Why Do (some) Evangelicals Love Israel?

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I wonder if there is anything new or different in politics to write about. I mean, how many times can I write a story which just says that Trump’s an asshole?

Then I turn on the computer, go to Google News and invariably I find something that needs to be mentioned about what’s going on right now with the GOP. Between Rand Paul, George Santos, Marjorie Taylor Green, Mike Johnson and a couple of other dumb schmucks, there’s always something that one of them said which is worth a mention and a response.

Today, the award for dumbest or craziest or both goes to Mike Johnson, who stood up in front of a gathering of a group which calls itself Christians United for Israel and said the U.S. was under a ‘biblical admonition’ to help Israel in its anti-Arab fight.

This statement happens to be nothing more than a contemporary revision of the justification for the Crusades which sought to retake the Middle East from the ‘idolatry’ of Islam beginning in the 11th Century A.D.

This war-mongering nonsense has formed the basis of the white Evangelical support for Israel since the Christian United group was founded by John Hagee, a Texas televangelist who endorsed Wallce for President in 1968, an endorsement he has never seen fit to repudiate.