>>2680698>Who created Christian Zionism? I have been studying the Bible recently and the topic and I cannot find anything in the New Testament that even hints at some future Jewish ethnic based kingdom. In fact zionism seems to contradict historic Christianity.I think American Protestantism has become a distinct religious expression different from traditional global Protestantism. Maybe the most distinct characteristic of that American Protestantism is its millenarian "waiting for the end times" attitude. There are armies of people who believe in an Evangelical End Times in their lifetime in this Sorelian, mythic sense. Like these people
genuinely think they'll live to see the earth open up, armies of angels and demons fighting each other, people disappearing, so on.
I cant stress the reality of this belief enough. Like there's a scene in the movie Red State by Kevin Smith where this murderous cult of evangelicals stop killing and immediately start losing their shit with joy when they think they hear the trumpets signaling Armageddon. If you talk to people who grew up in the background of a strict Seventh Day Adventist household about that scene, quite a few will say it viscerally, emotionally effected them, even after they've left their particular sect, because many have been trained from childhood to think "you'll hear those trumpets one day and the end times are coming."
The modern incarnation of Christian Zionism, functionally, is an attempt to hasten the end times. They've created a "checklist" of "prophecies" that they think must be fulfilled to usher in the end of days. One of those is that they imagine the modern nation-state of Israel
must exist and all the Jews
must go there and another temple
must be built, and then Jesus will come back to end the world. But they'll see it as a time to rejoice because all the sinners: the whores, the fags, the papists, the muslims, the buddhists, the atheists, the drug addicts, and all the others will be dragged down to the fiery pits of Hell while they get to ascend to Heaven.
What's especially funny is that Trump personally fulfills a lot of the criteria for "Antichrist" but because these Christians are a modern Pharisees and em
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