Neo-conservatism, Dispensationalism, and Christian-Zionism

Part 1 The Worst Ideologies collide in the geopolitical world.

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." -George Washington

FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1796

Progressivism and Neo-Conservatism are destroying the United States. In 2007, US debt was 10 trillion. Today, with 35 trillion dollars of debt, and interest payments alone topping 1 trillion, the progressives and neocon wing of the republican-establishment party have joined hands to irresponsibly bankrupt America sending hundreds of billions of military foreign aid to both Ukraine, and Israel in support of wars which hurt our vital national interests only serve to bring the United States perilously close to Nuclear Armageddon.

Brown University puts estimates on the cost of the 20 year War on terror at 8Trillion dollars and 900K lives. In comparison, USC places the cost of Kovid at over $14 Trillion. The printing of money for progressive and neocon agendas will not end well. Not all economic activity brings prosperity. Bastiat’s fallacy of the broken window should make that clear.

According to the Ukraine flag-waving-virtue-signaling “interventionists” we need to support “democracy” in Ukraine, one of the most corrupt nations in the world whose leader has has cancelled elections with “The Regime” in full support. This has been Ukraine’s pattern.

As of May 20, 2024, Zelensky’s term in office has expired. He has no plans on leaving his position.

Putin, showing NATO how actual democracy works, held elections in March winning in a landslide sending a strong message to NATO that their resolve to weaken Putin, or having him removed has borne little fruit at great expense.

The Regime has its own problems with “democracy”. 13 million more votes were supposedly cast for the incoherent-babbling-cis-white-pants-soiling-boomer Joetato, campaigning from his basement compared the highly coherent-eloquent-black-messiah-Kenyan, Barack Obama. Uh-huh.

“The survival of Ukraine is on the line”, opines the most prolific Newspeak bullshit artist Schmuck Schumer, one of the vilest criminals in the Senate. The United States is not the policeman of the world, and defending a corrupt state like Ukraine is not in our national interest. It’s no concern of Schumer as it’s not his ass on the line in Ukraine. The “NATO” victims in this conflict are the military-aged Ukrainian men being conscripted against their will in this unwinnable war. Many are poor farmers unaware of the geopolitics of the United States’ involvement. Many couldn’t even tell you what happened to America on 9/11. Likewise, if the US conscripted its young men, most would be from poor backgrounds and couldn’t show you where Ukraine is on a map. Shame on despicable Congressman Mike Johnson, who supports The Regime, and the annihilation of the Ukrainian men. Using Ukrainian lives as his personal proxy for weakening Putin, is despicable. There are ten other Putin-types lined up behind Putin ready for Putin’s job, and most of them are probably far less reasonable to negotiate with. Who do we think we are kidding?

Just War Theory and common sense posits a war must have achievable goals. The goals of the Regime are unachievable because NATO does not view this conflict as an existential threat. The proof Germans don’t hold this conflict as an existential threat they are not putting their economy and resources on a war footing. They are working at de-industrializing. Russia, on the other hand does view this conflict as an existential threat. Russia will never accept NATO missiles in Kharkiv no more than the United States would accept Soviet Union missiles introduced in Cuba.

Putin has found the war in Ukraine a useful tool for achieving his goals: demilitarizing Ukraine, and whether by sheer genius or luck, bankrupting NATO. Putin doesn’t want the war to escalate to the point where NATO introduces troops. The current war of attrition works in Putin’s favor as NATO is exhausting Western weapons while Ukraine is exhausting military-aged men. While not being a military analyst, I am betting Putin is awaiting the outcome of US elections in November, in hope a more reasonable person to negotiate with, Donald Trump, or perhaps RFKjr. At present, Putin doesn’t push West any more than the Dnieper, as his kill to casualty ratio is greatly in his favor and he shows little interest in taking Kharkiv, which seems historically shrewd. He has limited his advance to that which is pro-Russian anyway. Putin has a much larger military, a much larger population on which to draw fighting-men from and little shortage of weaponry all of which Ukraine lacks. Ukraine is emptying its prisons in search of conscripts.

In 2012, Obama criticized Mitt Romney’s foreign policy with respect to Russia as “so 1980”. That the cold war had been over for 20 years! This was a time where Russia and Ukraine shared open borders, and Black Sea access. The Crimean Peninsula was in Ukraine’s hands. All things changed once Victoria “F’ the EU” Nuland’s fat ass appeared in Ukraine.

