The Conservative Christian Right

[Dill]

(12-14-2017, 09:58 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I understand what you're saying, but what I am saying is that the theology and eschatology I am talking about in this thread is the same that led to the Left Behind series. It's more common than people think. In my original post I said I don't think that most people are consciously thinking about this, but that these sorts of policies are in the mind of their religious leaders who have a major impact on the voting patterns of their flocks.

Totally agree with you on this.  This is a movement with a lobby.

I think some of the doubters are construing your point too narrowly, as just people actually out there publicly pushing for the End Time.

The real voting/policy effect, however, comes from the millions who see Israel as favored by their God, and a nation to be defended.  http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/american-evangelicals-jerusalem/index.html.  And from their leaders who court conservative pols, with their millions of election-swaying vote blocks.

I doubt if any of the evangelicals referred to in the above article thinks he knows when the End Time will come, or thinks about the matter much at all when out of church.  But they do think US foreign policy should favor Israel. 

Still, whatever we do pro or con Israel, it will somehow be part of a larger pattern no human can actually know or control, as God leads us into the final battle with Satan. God often uses imperfect instruments --Trucoughmp cough cough! (scuze me) --to attain his ends. We just want to be found supporting the right side when the world's armies march to the plains of Armageddon.  And I'll add, just so my forum friends know, that won't be the side favoring gay marriage, feminism, and Palestinian right of return.

Palestinian Christians, of course, see the State of Israel in a very different light.
 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-jerusalem-recognition-israel-palestine-christians-muslims-outrage-protest-bethlehem-a8107071.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-jerusalem-recognition-israel-palestine-christians-muslims-outrage-protest-bethlehem-a8107071.html