More to the point, it seems like a lot of Christians approach the Bible less as an invitation to moral and spiritual growth and more as a potboiler novel with absolute good guys and purely evil bad guys. That's fine if you're writing a Netflix miniseries based on it. Not so much if you're basing your and, in fact, the nation's politics on it.
Monday, September 22, 2025
Bible study
Mike Huckabee, America's current Ambassador to Israel, has been on his current track for a long time. A brief piece from 2016 has him justifying support of Israel's settlement policies with a quote of Genesis 12:3, reading, "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee." This is a promise made by God to Abraham, before even the ancient Kingdom of Israel has been founded. It's at least worth asking if it applies to all Abrahamic faiths.
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Mike Huckabee and Lindsay Graham are both Southern Baptists - an evangelical Christian sect that militates for the restoration of Jews to Palestine. Known as Christian Zionists the ideology they represent has a surprisingly long history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
By the time Israel was established as a recognized nation state the Christian Zionists ended up supporting the political Zionists who largely run the country today. There's been something of a misunderstanding about the religion of Judaism and the beliefs of Christian Zionism which certainly explains the ludicrous nature of the support Huckabee et al have given to Netanyahu's policies toward the Palestinians - boils down to 'wipe them out, rebuild the Temple, and Jesus will return'.
The willful ignorance of Christian Zionists is very annoying. Stranger still is that they don’t believe that Jewish people go to heaven - the mental gymnastics in thinking that the Jews are both God's chosen and protected people, but also they are all destined for hell because they don't accept Jesus is bizarre. Bad things happen to them because of their disobedience to God and lack of faith in Jesus.
Sheesh. It does sound like a plot for an unlimited series on Netflix.
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