My husband looking at the estuary at sunset. Estuaries are places in between, not quite ocean, not quite river. I get a sense right now that the world is sitting in a place that is not quite one thing or the other, just like an estuary.
These last few days have been rather hard to stomach on many different levels. It has some horrific echos for me of our time living in a high demand religious organization all those years ago. My old church was all in for Israel.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, or you do like I do many times which is take a break from the news, Israel has been in the news since Friday. Hamas fired a large number of rockets into Israel. They’ve also taken hostages and barged into a music festival to kill the festival goers. It’s an evolving situation that is beyond awful and tragic. Israel has declared war on Hamas.
Let me ask you a question, how can you declare war on a group, not on a nation? I’m not sure. I pray for peace in this situation, but feel this is likely to spin out to something monstrous in pretty short order. Israel has already started a militaristic response.
But I’m not here to bemoan war, or demand vengeance. It’s a complex situation that’s been building alongside the settlements on the West Bank for many years now. I’m not smart enough to design strategies for either side. I just wish for a peaceful solution like the old hippie I am.
What is the part zinging me hard is renewed realization what’s driving the Evangelical Christianity view point that supports Israel at all costs, no matter what. No matter if Israel may brought this on themselves by refusing to invest in a two state solution of the Camp David Accords of Jimmy Carter’s presidential administration. None of that matters to the good Evangelicals baying out jingoistic slogans.
So what’s behind this Evangelical love for Israel? Trust me when I tell you its something so wrong and hateful. The Evangelical love of Israel is rooted in one thing and one thing only, bringing about the end of the world so that Jesus will return. It’s as simple as that. They don’t love Israelis or Jews, no not at all, they seek to use the Jews as a tool to bring our savior back before time. That sickens me. Their love is never just simply love for others just because everyone is made in the image of God. What they believe in their death cult stupidity is the exact opposite of their words.
In the meantime innocent people on all sides die, for a ridiculous theological point not much rooted in the Jesus they claim to follow.
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