk of kidnapping (someone thought this would be a barcode tattoo, them someone piped in that all barcodes have contain "666", so this was definite proof Bill Clinton was the antichrist. Google Earth had just appeared, and these fruit loops thought it was live images of their back gardens. The preacher at that point was struggling. Must be even worse now, with AI telling you what you want to hear.
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