see also (on dispensationalism): http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12909
and even more fun:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1000/1000_01.asp
fundy anti-catholicism and antisemitism are pretty much of a piece.
j
On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 08:41 AM, Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
> A comment from Lenni Brenner --
>
>
> "These stats have the additional value of highlighting the depravity
> of the generality of American polls. They hand over $3 billion/year to
> Israel, when the majority of US Jews don't give a penny to Zionism in
> their lives. Proverbially, a fanatic is 'more Catholic than the
> Pope.' Lets update that: An American fanatic is a politician running
> for office - anyone, Jewish, white, black, cat, dog, rat or snake -
> anywhere, even in the Aleutians - hustling Jewish campaign
> contributions, by yelling for Sharon, is more Zionist than the Jews."
>
> It bears repeating that the core mass base of support for Zionism in the
> United States lies in evangelical and fundamentalist Protestantism.
> These
> groups once were anti-Jewish, at a time when Jews symbolized, for
> them, a
> number of bad things. The founding of Israel, however, altered the
> terms of
> their symbolic thinking. Now they see it as the fulfillment of
> prophecy, and
> think it is a step towards Christ's second coming.
>
> Jews as people remain an abstraction for this body of opinion, just as
> they
> were when they were scapegoats. And if, for some reason, they got the
> idea
> in their heads that Jesus really had come back, and if, as seems
> probable,
> the majority of Jews weren't impressed with him ... why then,
> evangelicals
> would become anti-Semites again.
>
> Imagine what would happen if some convincing semblance of Jesus
> appeared in,
> let us say, Atlanta. Let us imagine this person to be an insane person
> of
> Jewish origin who believed himself to be the messiah. And imagine if his
> relatives tried to have him institutionalized .... The wise Reverend
> Jerry
> Fallwell reminded us a few years ago that the Antichrist will be a Jew.
> What
> else would he be, in that scheme of thinking? Imagine having to be the
> Jewish psychiatrist signing Jesus into the proper hospital ...
>
> Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
>
>