“But God promised us this land 3000 years ago.”
Listen, I’m going to say this as respectfully and as clearly as I possibly can. I am speaking directly to the Jews, Christians, Zionists, Evangelical Christians, and any other group who is unwaveringly defending the state of Israel no matter how many people are killed, displaced, or buried in the process. If your support does not waver regardless of the body count, if no number of dead civilians changes your position, and if your ultimate justification for genocide and mass murder is that God promised the land thousands of years ago, then you are a religious extremist who is supporting a holy war.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s a certain Arabic word for “holy war” that Americans have been trained to fear and despise. We have spent decades condemning it, invading countries in the name of stopping it, pouring trillions into wars over it, building massive surveillance systems to prevent it, and branding anyone associated with it as a terrorist or a fanatic without hesitation.
When other groups use a holy book to justify killing, we don’t bend over backwards to explain it away. We call it extremism. We call it terrorism. We don’t say it’s complicated, and we definitely don’t say it’s part of God’s divine plan.
When Zionists say they support the state of Israel because the Bible says that land was promised to them, suddenly the standards change. Suddenly it’s about faith, or prophecy, or being on the “right side of history.”
When Muslims cite scripture to justify violence, we call them radicals.
When Western Christians cite scripture to justify violence, we call it prophecy. Why is it only extremism when it comes from Muslims?
If a single individual knocked on someone’s door, held a gun to a family, and told them they had five minutes to leave their home before it was bulldozed with them inside, no one would call that complex geopolitics. No one would say we need to understand the bigger picture.
We would call it what it is: violent, criminal, deranged behavior. We would say it’s a home invasion, destruction of property, armed robbery, and psychological terror.
But when that same thing is carried out by a state, backed by a military, wrapped in a flag, and justified as ‘self defense’ or divine promise, suddenly people start looking for Bible verses to explain why it’s necessary. And if you are supporting that because your church told you to, or because “the Bible told you to do so,” it’s simply religious extremism with better PR.
This isn’t about attacking Christians or Jews as a whole, and it’s not about hating America. It’s about having morals and values. If we are going to condemn religious violence in one context, we don’t get to baptize it in another and pretend it’s righteous. A Holy Book does not become a moral shield just because it belongs to you.
A lot of Americans were raised to believe that supporting Israel is automatically part of being a good Christian and a good patriot, and most people never stop to question where that connection came from or who benefits from it. But if your faith is the reason you are excusing mass death, displacement, and destruction, then at the very least you should be honest about what that is: terrorism.
And let’s be honest about something else:
Anything that requires the mass killing of civilians to sustain it does not carry God’s approval. You can wrap it in scripture, you can quote prophecy, you can preach it from a pulpit, but if it demands blood on that scale, it is not holy. It is not righteous. You are furthering Satan’s plan, not God’s.
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