If Russia was “so 1980” back in 2012, why the eastward expansion of NATO since 1980? Why is Victoria Nuland (state department) present at the coup in 2014? An eastward push of NATO treating Ukraine as a de-facto member would understandably provoke Russia. Wouldn’t we be better off working toward peace with Russia rather than crossing the red line Russia had long drawn since the end of the cold war? Afterall they were peacefully supplying natural gas to much of Europe. Do we have to continue down the road of stupid until nuclear war breaks out and there is no Ukraine left?

It appears long range US weapons have been used to take out an ICBM warning system near a city called Belgorod in Russia. This is serious provocation and a serious threat of war escalation, as if NATO is planning nuclear war. Is this to undermine presidential elections in November?

It is our duty as American citizens to vote every supporter of the Ukraine war out in November whether democrat or republican.

Enter the Christian Zionists

Switching to Israel Shlomo Sand writes on Zionism:

The founding myth of Zionism – which proceeds in an unbroken line from Max Nordau and Arthur Ruppin, to worrisome geneticists in several Israeli universities and at Yeshiva University in New York – acts as the principal ideological glue for the nation’s everlasting unity, and today more than ever. The justification for Zionist settlement/colonization (choose your preferred term – they mean the same thing) is the meta-paradigm that is expressed in the declaration of the establishment of the state, namely: “We were here, we were uprooted, we came back.”

Sand continues:

I have made a point of emphasizing that it’s not only Jews who don’t possess a common DNA – neither do all other human groups that claim to be peoples or nations – besides which I have never thought that genetics can confer national rights. For example, the French are not the direct descendants of the Gauls, just as the Germans are not the offspring of the Teutons or of the ancient Aryans, even if until a little more than half a century ago many idiots believed just that.

Sand’s point is Jewish DNA has been clouded over the centuries to the point where what defines an actual ethnic descendent and heir of various “land” promises made by God 4000 years ago has been blurred. I married a half-”Jewish” woman who is not considered Orthodox Jewish by Talmudic law as her father, not her mother is a Jew, and her mother, goyim. Still, she is only possibly half-Jewish, and of that half, I have no clue as to the percent her father is a descendant of Israel. Is she in any way, shape or form heirs to God’s land promises to ancient Israel? Absurd.

Judaism is mostly a religion of converts/proselytes over centuries, (See Matt 23:15 ; Acts 2:11 ; 6:5 ; 13:43) and less, a “pure” ethnicity as stated by Sand. Sand’s larger point is that genetics do not confer national rights which seems sensible but won’t carry much weight with a Christian-Zionist. I am 2nd generation US-born 100% ethnically Norwegian with family baptismal records dating back 300 years in Norway. I confer no rights or benefits to Norway’s vast oil reserves. It’s ridiculous to believe I ever could.

It’s regrettable that the insane-wacko-Marxist progressives who I have nothing in common are correct about US military aid being sent to Israel, but even a stopped-clock is correct 2 times per day. Zionism is the principal source of the Palestinian conflict and has worked against US national interests for decades. This booklet, written by Jews for Justice details Zionism’s history:

The standard Zionist position is that they showed up in Palestine in the late 19th century to reclaim their ancestral homeland. Jews bought land and started building up the Jewish community there. They were met with increasingly violent opposition from the Palestinian Arabs, presumably stemming from the Arabs’ inherent anti-Semitism. The Zionists were then forced to defend themselves and, in one form or another, this same situation continues up to today.

The problem with this explanation is that it is simply not true, as the documentary evidence in this booklet shall show. What really happened was that the Zionist movement, from the beginning, looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the indigenous Arab population so that Israel could be a wholly Jewish state, or as much as was possible. Land bought by the Jewish National Fund was held in the name of the Jewish people and could never be sold or even leased back to Arabs (a situation which continues to the present).

Dispossession of indigenous Arab population is downplayed by the pro-Zionist camp as evidenced by the claim Palestine was a “land without a people” or that Palestinians never existed [qualified by] “at least in any national sense”. It is supreme hubris and irony that such a statement was uttered by a Golda Meir, being born in Kiev, Ukraine, and whose parents were Ukrainian, while those who were actually living in Palestine for generations under Ottoman rule working the land (60% were in agriculture) were dispossessed of that land, never to return. But this is the kind of word-parsing bullshit one has to argue with a pro-Zionist which is never worth arguing. The fact, dispossession was the plan from the beginning of Zionism. There is a lot of recorded history of this. There is also a lot of recorded history on the promises protecting the rights of the indigenous peoples of the “non-Jewish” kind living in Palestine as far back to the Balfour Declaration. There is also a lot of recorded history about warnings and opposition to Zionism by Christians pre-1948 warning about the discord Zionism would reap if it ever came to pass. Zionists were simply better lobbyists. When you have Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis lobbying on your side, you have powerful political allies. As they say, the rest IS history.

