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The Christian Right, dispensational premillennialism, and Antisemitism
Dayton Jewish Observer ^ | 2023 | William Trollinger

Posted on 04/09/2026 7:26:07 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

• John Hagee: "Hitler was a “hunter” who God sent to convince “the Jewish people…to come back to Israel.”

• Tim LaHaye: "The Jews will be “destroyed by the Antichrist in the time of the seven years of tribulation; a potential dictator (is) waiting in the wings somewhere in Europe who will make Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin look like choirboys.”

• Jerry Falwell: "The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.” According to biblical prophecy, there will soon be an Israel-inspired “nuclear holocaust,” a holocaust that will coincide with Christ’s return to Earth: “WHAT A DAY THAT WILL BE!”

Antisemitism has been present in American fundamentalism from the movement’s beginnings in 1919. For example, and as I document in God’s Empire, William Bell Riley – in many ways the father of the American fundamentalist movement – was a passionate promoter of dispensational premillennialism....

Convinced that there was a global Jewish conspiracy seeking to oppress the gentile masses, in the 1930s Riley – who repeatedly claimed he was not an antisemite – was a fan of Adolf Hitler, whom he praised for rescuing Germany from the Jewish-Communist menace.

Take, for example, Mike Elliott. A graduate of Pensacola Bible Institute, Elliott started the Anchor Baptist Church here in Dayton

“The Jews hate us. You do know that, right?…Israel is what it is today because the United States got involved in helping them get there, but they just hate us for some reason.”

In a follow-up interview with The Observer, Elliott expressed frustration: “I just don’t understand that. That’s insane. I do not hate Jews. I love the Jewish nation.”

...Right. And this is frightening. Contra Mike Elliott, one can “love the Jewish nation” and be an antisemite...

(Excerpt) Read more at daytonjewishobserver.org ...


TOPICS: History; Religion & Politics; Theology
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; christianright; constanttrolling; dispensationalism; falwell; hagee; lahaye; rapture; troll; trolling; trollinger

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one can “love the Jewish nation” and be an antisemite...
1 posted on 04/09/2026 7:26:07 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It’s weird.

In my physical life, I know lots of great Christians, and to a man they are fine with me being Jewish and support Israel generally.

I also know a few hundred Jews, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a cross word about Christianity or Christians from any of them. Except, we know that certain sects seem to obligate their adherents to try to convert you, like my several friends who are Mormon test you out and when they experience a polite “No Thank You, I’m strong in my faith”, they leave you alone.

So my real world life is extremely comfortable and copacetic.

Then I get to FR, and this wild Jew hate fills every page! Dozens of posters can’t be motivated to condemn hundreds of thousands of proactive muslim murders of their Christian brethren in Nigeria or Sudan, but go wild condemning Jews when (for example among myriad) a muslim murders a Christian in Syria and a plausibly blamable Jew is standing a few hundred miles away.

Are we a magnet for whackos?


2 posted on 04/09/2026 7:41:09 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Not all 2,000,000,000 muslims want to murder me. But 200,000,000 probably do.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Both Jew and Gentile are required to be born again. There is no difference. Even the OT prophets testify to that.

His church is to be witnesses of Christ in word and deed. Pray for Israel, yes. But neither Jesus nor his apostles command that the church build or help to build a third temple.


3 posted on 04/09/2026 7:45:13 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

You’re seeing a paid for psyop campaign to disrupt maga. They did the same thing during the tea party.


4 posted on 04/09/2026 7:46:19 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Uncle Miltie

it’s bizarre


5 posted on 04/09/2026 7:46:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Convinced that there was a global Jewish conspiracy seeking to oppress the gentile masses, in the 1930s Riley – who repeatedly claimed he was not an antisemite – was a fan of Adolf Hitler, whom he praised for rescuing Germany from the Jewish-Communist menace.

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.filthy unsupported slander.

A bald face lie.

Your Jew hate has grown to include all doctrinally correct Christians.

You have the spirit of an antichrist.


6 posted on 04/09/2026 7:47:21 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Skywise

👍👍


7 posted on 04/09/2026 7:47:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If you ever take up fishing, might I suggest trolling?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvAEp0e0Qy8&list=RDWvAEp0e0Qy8&start_radio=1


8 posted on 04/09/2026 7:48:50 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels ("And We Know - all things work for good to them who love God, called according to his purposes." )
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To: Uncle Miltie

I think it is on the rise esp. for those with TDS also
during an election year or the younger pubicly schooled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s&list=RDgkTb9GP9lVI&index=2


9 posted on 04/09/2026 7:51:45 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels ("And We Know - all things work for good to them who love God, called according to his purposes." )
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To: cuz1961

And I’m sure your other quotations are equally corrupted and manufactured for your hateful spin narrative.


10 posted on 04/09/2026 7:51:51 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: BrandtMichaels

Yep, never know what you’ll catch while trolling.


11 posted on 04/09/2026 7:52:04 AM PDT by deport
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To: Uncle Miltie

Jeremiah 24:9 (NKJV): “I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.”
Jeremiah 29:18: “And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth—to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them.”
Deuteronomy 28:37: “And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead you.”


12 posted on 04/09/2026 7:57:14 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: Uncle Miltie
Are we a magnet for whackos?

Sure seems that way. The internet in general is definitely a magnet for whackos.

13 posted on 04/09/2026 7:59:48 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Thank you, Lord. Every day. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

there are verses in the Scriptures that people love to put on little magnets on their refrigerators. Nobody ever puts Jeremiah on the refrigerator.


14 posted on 04/09/2026 8:02:21 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: Skywise; Bikkuri

You’re seeing a paid for psyop campaign to disrupt maga. They did the same thing during the tea party.


Agree.

Sad to see this in such force, on this conservative site.


15 posted on 04/09/2026 8:04:52 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Which should one prefer as allies?

Those who believe you are in danger of Hell (even if they are wrong)?
Or those in a hurry to send you there?

That is the choice they are facing.

16 posted on 04/09/2026 8:05:01 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Uncle Miltie

They are whackos or you can call them Libertarian. Same same


17 posted on 04/09/2026 8:06:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Then I get to FR, and this wild Jew hate fills every page!
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this post was not a jew hate post. rather it was a jew accusing americans of jew hate and reaching back into the early 20th century to do so when america was an entirely different country,

I read these sorts of posts in today’s context as an exhortation to finish the job in Iran.


18 posted on 04/09/2026 8:06:47 AM PDT by ckilmer (`61)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

What about the opposite?


19 posted on 04/09/2026 8:07:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: MarlonRando

Be sure to note what is going to happen
at Armageddon when Jesus Christ Returns

Joel 3:1-2
21st Century King James Version

3 “For behold, in those days and in that time, when I shall bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joel%203%3A1-2&version=KJ21


20 posted on 04/09/2026 8:07:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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