“I find that the reflex support of the modern nation of Israel amongst professing Christians consistently ignores the vile attitude towards Jesus Christ that is institutionalized in that modern culture and government.”
I don’t think that is true. You are correct the government is secular, but the only place Christians are safe (and, indeed, prosper) in the ME is Israel. Israel, alone among the nations, was instrumental in helping Coptic Christians flee Egypt, too.
Hi jb.
Thanks for checking in.
That’s what the powers that be tell us conservative Christian rank-and-file all the time.
But... Americans and Europeans are running all over the middle east making money.
Tons of it.
If we don’t testify to the Gospel message, and go along to get along, we’re fine.
Except in the odd hostage crisis. But statistically, that’s a pretty low probability.
So... American Christians are supposed to politically support Israel no matter what the situation, because if we spread the Gospel in Israel we’re just intimidated and made to stop, whereas in Islamic countries we would be arrested and judicially imprisoned or killed.
(seems to me the bar is kind of low if the basis of being national allies is... we don’t kill your citizens when they visit our country).
We aren’t supposed to testify to the Gospel anywhere in the ME.
The entire ME wants to be a no-Christ zone.
Now, can we talk about socialism and communism ? 2 million Jews in New York City, and I can’t find any that aren’t socialists. Even the wealthy seem to vote Democrat... if not Socialist / Communist.
And if they are “Republican”... they seem to either support the homosexual agenda or at least not oppose it.
Where are all those conservatives ?! Help me find those conservatives !