For Evangelicals, supporting Israel is ‘God’s foreign policy’
Lines between church and state continue to blur.
For Evangelicals, supporting Israel is ‘God’s foreign policy’ - GNN.tv
Summary:
This is another gross example of problems with the supposed separation of church and state. Not to mention the unconditional support for war crimes committed by the Jewish state, justified by the “will of god.” The most frightening thing is the use of a faith, not fact based book as legitimate documentation of history, and a basis to set foreign policy.
“Despite all the spiritual shortcomings of the Jewish people,” Dr. Dobson said, “according to scripture - and those criticisms come not from Christians but from the Old Testament. Just look in Deuteronomy, where Jews are referred to as a stiff-necked and stubborn people - despite all of that, God has chosen to bless them as his people. God chose to bless Abraham and his seed not because they were a perfect people any more than the rest of the human family.”
People believe this, as if it was scientific fact!
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Republished from The New York Times (Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. and Janet L. Robinson)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - As Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon for a second week last July, the Rev. John Hagee of San Antonio arrived in Washington with 3,500 evangelicals for the first annual conference of his newly founded organization, Christians United For Israel.
At a dinner addressed by the Israeli ambassador, a handful of Republican senators and the chairman of the Republican Party, Mr. Hagee read greetings from President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and dispatched the crowd with a message for their representatives in Congress. Tell them “to let Israel do their job” of destroying the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, Mr. Hagee said.
He called the conflict “a battle between good and evil” and said support for Israel was “God’s foreign policy.”
The next day he took the same message to the White House.
Many conservative Christians say they believe that the president’s support for Israel fulfills a biblical injunction to protect the Jewish state, which some of them think will play a pivotal role in the second coming. Many on the left, in turn, fear that such theology may influence decisions the administration makes toward Israel and the Middle East.
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For Evangelicals, supporting Israel is ‘God’s foreign policy’ - GNN.tv
Summary:
This is another gross example of problems with the supposed separation of church and state. Not to mention the unconditional support for war crimes committed by the Jewish state, justified by the “will of god.” The most frightening thing is the use of a faith, not fact based book as legitimate documentation of history, and a basis to set foreign policy.
“Despite all the spiritual shortcomings of the Jewish people,” Dr. Dobson said, “according to scripture - and those criticisms come not from Christians but from the Old Testament. Just look in Deuteronomy, where Jews are referred to as a stiff-necked and stubborn people - despite all of that, God has chosen to bless them as his people. God chose to bless Abraham and his seed not because they were a perfect people any more than the rest of the human family.”
People believe this, as if it was scientific fact!
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Republished from The New York Times (Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. and Janet L. Robinson)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - As Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon for a second week last July, the Rev. John Hagee of San Antonio arrived in Washington with 3,500 evangelicals for the first annual conference of his newly founded organization, Christians United For Israel.
At a dinner addressed by the Israeli ambassador, a handful of Republican senators and the chairman of the Republican Party, Mr. Hagee read greetings from President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and dispatched the crowd with a message for their representatives in Congress. Tell them “to let Israel do their job” of destroying the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, Mr. Hagee said.
He called the conflict “a battle between good and evil” and said support for Israel was “God’s foreign policy.”
The next day he took the same message to the White House.
Many conservative Christians say they believe that the president’s support for Israel fulfills a biblical injunction to protect the Jewish state, which some of them think will play a pivotal role in the second coming. Many on the left, in turn, fear that such theology may influence decisions the administration makes toward Israel and the Middle East.
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