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Pompeo agrees it's possible God raised Trump to protect Israel from Iranian aggression
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/22/politics/mike-pompeo-donald-trump-israel-golan-heights/index.html
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)Maybe someone should build an ark...
Thunderbeast
(3,424 posts)We must remove the American Taliban as soon as possible.
woodsprite
(11,931 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This has been an unholy alliance for four decades, American evangelicals and conservative Israelis. Israelis are grateful for the unwavering support they've received from evangelicals, and have largely been able to ignore or put aside the main reason for that support: evangelicals want them to convert to Christianity, specifically dominionist, eschatological, evangelical, biblical literalist Christianity. This is supposed to be a public demonstration of the power of God, no less legendary than the Exodus from Egypt under Moses. The whole world will be amazed and fall in line with this narrow sect of Christendom.
Conservatives in Israel have gladly accepted the support of these yahoos, which comes in many forms and dominates key areas of the United States' relationship with Israel. Any American criticism of Israeli policy has to first clear the tall hurdle posed by the evangelicals, and an American critic (particularly liberal critics) soon finds himself or herself labeled anti-semitic, and in the face of that will often back down or soften the criticism to the point of irrelevance.
But the evangelicals won't wait forever for God to miracle those Israelis into their churches. Their public comments are getting more pointed, and conservative Israelis are edging closer to the day when they will have to either buckle to evangelical pressure or tell them to fetch off. Neither alternative is very savory, and neither of them will end well for those conservative Israelis.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)0rganism
(23,975 posts)because he knows the time is short
let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty six (the weight of Donald Trump in pounds)
moondust
(20,016 posts)C'mon up here, Mike, and pick up your prize! Mmmm, can ya smell it?!!
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)northoftheborder
(7,575 posts)beyond scary and anxiety inducing
Blue1963
(77 posts)but I would hope that a supreme being might send a less racist, less mentally incapacitated vessel to do his good works.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Have you read the Bible? It's full of stories in which God put men in positions of power and leadership who did much, much worse things than Trump has ever done. Some of those things, like genocide, were done on God's direct orders.