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Mike Huckabee said yesterday that all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates should be taken by Israel. That would involve a cleansing of hundreds of millions
by heyitsmedotjayb 8mo ago
Mike Huckabee said yesterday that all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates should be taken by Israel. That would involve a cleansing of hundreds of millions of people.
- herdst 8mo ago[flagged]
- themafia 8mo ago> He immediately qualified it Did he qualify it by indicating his claim is based on centuries old religious documents that are not agreed to by any majority of the Earth's population?
- heyitsmedotjayb 8mo agoIf they're not seeking to take it, then why are Zionist settlers currently crossing into Syria and taking it?
- halflife 8mo agoBecause they are crazy people? Not representing anyone in Israel?
- heyitsmedotjayb 8mo agoThey're supported and armed by the IDF
- halflife 8mo ago[flagged]
- heyitsmedotjayb 8mo agoIf they're such crazy violent outliers, why doesn't the Israeli government crack down and prosecute them? They could treat them the same way they treat a Palestinian who throws rocks, for example. But they don't.
- halflife 8mo agoThey are arrested by the military every time.
- ceejayoz 8mo ago> He immediately qualified it https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schrodingers+asshole https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schrodingers...
- georgemcbay 8mo agoHuckabee is a Christian Zionist. I'm sure he sees the death and displacement of millions as a small price to pay to bring about the Rapture in his lifetime.
- whatshisface 8mo agoThis is commonly misconstrued as christianity, but in christian tradition it would bring about the coming of the antichrist, massive persecutions globally, and armageddon.
- EnergyAmy 8mo agoChristians are ok with that, because they think they'll have been raptured already.
- adamtaylor_13 8mo agoPre-tribulation rapture is a 19th century invention by John Nelson Darby that most Christians worldwide have never held. The entire Orthodox and Catholic traditions reject it. Treating it as 'what Christians believe' is like treating Mormonism as mainstream Islam. It tells you more about the speaker's ignorance of the subject than about the subject itself.
- EnergyAmy 8mo agoTreating Catholics as "what Christians believe" is just as wrong. Pretribulational premillennialism is a popular position in mainstream Christianity in the US, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture's_Delight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture's_Delight It's all bullshit in the end, but I personally know many people that hold that view that consider themselves Christian. In fact, they think Catholics aren't Christian and are going to hell, because they worship idols. More specifically, when talking about US politicians like Mike Huckabee that spout off weird religious stuff like this, you can assume protestantism at least, if not fundamentalism and associated woo.
- thrance 8mo agoKeep in mind that these powerful men believe that Jewish people coming back to Israel is the first step of the Apocalypse, and the return of Christ. It is a death cult quite literally trying to bring about the end of the world, and they're ruling the world. Also, they are insanely antisemitic and believe most Jews will go to hell. https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/04/mike-huckabee-tries-get-apocalypse-started https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/04/mike-huckabee-trie...
- yonaguska 8mo ago> Also, they are insanely antisemitic and believe most Jews will go to hell. A good chunk of them are insanely pro-semitic as well, as they adopt the dual covenant belief that Jews will actually also go to heaven as well as Christians. I've actually never met anyone that adhered to the pro-zionist dispensationalist view that fully thought out the implied consequences, then proceeded to harbor a personal hatred of Jews. The vast majority of them love all things Jewish and hold them in high regard.
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- thrance 8mo agoI'd really like to get stats on how many evangelicals believe in this "dual covenant" vs how many follow scripture and legitimately believe that Jesus will send all Jews to hell to be tortured forever when he comes back.
- yonaguska 8mo agoI'd point out again, that most dispensationalists don't actually follow their interpretation to it's logical conclusion. And further, the view is not that all Jews will go to hell. It is that a large portion of Jews will suffer through the tribulation period, with most of them dying, but that the "remnant" will survive, all the remaining Jews will turn to follow Jesus, then rule the world under Jesus for 1000 years. And everyone will serve Israel. I'm annoyed that I spent so much time growing up learning this tbh. But I still find it crazy to call all of your average misguided adherents to this ideology antisemites. The death cult running things, sure. It's even more ridiculous to call the prosetylizers anti semites for trying to convert Jews, bc based on their world view, if they don't save as many Jews as they can, those Jews are going to suffer terribly instead of being raptured before the tribulation.
- woodruffw 8mo agoMike Huckabee is a clown who was more or less strategically plonked into Israel to feed soothing quotes to the settler minority. I think it'd be an error to assume that his particularly evil flavor of Christian eschatology reflects the political or military policies of Israel (which is saying a lot, since Israel's military policy is very clearly good at producing war crimes).
- heyitsmedotjayb 8mo agoHmm well I don't think it'd be an error to assume that his particularly evil flavor of Christian eschatology reflects the political or military policies of Israel.
- loeg 8mo agoHuckabee is some official spokesperson of the Israeli government? Or holds some other role in it?
- KoftaBob 8mo agoHe's the US Ambassador to Israel.
- loeg 8mo agoSo his comments represent the US, and don't represent Israel in any way?
- heyitsmedotjayb 8mo agoThat would be a good point if Netanyahu and Yair Lapid hadn't echoed his comments and expressed intent to create greater Israel..
- loeg 8mo agoSeems like it would have been more relevant just to quote those people instead.
- heyitsmedotjayb 8mo agothe goal posts never stop moving huh
- loeg 8mo agoThey've never moved.
- heyitsmedotjayb 8mo agoFirst you were upset that I assumed the American ambassador had any input on Israeli politics (a definitional truth), then you changed the subject and became upset that I didn't quote Netanyahu or Rabin themselves. That's how you moved the goal posts, inventing problems without confronting any of my points on their merits.