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Gov. Perry's True Believers

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shutdown8/13/2011 7:39:01 am PDT

re: #15 000G

I think the answer to the question “Should Jews be worried about Dominionist Christians coming to power?” is fairly obvious when you look at many centuries of Christian rule in Europe before the advent of secularism and how Jews were treated during that time.

Jews under Christian rule in the Middle Ages and forward were seen as Christ-killers and scapegoated for many ills, from social upheaval to the plague. Current Evangelicals see the Jews as a vehicle for their redemption, and the return of a Jews to the biblical land of Israel as a precondition for this redemption. Jews are not seen in a modern context and Israel is not considered a modern democratic nation. Both are viewed in a purely biblical context as tools to bring about the second coming of Christ.