And then American Jews have accused American Christians of supporting Israel in hopes of bringing about Armageddon and the second coming.:) You can’t win for losing in these arguments, and it always appears hopeless.
That’s because some fundamentalist Christians indeed to believe in Israel’s role in bringing about Armageddon and the Last Days. Many of these Christians hide this belief in order to appear they are not supporting Israeli’s for this reason only, but for some fundamentalist types this is their belief. It’s like ImaNutJob over in Iran. He believes that a nuclear holocaust needs to be instituted in order to bring on the return of the 12th Iman, the Mahdi, who will make everyone on earth into a Muslim and then paradise will be achieved. Both have the same basic belief of bring on turmoil so that the coming of the Mahdi, or the second coming of Christ, can occur. I find both beliefs frightening.
I do too, and the absolute arrogance, the presumption that anyone can force the hand of God, or that he/she heard some weird voice and just knows that God has chosen he/she to do something terrible to jump start the End Times is incredible.
I personally don't hang out with any Christian fundies that have such unscriptural beliefs, and I do believe that their numbers are few because it's just not Biblical.