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Texan City will only give you hurricane aid if you agree to not boycott Israel
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Lovely Salsa
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So the alt right doesnt have anything against jews? Also, pretty sure muslims are hated everywhere
entremet
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This is not alt right. Jeez. This is traditional American conservatism, which has a preference for Israel due to their interpretation of the Biblical apocalyptical writing. Not everything is alt right, guys.
gutter_trash
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Evangalical Baptists in a nut shell.
the Taliban of protestant Chrtisianity
the Taliban of protestant Chrtisianity
I'd imagine you learn what products are produced there first.
Don't they need Israel to exist for Jesus to come back and then kill and/or forcibly covert the Jewish people? So it's not out of love that the support is there, but out of a sick and twisted duty to see a prophecy fulfilled. I'm guessing Israel goes along with it because they don't believe in this stupidity anyways. It's like if the Mayans wanted to give you all this support and money because they think the end of the world would only happen when you become a nation and grow strong. I would take them to the cleaners myself.
Edit: This might be a small faction who believes this. It seems like the majority support Israel for geo-political reasons :/
Sho_Nuff82
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I think a judge would actually laugh at how illegal this is.
Lovely Salsa
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Out of curiousity, how many americans believe in this BS?
Earthbound64
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"Texan City will only give you hurricane aid if you agree to not boycott Israel"?
Why the clickbait?
Why not just say:
Dickinson, TX will only give you hurricane aid if you agree to not boycott Israel
It's literally an extra 3 spaces.
Why the clickbait?
Why not just say:
Dickinson, TX will only give you hurricane aid if you agree to not boycott Israel
It's literally an extra 3 spaces.
Probably not very many. Maybe 1 in 6 or something nominally believe it. It's something unique to specific branches of evangelicals.
I was thinking Evangelicals.
All the jews need to return to israel for the rapture to occur. They literally support israel because they want the world to end.
The people that believe it would be Evangelicals, but not all Evangelicals believe it or care much about it. Only millenarian leaning groups would be that concerned with it.
nobody really cares about the third temple prophecy. the GOP likes Israel because they oppress Muslims in ways we wish we could.
Israel tries very hard to present themselves as the beacon of Western society amidst a sea of dark-skinned barbarians, and the American right find this image very appealing.
Israel tries very hard to present themselves as the beacon of Western society amidst a sea of dark-skinned barbarians, and the American right find this image very appealing.
gutter_trash
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seperation between church and state also applies municippally,
this is a violation of that because it is religiously driven in the guise of politics
this is a violation of that because it is religiously driven in the guise of politics
The name of the city isn't some prize I was teasing. GAF isn't just the US and many more people are familiar with Texas rather than Dickinson and even the abbreviation TX.
This doesn't really have anything to do with separation of church and state though, even if there are religious ideas behind why certain policy is favored.
Earthbound64
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Even spelling out "Texas" would only have led to the title being 6 characters longer, and would have been far more descriptive, while losing nothing on the international front.
iamverificationimage
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It's to do with the Second Coming of Christ, the myth is that when the Jewish people return to Israel. The Temple Mount will be rebuilt and then destroyed which will then lead to the christian apocalypse.
Basically the republicans are supporting a doomsday cult that keeps them in power. If I could remember the book that delves into why these lunatics are into this believe, I'll post it here.
Less descriptive as only a tiny minority will know Dickinson is a city instead of some tiny burg.
SeaOfMadness
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Well you'd have to stop using Waze and USB flash drives to begin with 🤷*♂️
super-famicom
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Disgusting
Electric Eye
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Careful, you're gonna have gafers come in here and call you an anti-Semite and demand you explain yourself.
Boycotting products isn't at all similar to rejecting certain innovations
Thanks for explaining the breakdown between the different Evangelicals. I was under the impression that most Evangelicals held these same beliefs.
Dude what. Nobody knows what Dickinson is. Everybody knows what Texas is and what cities are.
mercenar1e
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the majority of congress and the senate.
It's probably the single least consistent religious group in the country in terms of theology and ideology.
TheContact
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the Bible says the Jews have to be in Israel in order for Jesus to come back. That's the only reason conservative Christians love Israel so much.
Hardly. You're missing the deep seated Islamophobia.
You're confusing the alt right and traditional evangelical conservatives.
One doesn't really care about religion and the other wants Jews in Israel to bring Jesus back or something stupid like that.
Messofanego
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Why?
TDLink
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Nothing Israel has done indicates they have any desire for conquest and expansion outside of their borders. In fact, the only land Israel has ever "conquered", the Sinai Peninsula, they gave back to Egypt less than a decade after doing so. And that only happened in the first place due to the 6 day war.
The only real problem is that Israel considers Palestine to be within their border while many other nations of the world do not. But other than anything to do with Palestine, Israel has not shown any expansionist Imperial ambition. They are a far cry from an Empire in any sense and there's no indication they want to go down that path.
The alt-right/Nazis are still a minority in America. Yeah, they hate jews... but they aren't representative of why most Americans support Israel (as some other people in this thread have already pointed out). The muslim thing, yeah unfortunately it's a worldwide problem. All I meant with that comment is that America at large does not have the same level of "Hate" for Jews as Europe. The Nazis and conspiracy theorists aside, Jews mostly pass for "white" now in America and aren't subject to widespread discrimination.
Vital Tundra
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That is literally, bat shit insane.
Wrong question.
How many of the GOP electorate...
Like Trump supporting the 8-10% of the electorate that are Nazis, he does so because he can't afford to lose them and win. So their issue are his issues.
This is how coalition politics works. Evengelicals are a HUGE voting block in the GOP.
CornBurrito
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Does the money from that go directly to Israel?
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I agree.. unfortunately Israel and the palestinian government is becoming more extreme and this is fucking it up for everyone.
Joel Was Right
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According to my understanding of the Bible, there are some known prerequisites for 2nd coming of Christ to occur, some of which has to do with the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state. In that sense, Evangelical Christians have an inherited interest in the politics of Israel. But the 2nd coming of Christ will see him able to convert a handful of Jews to Christianity; the rest will reject him, as it's prophesied. Therefore this "support" for Israel is largely self-interest from a theological point of view. The regular Evangelical Christian who is 'Pro-Israel' arguably has no interest in the nation beyond how it serves the Christian dogma.
The other element to this is the culture wars: anything progressives turn their nose to, Conservatives naturally embrace. Anti-war; climate change; socialism; Palestine.