Let me start by saying that I am in no way trying to be racist or anti-Semitic. I truly do not understand the mental gymnastics that these people are doing. I’ve been wondering for quite a while is how can America have so many white christian nationalists, and people who are completely freaking racist about EVERYONE not white christians, but all the while they seem to support Israel which is a Jewish state. Which goes completely against the white christian nationalist movement. How do these people reconciliate those two things? Are they just complete hypocrites in their beliefs?

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The other reason is the christian belief that the Rapture (and return of christ) cannot occur until the Jewish people return to isreal. It’s called christian zionism. Even as a child in the 90s in a roman catholic church we hear about how the jewish people were favored by god and we must support israel. I think the context of that was fundraising for settlement orgs.

    Just wanted to expand on this. According to Revelation, in the end times 125,000 Jews will convert to Christianity and the rest will be “destroyed”. No more Jews. So Jesus is the answer… to the Jewish question.

    Anyway, the Zionist/ Christian nationalist alliance is better explained by antisemitism than by Christian love, friendship, or solidarity.