Dispensationalism & US Support for Israel

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How much of popular US support for Israel do you think is based on Dispensationalist outlook? (or how important is the dispensationalist view in the Christian Right today?)

― maricopa john, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have much of a grasp on what dispensationalism is, to be honest. I think it's pretty widely accepted that American protestant and/or fundamentalist Christian groups play a huge role in US support for Israel, but I'm not sure if that's what you're asking.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

And that millenialism plays a role in this, etc.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell73.html

This guy writes a lot about this kinda thing. Suffice it to say that there's no shortage of support.

― kingfish, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

popular support != state department support

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

^^^ i missed the bit where anyone suggested or even implied this

are dispensationalists a kind of millenial-calvinist thing? a lot of their aims (protection of israel in order to allow prophecy) are at odds with govt aims, but as a comparatively large wing of religious thought in a religious superpower...nevertheless help, even if tangentially, with pro-israeli policies in the US?

― maricopa john, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

widely accepted that American protestant and/or fundamentalist Christian groups play a huge role in US support for Israel, but I'm not sure if that's what you're asking.

Well this much is obvious. What i was unsure about, was how large a proportian of that protestant/fundamentalist Christian support is Dispensationalist in nature. And how overtly stated the Dispensationalism is

― maricopa john, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

The overtly state part isn't all that common, and sometimes not even mentioned in these folks conversations with themselves.

more here.

― kingfish, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

U.S. support for Israel has very little to do with dispensationalism, except perhaps at the margins. Nor is it a central philosophy within the fundamentalist Christian community. But merely by existing in a signifigant minority as a fervently held belief, it casts a gravitational pull upon the Christian Right as a whole and has a sort of quasi-legitimacy in the fundamentalist community.

And because people like Karl Rove understand that a marginal group can swing elections, the dispensationalists swing more weight in Republican political circles than their marginal numbers would suggest.

― Aimless, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Popularly it has more to do with sentiment than theology.

― fife, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

here's a good place to start searching. The Israel section of the Rapture Ready board. Ask them and post the more entertaining responses here.

The other good link place to check out is here.

― kingfish, Saturday, 31 March 2007 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

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