re: #133 Our Precious Bodily Fluids

I may or may not need a tinfoil hat adjustment in this area, but I’ve long thought that the reason for the GOP’s unquestioning support of Israel has to do with End-Times / Second Coming fantasies.

From Kragar’s link in 111:

Reading, Writing & Religion II
Texas Public School Bible Courses in 2011 – 12

The deicide motif is explicit in an essay
distributed to students in Dalhart ISD. A
handout taken from raptureready.com attempts to
incorporate Daniel 9:24-27 into detailed calculations
about history’s steady progression towards the
end of the age. “No prophecy in all of Scripture is
more critical to our understanding of the end times
than these four verses,” according to the article.
Expounding on Daniel’s 9:26’s reference to the
“messiah” being “cut off,” it explains:

It wasn’t the killing the Messiah that put the
Jews at odds with God. After all He came to
die for them. No. It’s that in killing Him, they
refused to let his death pay for their sins so He
could save them. This had the effect of making
His death meaningless to them. That’s what
severed the relationship.

The writer attributes the destruction of Jerusalem
and the Jewish temple by the Romans and the
scattering of Jews around the world as a result
of Jesus’ crucifixion but assures that when Jesus
establishes his kingdom on earth, “Israel will finally
have her Kingdom back and will live in peace with
God in her midst forever.”

Section 10, 46