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.
Unfortunately, there are such individuals in Australia, some rising to positions of influence and power, some official, some the fist in the glove, and fisting the community. Most religions are fundamentally pro community, but all will have some of an extreme persuasion, those who would consider “their beliefs” as the one true way, and anyone not in, is to be utterly cast out. How to deal with those, the best is to make sure they publicly humiliate themselves, but in a way that they cannot assign blame except to themselves. That last is a long slow haul, of immense difficulty as they want to blame anyone, everyone, else, and realization that they are the cause of the problem is the antithesis of their base and core beliefs.
Mark,
I think their main concern is that as religion is declining in most of the world, the religious are terrified that their privilege will disappear, and that terror is driving their bastardry.
There are those who need others to bolster their beliefs and sense of being “right”.
There are some who are sufficiently comfortable in themselves that they can accept, live with, and work with people of different beliefs, but who are all concerned with the broad swath of humanity, and looking after the only generational interstellar spaceship we have, and its life support, the biosphere, this one planet we call “earth”.
The latter are a surprisingly large group, but their voice and influence is being deliberately suppressed by a rather small group of people who have undue wealth and bought power, the money provides an undue megaphone for delusional ideology.
There needs to be a significant change to taxation to restore equity. This is an excellent article about wealth.
https://kitthornton.substack.com/p/its-their-money
For all of us, an hour of lifespan is an hour of lifespan, and for someone to have an income in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars for an hour of lifespan, when so many struggle, willing to do work, but little paid work available, and paid so little for what they get, it is an obscenity.
It is past due that there was a recognition that every business activity has multiple stakeholders. Currently there is recognition of the “financial” and ownership stakeholding, but there needs to be a formal legal statement for an equal standing of the community, and the environment alongside the financial one. Making profit the only measure, and failing to claw back enough to fund the physical and social infrastructure is burning out our civil society.
In the longer term, and not all that long, it will lead to a decay and failure of the civil society infrastructure that they “feast’ on.
Mark,
I am amazed at the hypocrisy of the religious fanatics in all religions. So many christians spout the name of Jesus all the time while ignoring almost everything he is reputed to have said. Monsters like Smotrich and Gvir claim that Jews are the chosen people, while they look upon Palestinians as ‘untermenschen’, and Islam is claimed to be a religion of peace while some of its adherents fly planes into buildings. Religions mostly seems to be a useful disguise for psychopathy.
Australia isn’t immune from these appalling hypocrites. We recently had a religious fundamentalist as PM. Fortunately his influence was largely moderated by Australia’s secular democracy and our innate skepticism towards authority and abhorrence of extremism. Morrison’s chosen cult subscribes to both extremely convenient, anti-Christian, prosperity “gospel” concepts (aka wealth worship) AND the Seven Mountains Mandate (aka christian – in isn’t by any measure – sharia) which sets out plans for dominating societies. Both of these concepts emerged relatively recently – ie they have no basis in historical theology – from, as you probably guessed, the Benighted States of America where nescience, credulousness and the relentless pursuit of wealth are essential attributes for proponents and followers alike.
Morrison as we know wasn’t shy in handing out taxpayer money to his fundamentalist mates while persecuting the poor and less well-off (to wit, the illegal and unconscionable Robodebt, which we STILL haven’t seen anyone made accountable for despite a comprehensive and expensive Royal Commission). Robodebt was sold by the conservatives as a $4.5B budget saver. In the end it cost lives, caused immense mental and financial stress, and trashed reputations while costing taxpayers nearly $2.5B in legal fees, refunds and class action payouts. Ironically it was set up and run by the fawning Dept of Human Services.
And do not forget the “Mad Monk” who could never live up to his family name, Tony Abbot. He claimed to be a good “Catholic”, but “By their fruits shall you know them”, he was far from being honest in claims to being “Christian”, but the “fundamentalist” tag fitted rather too well, like Scott Morrison, SCOMO, no, Scummo, deeply ideological, without regard for the real world. They were both dangerous, and very damaging, and in the light of Bondi, and the Recognition Referendum, deeply bigoted.
