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Way too many Americans are Biblical literalists and think there's some kind of cosmic destiny that requires the US to defend Israel.
by anigbrowl 1y ago
Way too many Americans are Biblical literalists and think there's some kind of cosmic destiny that requires the US to defend Israel.
- kcplate 1y agoThat might be and while the government certainly takes advantage of that sentiment to preserve its Israel policies, but the real reason the US government supports israel has more to do with the general region being oil rich and having a reliable and strong nuclear secular ally in the region.
- cbfrench 1y agoThey’re dispensationalists, though. Actual biblical literalists would probably have a hard time reconciling St. Paul with this idea that the modern nation-state of Israel has anything at all to do with the Israel of either the Old or New Testaments.
- IAmBroom 1y agoIt is literally impossible to state objectively what "actual biblical literalists" would believe, as the document is massive, self-contradictory, and written with heavy use of allegory and metaphor. It's not Kearney & Ritchie.
- cbfrench 1y agoThis is true. I’m sure most dispensationalists consider themselves “literalists” even though they require charts upon charts to demonstrate how their “literalism” isn’t just creative interpretation. And besides, “literalism” is just a modern framework; none of the Church fathers (or most interpreters of Scripture for over 1900 years) were literalists in the sense it’s meant today. And heck, read the Sermon on the Mount to see that Jesus himself probably wouldn’t have qualified as a “literalist” lol.
- jalapeno_a 1y agoThe MIC loves expensive constant un-winnable wars and Israel is the devil that provides them. I’m very glad the youth oppose Israel so this nightmare can end in a few generations, hopefully before a million more people die.