Last month, I attended an international conference in Jordan, next to the site where Jesús was supposedly baptized by Juan el Baptista. The title of my presentation was “Confessions of a Former Christian Zionist.” I argued Christian Zionism is a manifestation of European white supremacy, a modernization of Manifest Destiny, and an implementation of neo-Gun Diplomacy.
Christian Zionism, an outgrowth of white Christian nationalism, is a quasi-religious methodology that provides the justification for Gentiles (Christians and non-Christians) to support the political rights of a secular state in their implementation of settler colonialism, land theft and genocide.
A significant plank of what President Trump calls the “American Golden Age” is based on the expansion of white Christian nationalism and its stepchild, Christian Zionism. We find ourselves amid a political and religious realignment, as white Christian nationalism reshapes the nation into its image.
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