Onward Christian Zionists (Quasi-Fascist Evangelicals in Britain & America)

[KoKo]

Onward Christian Zionists
Rod Liddle
Wednesday, 7th January 2009

Rod Liddle on the crazed, quasi-fascist evangelicals in Britain and America who believe war in Gaza heralds the Second Coming of Christ

You may well know all about these people, as I say: the Christians who, for their own reasons, are more Zionist than even the Zionists. The latest bunch, however, are even more mental and include growing numbers of British evangelicals among their howling throng. It is no longer just the backwoods denizens of the mid-Appalachians who believe this stuff. Britain is on-board too these days — hallelujah!

The latest trip to Jerusalem was organised by a woman called Christine Darg, who operates out of Richmond, Virginia. Christine’s a star turn. She created the excellent Elvis Gospel Ministries, which preaches the word of God to semi-sentient people using the music of His chosen son, Elvis Presley. Back in 1998 she set up a webcam overlooking Jerusalem’s Golden Gate, pointed directly at the spot at which she wholly expected Jesus Christ would materialise in the very near future. Or, given the passage of time which has elapsed since His unexpected and lamentable failure to turn up, the not-that-near future. The webcam has been taken down recently because people other than Jesus keep appearing on it, mooning, larking around and being rude and stuff.

So far, then, so whacko. But Christine — a big peroxide blonde with one of those scary Jesus-loves-you smiles — has her finger in a number of pies, not all of them quite so harmless. She is the chief sponsor and supporter of an organisation based in Texas called Battalion of Deborah, for example. This magnificently named organisation, which sounds more like a landfill indie band than a Christian campaigning group, is devoted to kicking the Palestinians out of something it refers to as ‘greater Israel’. Or, as they put it on their website, ‘resettle Palestinian refugees to the lands of their Arab kinsmen’. By refugees they mean all of them, except maybe the Christian ones, if they shut up and behave themselves. The Battalion of Deborah is opposed to all possible peace settlements with the Palestinians, regardless or not of whether the settlements are drawn up by Israeli politicians. Israel is for the Jews, all of it, even the bits which are not within Israeli boundaries today. ‘The land of Israel is promised by God to the Jewish people,’ they state, with the certitude of those whose frontal lobes have been unduly tampered with.

more of an interesting read at..........
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3213251/onward-christian-zionists.thtml

[BR_Parkway]

1. If only the US press would write about our KKKrazy KKKristian Industry

this way - a lot less people would be so confused as to which are in it for the money and which are actually trying to follow Christ's teachings.

[ikojo]

2. That's why we must post this artifcle and others like

it to any email list we may belong and/or our facebook page. We must become the media and stop expecting the corporate media to report stuff like this.

I've forwarded it to three email lists today. I hope the members of those lists will forward it as well. I hope they read it as there is some good stuff in there such as fundie Christians wanting to kick the Palestinians off of what they call Greater Israel (a term I first heard in the early 80s at an AIPAC conference for college students. The student advocating Greater Israel was a very orthodox kid).

[KoKo]

3. It was surprising to see something like this taking root in Britain...

but given Tony Blair's weird alliance with George (the born again...and Tony the born again) ...I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I wonder what this all means for that centuries of alliance with Great Britain for America? Given that so much of our population is not part of the "original colonies" and their alliances, these days. :shrug:

[KoKo]

4. ..... it's still an interesting read.