Some time ago, I wrote a piece about the batshit idiocy of Christian zionists1, which I summarise here. Christian Zionism is theological and political movement that supports the return of the Jewish diaspora to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, based on readings of parts of the bible that suggest that Palestine is a sacred land promised to the Jews by God. Even more bizarre is that Christian Zionists believe that by blessing and supporting the Jewish people and the modern state of Israel, they themselves will be blessed by God. The batshit extension of this is as follows. A significant driving force behind the rise of early christian zionism in the 19th century and subsequently, is the concept of dispensationalism. Dispensationalists believe that there was a succession of eras of God’s interactions with humanity, and that the final dispensation, the ‘end-time’ is nigh (again!). They hold that the return of the Jews to Palestine is one of the prophecies that needs to be fulfilled in order for the second coming of Jesus to occur1.
These fruitcakes have been saying that the ‘end time’ is nigh for the best part of two thousand years and when it doesn’t happen on their selected date, they shrug their shoulders and suggest another date2. This sort of idiocy continues.
The fact that many tens or hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered by Israel in the last couple of years in the Gaza genocide, doesn’t seem to enter into the consciousness of these Christian nutters. This is astonishing if only from a human perspective. It is doubly disturbing given that they profess to follow someone who is supposed to have said love your fellow man.
The US Ambassador to Israel, former Baptist minister Mike Huckabee, has opened his mouth before putting his brain into gear, in an interview with the former Faux News jaw flapper Tucker Carlson. During their over two-hour interview, Carlson repeatedly insinuated that Huckabee was more invested in defending the interests of Israel than those of the country he represents in Israel. Huckabee is a prominent Christian Zionist who believes that Israel has a ‘biblical right’ to the territory thatits government and its murderous ‘settlers’ claim and therefore deserves the military and monetary aid it receives from the US. In one extraordinary moment during the interview, Carlson asked Huckabee if Israel was entitled, according to a literal interpretation of biblical scripture, to claim much of the modern Middle East. Huckabee said “It would be fine if they took it all”, but subsequently backtracked, arguing that Carlson’s question was irrelevant because Israel had no such intentions3.
It is difficult to believe that Israel doesn’t have such intentions, as it has continued the destruction of Gaza (the ceasefire was just another lie), has attacked Palestinians in the West Bank and is now invading southern Lebanon4.
In addition to all this, Netanyahu’s patsy, the Mango Paedo has just ordered the US armed forces to attack Iran in cahoots with Israel and they have killed the dictator Khamenei, along with over 100 schoolgirls, as a school was demolished in the initial round of attacks5.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is an American organisation that has been fighting against religious extremism in the US armed forces for two decades. The US constitution and the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) prohibitions against injecting religious beliefs into official military instruction or messaging. The director of the organisation said: “Any military members seeking to take advantage of their subordinates by advancing their blood-soaked, Christian nationalist wet dreams upon the flames of this latest non-Congressionally sanctioned attack against Iran, should be swiftly, aggressively and visibly prosecuted”6,7.
MRFF has reported more than 200 new complaints since the initial strikes against Iran, with members across all services claiming that high-ranking officers are tying the mission overseas to fulfilling a Christian prophecy. A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing some days ago that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”6,7.
As the director of MRFF said: “These calls have one damn thing in freaking common; our MRFF clients [service members who seek MRFF aid] report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new ‘biblically-sanctioned’ war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian ‘End Times’ as vividly described in the New Testament Book of Revelation.
This is the depth of religious batshittery in the US and it is astonishing in the depth of its depravity. I suspect that if anyone in a command position in the Australian Armed Forces said this sort of religious crap, they would be told very quickly to shut up or would be ‘encouraged’ to retire.
Sources
- https://blotreport.com/2025/08/03/chiropterid-excrement/
- https://blotreport.com/2019/07/22/the-numerous-second-comings/
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/tucker-carlson-mike-huckabee-israel
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/5/israeli-strikes-hit-beirut-amid-threats-on-iranian-officials-in-lebanon
- https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t
- https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/03/military-officers-accused-of-framing-iran-war-biblical-mandate.html
- https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for
Well written and well researched/annotated. If by “end times” they mean mankind killing itself off through their own ignorance, greed, and egomania then we’re right on schedule. And God is not involved.
Grandma Emily,
Yep. The human species is too stupid to survive.
From a discussion elsewhere:-
One of my favorite political commentators gave this almost perfect description:
Christian nationalism is not a type of Christianity; it’s a parasitic form of nationalism that infects Christianity, eats it from the inside, and creates a zombie nationalism that wears a Christian skinsuit.
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-lessons-of-james-talarico-and-woke-jesus
This was in the context of commenting that Talaricio (now the D senate candidate to take on either John Cornyn or Ken Paxton) might be a real challenge to Christian Nationalism.
I thought that might have been one of their open ones, but I guess not. This writer is a fairly devout Catholic. Here’s the broader context, which was a discussion around James Talarico’s victory in the Texas Senate primary:
Quoting:-
The medium-term survival of liberal democracy hinges on Republican voters abandoning their authoritarian project. That’s the ballgame. If they remain committed to the course they’re on, America will eventually become a supersized version of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
This authoritarian project is a river created from a number of inflows. There’s technological disruption, wealth concentration, the flowering of corruption, the ossification of our Constitution, and more.
One of the springs feeding this river is Christian nationalism.
Christian nationalism is not a type of Christianity; it’s a parasitic form of nationalism that infects Christianity, eats it from the inside, and creates a zombie nationalism that wears a Christian skinsuit.
Christian nationalism wouldn’t be especially dangerous in a secular country, like Sweden. It’s tremendously dangerous in America because we are a largely Christian society. If Christian nationalism is a mind virus, America has something like 150 million potential hosts.
Not. Good.
Christianity never maps well onto earthly politics. It especially doesn’t map to American politics circa 2026.
But I can say without reservation that the teachings of Christ are diametrically opposed to the main thrust of Trumpism.
The big asks of the New Testament are:
Love God with all your heart.
Love your neighbor as you do yourself.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the prisoner.
Whatever you do for the least among you, you do for God.
None of this is compatible with a political movement centered around a strongman who promises—literally—to persecute the vermin poisoning the blood of the nation.
Jesus was woke. Rendering to Caesar what is Caesar’s; chasing the money changers out of the temple; rejecting the hypocrisy of the Pharisees—the entire revelation of the New Testament is the establishment of a radical new covenant between God and man.
It makes no sense to say that Christianity is capital-D “Democratic”—but it is just objectively true that the teachings of Jesus are diametrically opposed to the bulk of the Christian nationalist project.
If Talarico can explain this reality to voters and make the Christian case for certain policy proposals, then maybe he can inoculate some American Christians against Christian nationalism.
Or at least force the Christian nationalists to take the mask off and admit that their project is really an ethno-nationalist affair.
Mark,
An apt description.