The peculiar argument from the modern “conservative” Christian-Zionist wing is the “natural rights endowed by our Creator” are superseded by God’s special rights conferred to Israel. No consideration is given to what actually defines Israel at this point. Nor is there any thought to why so many Jews throughout the world are content NOT to return to the land flowing with milk and honey; it doesn’t matter. What matters according to these Christian-Zionists, God gave the land to Israel, Jews have been persecuted, and Esau’s natural rights are superseded by Divine decree by tenuous claims as Israel’s progeny (contra Joshua 21:43-45)….so get off their damned property. US-based Christians who make what amounts to some version of these shallow arguments should be a tad more sympathetic to the Palestinian plight as unfettered illegal immigration of a similar kind, and at similar rates are occurring across the US Southern border and is being done on purpose to politically and permanently undermine the culture and politics of conservative Christianity. It doesn’t stretch the imagination to consider “conservative-white” Christians might very well become the next Esau based on their European ancestry. Hating/Blaming Whitey for the evils of US history is a passion of progressives and serves as the permission slip and apologetic for all kinds of nefarious activities including the looting of cities, the occupation of cities, and the burning of cities.

Goliath (Israel) becomes the adopted de-facto 51st US state of the Congress of the United States. Genesis 12:3 as alluded to by our despicable “wartime-Christian” Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson who votes to send US Taxpayer money to supply Goliath (Israel), all the bombs they need to drop on Esau, to deprive Esau of those basic natural rights called “property, life, and the pursuit of happiness” all without due process, to “finish the job” as blood thirsty neocon warmonger genocidal maniac Nikki Haley demands. The interpretation of Genesis 12:3 argument falls flat on its face for various reasons which I am not going to fully cover here. Goliath (Israel) has been the largest recipient of US foreign military aid to the tune of over $220 Billion and the US was instrumental in Israel’s establishment in 1948. My question to all the Christian-Zionists who rely on Genesis 12:3 as an admonition for arming Israel: After 75 years of “blessing” Israel with weapons, is the US better off in 2024 vs 1948? Is the Middle East better off in 2024 versus 1948?

The awkwardness of Christians supporting Israel’s Middle East foreign policies, is myriad. These foreign policies have decimated ancient Christian communities throughout the Middle East and has altered the balance of power in favor of Iran. Regarding Saddam’s weapons program, Netanyahu perpetuated the myth:

“There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking, is working, is advancing towards to the development of nuclear weapons.” He urged the United States forward, arguing that it “must destroy” the regime of Saddam Hussein

Netanyahu then promised to the US Congress in 2002:

If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.

Uh-huh. I’m sure Netanyahu will be lobbying the US to turn Iran into a sheet of glass if he hasn’t already.

Most/Many Christian-Zionists, who have an obsession with national Israel are dispensationalists. Dispensationalist Christians, otherwise known as useful idiots, form a powerful lobby group on behalf of Jewish Zionism. Whitney Webb does a superb job summarizing their history. Dispensationalism is a novel and intricate eschatological system which boasts it rightly divides the word of God as well as the people of God (contra Gal 3:38) into two camps: Church and Israel with two separate “dispensations” or “outworking of God’s plans” (contra Acts 4:12). Christian-Zionism, which is not to be confused with Christian-dispensationalism finds its roots in Puritanism. The eschatological system of dispensationalism which is Zionism-on-steroids is a more recent development under a man named John Nelson Darby gaining a foothold in Christian thought in the 1800’s via Cyrus Scofield. Cyrus Scofield is the man most responsible for the creation of Christian Zionism, far more influential than the Puritans. Scofield’s system of dispensationalism certainly influences US foreign policy and is an embarrassingly bad interpretation of Scripture from which to base US foreign policy. Other than the creation of Israel, dispensationalists have long mis-predicted the rapture of the church, have long mis-predicted historical figures who have come and gone throughout 20th century as the notorious anti-Christ, and have long mis-predicted timelines of various eschatological events. If you have ever watched an episode of Jack Van Impe and his wife Roxella, they open up the newspaper next to their Bible, and start interpreting the Bible based on the headlines of the newspaper. So right about so little. Most of these people have gone home with the Lord with their predictions unfulfilled as a generation since Israel’s founding has come and gone. It’s mind-boggling to me many otherwise-respectable Christian theologians subscribe to some form of this nonsense. It’s also mind-boggling that as their predictions have failed to come to pass, that the system has not been widely rejected. I left dispensationalism in the early 90’s.

