There’s nothing to bring together a bunch of congressional “Christian” neofascists faster than the prospect of seriously pissing off their fire-and-brimstone Sky Daddy who has made helping the long-prophesied land of Israel central to their salvation.
They know that if they fail to help Israel, Jesus will NOT come for them, and will instead leave them to live in the overheated, overpopulated, polluted world of dwindling resources they are creating for the rest of us. “No Rapture for you!” Jesus will proclaim, and they will be left to fry with the rest of us godless plebes on a baking, forsaken earth even before they die and get to proper hell – if they do not help Israel.
I’m not even joking. That’s exactly how the religious nutters in Congress think, and why they are not worried about the same terrifying things the rest of us are. After decades of being pumped full of the holy nitrous of evangelical religious teachings, they are seriously convinced that helping Israel balances the rest of their deeds in God’s books, and this is why Israel-centric legislation always gets passed before anything else.
So this attack on Israel, with Congress in disarray and completely unable to render the usual assistance, is scaring the everlivin’ fuck out of some very nasty pseudo-religious people tonight.
Enough even to make them want to bring the trash back into the House after having already taken it out.
There’s nothing to bring together a bunch of congressional “Christian” neofascists faster than the prospect of seriously pissing off their fire-and-brimstone Sky Daddy who has made helping the long-prophesied land of Israel central to their salvation.
They know that if they fail to help Israel, Jesus will NOT come for them, and will instead leave them to live in the overheated, overpopulated, polluted world of dwindling resources they are creating for the rest of us. “No Rapture for you!” Jesus will proclaim, and they will be left to fry with the rest of us godless plebes on a baking, forsaken earth even before they die and get to proper hell – if they do not help Israel.
I’m not even joking. That’s exactly how the religious nutters in Congress think, and why they are not worried about the same terrifying things the rest of us are. After decades of being pumped full of the holy nitrous of evangelical religious teachings, they are seriously convinced that helping Israel balances the rest of their deeds in God’s books, and this is why Israel-centric legislation always gets passed before anything else.
So this attack on Israel, with Congress in disarray and completely unable to render the usual assistance, is scaring the everlivin’ fuck out of some very nasty pseudo-religious people tonight.
Enough even to make them want to bring the trash back into the House after having already taken it out.