Ah yes Mark we should never forget The Mad Monk, or his obdurate defence of the disgraceful George Pell for that matter. That said, Abbot seems somewhat rational compared to what contemporary ‘Merica’ is currently serving up.
Abbot was rightly tagged as a wrecker, Gillard drily observing : ‘Every day he gets up, he has a negative thought – and then he double-checks it’. He tried to abolish the revenue earning CEFC and did kill off the MRRT – just one of thousands of spineless federal politicians, aka political robber barons, involved directly in ensuring that our natural resources were/are still ‘sold’ to private interests for a pittance. He will also be “fondly” remembered for his contribution to Australian case law, being – as one wag opined – the only person in Australia that a court has ruled it’s OK to call a see-you-next-tuesday.
https://nswcourts.com.au/articles/court-rules-its-ok-to-refer-to-tony-abbott-as-a-ct/
That trumps even Whitlam’s famous witty response to Winston Churchill, which apparently drew applause from both sides of the lower house.
https://www.news.com.au/national/gough-whitlam-remembered-for-his-quick-wit-and-that-tv-ad-for-leggos-pasta-sauce/news-story/007e66ff548bffb6b48cea049c16ff85
woops, that should be
…..Winston TURNBULL
Update today on the (pathetic) outcome of the NACC’s Robodebt enquiry:
By Andrew Brown in Canberra
Two officials involved in the unlawful robodebt scheme have been found to be corrupt, but will avoid facing criminal charges.
A National Anti-Corruption Commission inquiry on Wednesday found two of six people referred to it for investigation engaged in corrupt conduct, while it cleared the remaining four.
Those cleared included former Liberal prime minister Scott Morrison, who initiated the scheme while social services minister.
The watchdog found ex-departmental general manager of business integrity Mark Withnell carried out corrupt conduct by intentionally misleading the Department of Social Services during the preparation of a cabinet submission in 2015.
It also found department deputy secretary Serena Wilson carried out corrupt conduct by misleading the Commonwealth Ombudsman during an investigation in 2017.
But the watchdog said the findings won’t be referred to the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions to consider criminal charges.
“There was insufficient admissible evidence to establish the alleged offences against either Mr Withnell or Ms Wilson beyond reasonable doubt,” the report said.
“Key admissions and statements made during this investigation are not admissible in criminal proceedings.”
Mr Morrison was not found to be corrupt.
His failure to realise bureaucratic advice was misleading was put down to shortcomings by federal departments.
The corruption watchdog did not make recommendations in its final report, which followed referrals from the royal commission into the robodebt scheme.
The watchdog initially chose not to investigate the referrals before the controversial decision was overturned.
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This piece of garbage* catches the eye:
Mr Morrison was not found to be corrupt.
*His failure to realise bureaucratic advice was misleading was put down to shortcomings by federal departments.*
Morrison’s office was regularly reported to run on the principle of plausible deniability – ie protecting Morrison by supposedly only involving him where absolutely necessary. That he, or his office weren’t aware of advice regarding the likely illegality of the system at some point is frankly not credible. I doubt Morrison acted corruptly in this case – his sins were incompetence, lack of care for others, and lack of interest in rectifying wrongs when it hit the fan publicly. His govt was also guilty of politicising the public service, which arguably led to particular people in the service failing in their duties.
The NACC has strict guidelines to adhere to (which may well be the problem) but so far I’m seeing absolutely nothing to support its (expensive) continuing existence. I was initially all for it but so far it has had bugger all impact, which is just how the establishment likes it.
https://theklaxon.com.au/nacc-finds-no-corruption-spends-140m-to-date/
Jon,
As I have said here before, the current incarnation of the NACC is to give the impression of doing something about corruption, without actually doing anything about corruption. They should have the powers of a Royal Commission and their hearing should be open to the public.
