Exactly WHY Does the Christian Coalition Support Israel Right or Wrong?

[McCamy Taylor]

I can understand the Christian Coalition having a "My country, right or wrong" attitude. Well, actually, I can't, since Jesus said "Render unto Caesar etc..." and so supposedly a church should be supporting Christian values first and political values second. But hey, they are all Americans and they want to be patriotic, so it is hard to fault that.

However, the members of the Christian Coalition do not live in Israel, so I have a hard time understanding why everything that Israel does--like blowing up apartment building with families inside because somewhere in the vicinity there might be some terrorists and it is easier to just blow everything up than to actually search for the terrorists--must be right, because it is Israel doing it. And, everything that Palestinians do is wrong, because Israel says so.

I have an especially hard time understanding how members of the 700 Club and other fundie groups get starry eyed about people like this:

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/18/hebron-day-06/

"A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by a Jewish extremist in Hebron today. Earlier the same day at least five Palestinians, including a 3-year-old child, were injured by the settler-supporting extremists, who rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents. Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home were also attacked. The Israeli army, which was intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene to stop the attacks.

"Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers (HRWs) to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 Jewish extremists in small groups. They started chanting in Hebrew “We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too!” — a refrain the settlers had been repeating to internationals in Tel Rumeida all day."

[me b zola]

1. The christian coalition is a creation of the gop

They were created by politicos to serve a political agenda...the religion bs is just subterfuge.

[mitchtv]

2. It's easy

Don't think. Believe what you're told

[lvx35]

3. Because it justifies end times prophecies.

in which Israel and all jews are consumed in a great conflaguration and members of the religious right are elevated to heaven unharmed.

[AZBlue]

5. Exactly. They think of Israelites as the "chosen people" even though they don't believe in Jesus &

therefore won't be going to heaven.

(Yeah, I don't know, it doesn't make sense to me either. But, this is the way an Evangelical acquaintance of mine explained it to me.)

[Selatius]

4. Biblical prophesy

One precondition to the return of Christ is that the Jews have to control the holy land. When he returns, all Jews who don't convert will be wiped out. And then there's that whole battle of Armageddon between good and evil and so on and so forth.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. So, the Israelis are not the "good guys" they are just the placeholders?

[ruiner4u]

7. they are the catalyst

[McCamy Taylor]

8. damn, that is scary!

[BlooInBloo]

9. Congratulations. You have now successfully completed Religion 101!

lol!

[TlalocW]

10. In their mind, Israel needs to exist

So Jesus can come wipe it off the map and show those Jews what-for before the "christians" all ascend into Heaven.

TlalocW