Whitney Webb quotes Gershom Gorenberg, that Menachem Begin was the first to tap “evangelical enthusiasm” turning it into both political and financial support. Evangelical enthusiasm is a bit broad term, and not quite accurate. Not all evangelicals are dispensationalists. Useful idiot Jerry Falwell received a Lear Jet valued at $4 Million from Menachem Begin which is a frightening indicator on how much political influence Falwell had on US foreign policy. Either that, or Menachem Begin had some spare Lear Jets sitting around that he wanted to handout to his US-based dispensational friends, but I suspect he wanted something in return.

What is interesting to note, according to Whitney Webb, fewer US Jews (40%) and fewer Israeli Christians (16%) believe that God gave Israel to the Jews compared to US Christians (55%). US-based Christians make a particularly powerful political ally to Israel, and Jewish Zionists like Netanyahu have recognized this and take full advantage of it. One thing you can bet on, Jewish-Zionists like Menachem Begin, and Benjamin Netanyahu are shrewd. An enemy of their enemy is their friend.

In the video below Benjamin Netanyahu courts John Hagee and his CUFI Christians (Christians United For Israel), for their influence and for their support:

Gersham Gorenberg, referring to Hal Lindsey (author of the 1970’s Late Great Planet Earth) says of Lindsey’s view of Jews serving two roles:

The first — despite his (Hal Lindsey, my note) insistence of love for Jews — is the classic one of Christian anti-Jewish polemic: They are ‘the Jewish people who crucified Jesus’ and the archetype of those who ignore the truth of prophecy. The second role is to fulfill prophecy despite themselves.

This awkwardness is amplified by the fact that dispensationalist-Christians are encouraging the return of the Jews to national Israel where according to their eschatology, Jews will be met with great retribution where 2/3rds are slaughtered per fulfillment of Matthew 24, and Zechariah 13:8. The Jew in the video below understands this. The video is titled “Christians want Jewish People to Die”; his clueless bubble-headed-bleach-blonde interviewer doesn’t. He states [dispensational] Christians support “foreign policies which are antithetical to Israel’s security and existence. The worst possible allies to the Jewish state are the fundamentalist Christians who want Jews to die and convert [sic] so they can bring on the second coming of their Lord….”

He is exactly right except I’m not sure dying and then converting is a possibility.

In an article titled, “Zion’s Christian Soldiers”, Mary-Jayne McKay reports:

Countless millions of Americans are reading a series of novels called "Left Behind." These novels are topping bestseller lists all over the country and they're being made into movies. They chronicle apocalyptic times, and the setting is the 21st century, complete with war planes and TV correspondents.

However, the plot is ripped from the pages of the Bible, so it all winds up here in Israel where, according to the Book of Revelations, the final battle in the history of the future will be fought on an ancient battlefield in northern Israel called Armageddon. It will follow seven years of tribulation during which the earth will be shaken by such disasters that previous human history will seem like a day in the country. The blood will rise as high as a horse's bridle at Armageddon, before Christ triumphs to begin his 1,000-year rule.

And the Jews? Well, two-thirds of them will have been wiped out by now. But the survivors will accept Jesus at last.

Gorenberg is the author of the "End of Days," a book about those Christian evangelicals who choose to read the Bible literally. "They don't love real Jewish people. They love us as characters in their story, in their play, and that's not who we are, and we never auditioned for that part, and the play is not one that ends up good for us."

