[Osiri]

God I am so pathetic with only 22 posts on vB here considering I have been coming here forever.  To think 5 or so years and only 22 posts.

All of them in the last 2 days but still.  No more stalking in the shadows.  Now I am fully interactive.

[FireCrack]

Christian Zionist?

[mikhael]

Like Sandwich: ethnically jewish, christian by religion. I THINK. I might be wrong.

Wikipedia has this to say:

hristian Zionism is the belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy, and is a necessary precondition for the return of Jesus to reign on Earth. This belief is commonly though not exclusively associated with evangelical Protestants in the United States.

This belief is distinct from the general political belief that the Jews have a right to a national homeland in Israel (see Zionism). Christian Zionism, as a specifically theological belief, does not necessarily entail sympathy for the Jews as an ethnicity or for Judaism as a religion. It is common for Christian Zionists to emphasize the Jewish roots of Christianity, and even to promote Jewish practices and Hebrew terminology as part of Christian practice; however, Christian Zionists commonly believe that to fulfill prophecy, the Jews will accept Jesus as the Messiah, and that in the last days, all non-apostate Jews will practice a thoroughly Judaistic form of Christianity. For this reason, somewhat ironically, Christian Zionism fits one definition of anti-Semitism, as this term is presently used in modern interfaith relations.

Some Christians believe that the Jews remain the chosen people of God. This can reduce the historic hostility toward Jews by Christians, and can lead to objective support, such as when Jewish families such as the Franks, in the Netherlands, were hidden and supported by Christians during the Nazi persecutions.

[Kosh]

Gotta remember that there are plenty of Christians out there (myself included) that are not totally bonkers ultra far left/right winged (when you go that far there is little distinction really).

Maybe in Canada but not in the US.

I can't see a single party remaining in power and everything else disappearing,

I can. It's called "vote rigging". Do it in enough Senate elections and enough places in the presidential election, and the other party will disappear.

[Osiri]

Ahhhhh it keeps losing my posts.
 
Jist.

I am not Christian Fundamentalist and I am living it the south in TX.  

That proves you wrong.
Of course I could be stoned or strung up for saying that so...


Further the fundamentalist will always win because people who hate someone are motivated by thier collective hate.  


So we should all kiss our collective asses goodbye because we are talking people who wish to usher in the apocalypse.



Revelations

[FireCrack]

interesting...

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by mikhael
Like Sandwich: ethnically jewish, christian by religion. I THINK. I might be wrong.

You're wrong.

I would best be defined as a Messianic Jew, which is what you described. Christian Zionists, although their beliefs are pretty much the same, come from any and every background imaginable. Last night we had what they call a "March of the Nations", where they read a list of all the nations represented at the event, and had a representative of that antion come up and place a torch (or flag, in past years) up front. They had people from Hong Kong to Afganistan. The Finland contingent was pretty big, as usual (probably around a couple of hundred), but they were absolutely dwarfed by the Brazillians... I'd guess there were 700-800 of them, all being as awesomely energetic as Brazillians are wont to be.

[mikhael]

That's why I covered my ass with the "I might be wrong".

[Sandwich]