I'm convinced that the hard pro-Israel turn that US evangelicals made after 9/11 is based on racist hatred of brown Muslim people. That, and a lot of money spent by Sheldon Adelson and co.
I mean, evangelicals had also been sorta pro Israel, but as someone who lived in that world pre-9/11, it wasn't anything close to what it is now IMO.
A huge part of it is that Evangelicals believe when all the Jews return to Jerusalem it will trigger their weird version of the Apocalypse. They don't care about Jewish people or Israel, they're just the means to an end. Literally the end of the world, in this case.
I'm convinced that the hard pro-Israel turn that US evangelicals made after 9/11 is based on racist hatred of brown Muslim people. That, and a lot of money spent by Sheldon Adelson and co.
I mean, evangelicals had also been sorta pro Israel, but as someone who lived in that world pre-9/11, it wasn't anything close to what it is now IMO.
They got real hyped to do that.
A huge part of it is that Evangelicals believe when all the Jews return to Jerusalem it will trigger their weird version of the Apocalypse. They don't care about Jewish people or Israel, they're just the means to an end. Literally the end of the world, in this case.