US evangelicals drive Republican support for Israel

This feels to me one of the biggest unsaid, unrepeated, undistributed, unheard stories of our time. I think people on all sides tend to think that this is a story about eccentrics with strange or obsolete or irrelevant beliefs. There are some people of course who tend to regard religious beliefs and faiths as some kind of growth that sits on top of what are underlying necessities, material conditions etc. I think that with this particular belief-set, we should remember how pervasive, popular and fervent it is. Given its size (39% of Americans in the survey mentioned here), it’s not just a ‘belief’ but that it has power. Trump courted it and helped encourage some of this belief-system’s precepts. He needed them,. They needed him. So it is, the whole thing gets a step-up from any President in that situation but also because it appears to support Zionism and so is in effect itself supported by it. The reality is that this means that there are millions of people who think that Armageddon is not only coming but ain’t it great that it is?! If this was just the kind of belief or observance that people have in their homes – like putting up Christmas trees or some such – it wouldn’t matter. But, as I’ve tried to say, it’s intertwined with the electoral system in the US which in turn has a powerful and strong effect on what Presidents and US governments actually do. And yet, as I’ve said, it seems mostly out of sight or an irrelevance – which surely is a problem in itself.

The zeal of these so called religious people is sickening. It matters not to them that the IDF during its killing spree has murdered nearly five thousand children so far. What sort of god do they think they worship who agrees with them and their psychopathic hatred? If the USA ever thought of itself as a civilised nation, then people such as these, with their warped views are doing their best to change it.

I do not see in the rantings and ravings of these so-called Christians one single idea that Jesus as depicted in the Bible would recognise as having any connection with any of his teachings. Indeed, the evangelicals tend to stand in opposition to the basics of Christianity for a whole mass of historical reasons all connected with the notion of the supremacy of European culture over all others; and by a bizarre twist of logic I have yet to fathom, Jewish culture is perceived of as being part of this cultural hegemony despite the claim that its natural home is well outside Europe.
According to the evangelicals, corporate capitalism and militant colonialism are powerful expressions of Christian values, and none of what logically follows from that, in this case Israel’s destruction of Palestine, is of the slightest concern. How so many millions of people have come to accept the truth of their assertions is a mystery to me. There must be an explanation, but I don’t know it. So how can you argue sensibly with people whose own arguments are only pretending to any kind of rationality?