“...for either tribal reasons or due to some deranged Biblical interpretation.”
You got that right. I was listening to Clay and Buck yesterday and one of them was reading a piece about how we are required by God to support Israel if we want to be blessed by God — by sending money to some organization.
I think we should probably support Israel to some extent, but blackmailing people by holding the wrath of God over them by quoting a verse from Genesis is demented. Bibi is not Abraham.
“I think we should probably support Israel to some extent, but blackmailing people by holding the wrath of God over them by quoting a verse from Genesis is demented.”
I agree. I’m a Baptist and (like many Baptists) support Israel’s existence, but it is a very secular state.
I think the outcome of the 1948 & 1967 wars indicate God wants it there, but I want it there because A) 6 million Jews were killed in Europe and B) a million Jews were forced to leave Arab lands they had lived in for over 2500 years - from 900K in Arab lands to under 8K now, IIRC.
The Jews in Israel have no where else to go and their opponents still want to kill them all...