Politics make strange bedfellow, Christians idiots like Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Hagee confab with the likes of neocon war monger John Bolton, ostensibly a Lutheran, and orthodox Jews like Dennis Prager, and David Friedman over support for Israel. I will guarantee, Prager and Friedman fully understand Hagee’s take on who Jesus Christ is, as well as Hagee’s end-times eschatological implications for Jews and are only using these CUFI Christians as foreign policy tools in support of their foreign policy positions which has brought so much conflict to the region. The prostitution is disgusting by both sides. One example is a Washington DC Summit:

Along these lines, as noted by Whitney Webb, John Hagee would have to be careful what he would say at such a conference with Orthodox Jews present as he has managed to stuff foot squarely in his mouth by his awkward interpretation of world history filtered through the lens of his end-times-eschatology by stating Adolf Hitler had been sent by God to act as a “hunter,” and force Jews by means of the Holocaust to resettle in Palestine as a means of fulfilling Biblical prophecy. God is too busy to deal with the Church and Israel simultaneously, so He sends Adolf Hitler to help move things along with the Jews as the Church age is coming to a close.

The apostle John asks:

1John 2:22-23: Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Prager and Friedman as well as Benjamin Netanyahu fully understand the gospel message, yet fully deny Jesus is the Christ. My use of the term antichrist applied to folks like Prager is actually in accordance with Scripture, where dispensationalists “stretch” the use of the term applying it to a nefarious political figure found in Revelation AKA “the Beast” when no explicit application is ever made. The Beast of Revelation may certainly be an antichrist (See 1John 2:18) but the term “antichrist” is never applied in reference to him. The definition supplied by 1John 2:22, the term is directly applicable to Prager. Here we have Pastor John Hagee directly conferencing with antichrists! The apostle Paul rhetorically asks what Christ has in accord with Belial.

I don’t know whether Mike Johnson is a dispensationalist in the mold of Mike Pence, I suspect he probably is. The scary thing is he has access to the purse strings of the American taxpayer as well as the Federal Reserve printing press to lead us to both to Armageddon, and financial and moral bankruptcy financially supporting Sodom and Gomorrah as Tel Aviv, is the homosexual capital of the Middle East .

Dispensational eschatology also implies support for Jewish eschatological musings. According to Wikipedia, the desire for a Third Temple is sacred within Orthodox Judaism. The main obstacle in the construction of a Third Temple is Islam’s third holiest site, the Dome of the Rock. It doesn’t take a crystal ball or a deep imagination to understand the conflict this would cause. This is a recipe for all-out war in the Middle East which could conceivably culminate in the Sampson option as God’s “chosen people” like Netanyahu have been losing global support. Is this the kind of “blessing” one would expect out of God’s promise in Genesis 12:3? Shall we continue down this path to perdition?

Dispensational support of construction of a Third Temple where sacrifices are to be reinstituted undermine the Christian understanding of Jesus and the point of His sacrifice to end all sacrifices (1John2:1-2) for the whole world including Jews. I suspect God has long made it impossible for a Third Temple to be constructed as such an event would be an abomination to Him, and undermine the fact God gave His only Son as the perfect sacrifice and the perfect Temple. There have been other attempts and miraculous failures in building the Third Temple before the Dome of the Rock served as God’s final obstacle. One attempt failed during the Bar Kochba revolt in 132AD resulted in Jews being banned in Jerusalem. A second attempt suffered supernatural failure during the reign of Julian and was abandoned when workers were burned by fireballs breaking out near the foundation. I personally suspect God would allow all-out war as judgement rather than have the re-establishment of sacrifices in a Third Temple coming to pass in mockery of the sacrifice of His Son.

The principal problem with dispensationalism is not so much about “what” they predict in their eschatology, but “when” these events are to occur, as their predictions are anachronistic. A devastating ax to their system is found in the first chapter of Revelation, the dispensational futurist “literalist” interpretation of Scripture comes crashing down when the Apostle John, writing to then-existing first century churches about the prophesy found in the book of Revelation was written to show his servants (1st century churches in the Roman Empire) things which “must shortly take place”. John adds:

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

No dispensationalist takes the phrase, “must shortly take place”, and “the time is near” found in Revelations, literally. It becomes abundantly clear when this verse is reflected upon along with the myriads of other “time stamps” throughout the New Testament, the only sensible interpretation is John, being imprisoned on Patmos during the regime of Nero (Rev 1:9), writing to then existing churches to take heart over “events which must shortly take place”, and that “the time is near” is that he was writing to churches throughout the Roman Empire who were probably already undergoing persecution by Nero.

Tacitus records:

Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.

Revelation details the unleashing of God’s wrath released at the Siege of fortress that made up Jerusalem, and destruction of its Temple.

They were to “take heart” as hell-on-earth was about to be released.

More on this in Part 2.