jessica murray
jessica murray
1 second ago
that said, let's talk about israel and the evangelicals. let's understand this...
jessica murray
jessica murray
1 second ago
what it says in the christian bible - the revelation, which was written in greek, rather than aramaic - is that israel will be destroyed from the east. i always laugh at these christians that think russia means the east; in fact, russia is to the west of israel. rather, everybody living in israel at the time would have known that the east meant the persians, the ancestors of today's iranians.
jessica murray
jessica murray
1 second ago
so, what do the evangelicals actually want? do they want to support israel as a colonial state and have it take over the region and bomb the iranians? i mean, you could naively assign that to the generals (although larry aptly described why that's wrong), but what about the evangelicals, who you couldn't even get to vote at all until reagan?
jessica murray
jessica murray
1 second ago
what the evangelicals actually want is the second coming, the return of jesus, who will separate the worthy from the damned on judgement day. and, in order for that to happen, the temple must be destroyed, by the beast from the east. which is iran.
jessica murray
jessica murray
1 second ago
so, this idea of evangelical support for israel is sort of a double-edged sword, like jesus' wacky tongue, in the psychedelic visions that describe the prophecies - they want to ensure israel exists....so it can be destroyed. and, by who? by iran.
jessica murray
jessica murray
1 second ago
larry set this up fairly well when he talked about the first gulf war. nothing's really changed - if the americans were going to go into iran, they'd bring everybody except israel. pakistan, turkey, the saudis - but not israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLFX_3TKGJk