This is Free Republic, a site devoted mainly to current events and how there are interpreted politically, socially, and religiously. There are many other site that deal with purely theological issues where various positions are presented and analyzed.
Since dispensationalism today is, by its very nature, a creature of current events, it lends itself to this sort of critique in this type of forum.
That certainly is the main intent of my posts, to see the folly in the logical outworking of the dispensational system as it is commonly found in American evangelical circles.
The religion forum on Free Republic is not wedded to current events, although it certainly has its connection.
It is also a place on which one can post theological overviews of lots of things. And that has happened on wide-ranging subjects.
If you have a link to a brief synopsis of preterism, would you mind sharing it? I would gladly post it.
Maybe so, but your threads all have a common denominator that evangelical support for Israel somehow is motivated by a hope that the Jews will return to the land so that God can wipe out more Jews when he kills off 2/3 of them.
If that point is not made in the article itself it is made within a few posts of the time the article is posted.
This article is particularly eggregious. Within a few sentences we get this blurb: "In the debate, I wanted Tommy to explain how a belief in Israel’s glorious future results in the slaughter of two-thirds of the Jews living at the time the Great Tribulation nears the end of its seven-year run."
It is as if the author is mocking the prophecy of God and attempting to use the words of God in the bible as a tool to make Tommy Ice look cruel, when in fact the author is really attempting to make God look cruel. That is pathetic.
The author of this article and the authors of many of the articles you post believe the worst of those of us who support Israel's right to exist and who believe that God is bringing the Jews back to the land for his own purposes.
The fact of the matter is that regardless of whether the Jews believe in Christ or not, we are told by God that if we curse them we shall be cursed and if we bless them we shall be blessed.
If for no other reason than that we should be supporting Israel whether we are dispensationalists or not. As Bible believers we ought to take the promises of God seriously and in this case those who do not take them seriously are in danger of being cursed by God.