You’d swear it was a piss-take if you didn’t know better.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/pete-hegseth-arouses-maga-by-invoking-bible-in-iran-war/ar-AA1XUEkv
It’s not just extreme christo-fascists that the Benighted States needs to be worried about, it’s the irrationality of people with public platforms (and the absolute shedload of fwits in power of course). Is it the entitled, fast-trending-towards arrogant, culture? The education system? Their upbringing? The fact that there’s big money to be made being an undeveloped deuterastome? Or just an expression of the constitutional right to publicly display their egotistic asininity so we can all learn what to avoid? I think the firstmentioned is a very big factor. When money and destructive might replace humanity and reason as cultural drivers you know you’re on a VERY slippery slope.
Jon,
I think I mentioned this before, some years ago. The historian Geoffrey Blainey gave a radio interview which I heard at the time (maybe in the 1980s or 1990s, in which he suggested that the US would eventually break up into three nations; one on the west coast, one in the northeast, and the last extending from Florida and Texas up to the Canadian border. It looks likely that all but the craziest of the MAGAts are starting to abandon ship, with Trump being as popular as genital warts. There also seems to be an expectation that there will be a ‘terrorist’ attack on US soil, or an assassination of Trump (now that most republicans realise he is a liability heading into the midterms), so the remaining fruitcakes can institute Martial Law, and postpone or take over the electoral process. If that happens, the US is finished.
Trump as we know is a cowardly, sociopathic, money-worshiping egotist. He lies constantly and transparently poorly, as he did recently claiming progress towards a ceasefire with Iranian officials. This was refuted by Iran. Who then to believe? A nasty regime run by religious fanatics which supports terrorism in other countries, tramples on democracy and murders its own citizens, or Iran? Boom boom.
As he did before the stealth bombing of Iran’s nuclear facility, Trump is buying time and his unquestionably cerebral advisers/sycophants no doubt think that this will see Iran drop its guard. If the boot was on the other foot I’d say that was a very likely outcome. Suffice to say that the deployment of 3000 elite soldiers won’t have gone unnoticed, not they they can do much about it.
Trump also suggested that Iran had sent him a very expensive oil and gas present. Reading between the lines I’m guessing that “present” is Kharg Island and the assault will commence as soon as the paratroopers reach the middle east. Trump will either then use the island as a bargaining chip or might even annex it if loathsome radicals like Liindsay Graham have their way. After all that’s the Israel modus operandi. Ignore interntional law, destroy critical infrastructure, murder and drive out civilians, then steal their land.
My question is: who is going to stop this 21st century Trump-Netanyahu axis of evil? The UN won’t/can’t, “allies” won’t, and adversaries (or mates, in the case of Putin) are sitting back enjoying the stupidity. Putin now has the perfect parallel for his own aggression, and China could make similar claims with Taiwan.
Only decent Americans can stop the rot, but even if they do happen to wake up, change can’t begin before November.
Jon,
If they don’t remove him soon, I expect things will get rapidly worse, both for American troops and Israel, and I half expect the latter to go nuclear, if it looks like Netanyahu is in danger of being tossed out.
More repugnant, hypocritical tripe from American “christian” egoists. Not for those with weak stomachs.
Trump ‘has spiritual obligation to bomb Iran’ : https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-has-spiritual-obligation-to-bomb-iran/ar-AA1Zuero
Ignoring the unhuman callousness, the craven platitudes, the ignorance of actual christian teachings, and the arms length bloodthirstiness of these monsters, why is it that people (in certain countries) who have never experienced the horrors of war – or who have dodged service – are so keen to inflict pain, suffering and devastation on others they know nothing about, AND send their own to do their dirty work to boot? Sickening stuff. Makes me hope there is a Hell, but these charlatans also deserve a worldly reckoning beforehand. Conspiracy to commit genocide and giving comfort to terrorism sound like good starting points for the International Court of Justice.