A huge amount of America is Baptist Christian and believes Israel needs to be at war for Jesus to come back etc. How impactful is this to real life? (hexbear.net)

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Is American foreign policy always a cool rational neoliberal calculation or do the delusions of the general public have meaningful impact?

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[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

You may want to clarify that you're talking about American Evangelicalism specifically (and on that point, I fully agree). This comes off as downplaying the very real persecution that, say, Palestinian Christians face from the Zionist state.

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