It is un-Christian for “Christian” Zionists to support Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.
Tom DiLorenzo, the president of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute and author of numerous books, including The Real Lincoln, has an article today at LewRockwell.com that I must recommend. It is titled “Christian Worship of the False God of Politics“.
It includes these appropriate observations about Christian support for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians:
Millions of American “evangelical” Christians have been indoctrinated in the idea that they must be worshipful of Israeli politicians and bureaucrats. This is so because they are taught by preachers like John Hagee that the Bible says that God will bless those who bless the nation of Abraham. The absurdity of it all is that pop religionists like Hagee falsely conflate the Israel of the Bible with today’s politicians and bureaucrats of the seventy-six-year-old government of the country of Israel. The two have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Israel’s politicians can be just as sleazy, immoral, corrupt, criminal, and murderous as any politicians anywhere. Hence the spectacle of American evangelical Christians cheerleading the killing of fellow Christians in Gaza by the Israeli military….
What exactly are evangelical Christians worshipping when they so slavishly worship the government of Israel? They are not worshipping God or Godliness – just the opposite. They are worshipping the kind of people described by George Washington in his Farewell Address as “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men.” Ordinary politicians, in other words.
When politicians of any country use the coercive powers of the state to confiscate one person’s property, give some of it to political supporters, and keep some for themselves they are engaging in theft. Calling it “democracy,” “majority rule,” or “the only democracy in the Middle East” does not make it any less sinful.
DiLorenzo appropriately goes on to explain how the worship of Israel or any other state is un-Christian.
Read the full article at LewRockwell.com.
Among Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians that many Christians support is Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. DiLorenzo’s observations reinforce the point I made in my recent post “To Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict, End American Ignorance“.
As explained in the post, “To end the Israel-Palestine conflict will require correcting Americans’ twisted perceptions — especially among Christian Zionists.”
The post also contains links to additional past content of mine elaborating on the problem of Christian Zionism and illuminating why we if we hope to end the Israel-Palestine conflict, we need to get through to Christians whose religious devotion to the state of Israel blinds them to reality.
Explore this problem more here 👇:
Update: After publishing this post, I also learned that an article by Lew Rockwell was published yesterday by the Mises Institute titled “Beware of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act“.
As Rockwell rightly points out, “We need to ask ourselves, why the Act has been passed at the present time. The answer is obvious. It is to block all criticism of Israel. And Israel should be criticized, because of the genocidal policy it is following in Gaza.”