"Hitler's only kidding about the antisemitism" New York Times, 1922

[bibliophile20]

@Shy1

Thank you! Yes, those were the ones I was referring to. As to how the dominionists see Israel/Jews, I haven’t looked into that. I’m curious to know.

@bibliophile20

I have been told, to my face, by a bright-eyed Baptist missionary, that it is my God-Given Duty to Return To The Land Of Israel (I’ve never been there) so that, when the Children Of Israel are Gathered (you could hear the Capital Letters), we could perish and Usher In The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ. And he was jealous, because I’d be at Jesus’s side to escort him down from heaven, and he wouldn’t. Needless to say, I backed away slowly and carefully. But it was distinctly creepy to meet someone whose worldview insisted that my sole purpose in life is to die to bring about the return of his zombie god. So I watch the Evangelical takeover of the Republican Party and shiver in fear, because I know what my life means to them.

@Ryuthrowsstuff

It certainly isn’t all Christians. But it surprising you haven’t heard of the concept before. Its central to certain kinds of christian eschatology; and deeply, deeply embedded in the whole fundamentalist/evangelical wing of the faith. Shit it was a massive plot point in the Left Behind series that got so weirdly popular a decade back. And its been one of the key reasons behind the Religious Right and the GOP’s unending, uncritical support for Isreal. Isreal must remain a nation. Jews must return to Isreal. And Isreal must be empowered as a specifically Orthodox Jewish religious state so they can re-build the Temple in Jerusalem. And that Temple must then be destroyed. Which is what triggers the end times. Its all very weird, but its pretty pervasive. Even good ol’ G Dubs supposedly bought into. And numerous Congressmen have mentioned it pretty openly over the past couple decades.

@bibliophile20

Exactly. The Evangelical wing doesn’t support Israel because they like Jews. They hate us on a level usually reserved for balky machines that are too expensive to therapeutically smash–which is all we are to them. Things. Objects. Ones that they feel that, if they do the right actions to, will have the desired output of the return of their zombie god. But not people, or humans, and certainly not sentient, free-willed individuals. Just an object in a category, an object whose actions are not conforming with their desires and thus must be corrected.

And they have enough pull and influence in the US to get Dubya to speak at one of their events three years ago.