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08-11-2006, 08:03 AM
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What I find particularly repellent in the article is the position of the evangelical Christian Right. These are the people who use the following torturous logic, if I can pass along what I've heard from friends of my wife's great-uncle and grandfather, as well as her uncle, an evangelical missionary:
1) The world will end and all people will go to judgement when all Jews accept Christ.
2) All Jews do whatever Israel tells them to do, therefore
3) All Jews in Israel must accept Christ.
4) That will only happen after a Biblical-sized apocalyptic conflict involving the forces of Evil, led by MidEastern Arabs, and including Iran (which is not Arabic, but since when does this have anything to do with reality?).
So the Christian Right funds and supports everything any rightwing Israeli government does that leads to war with its neighbors. That's a lot of money going to kill a lot of people, and a lot of influence in Washington to promote the same.
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