evangelical/born-again Christians worried about foreign policy

since the late 1970s evangelical/born-again Christians have been a driving force in US politics, because 9/11 they didn't seem to really care about things going on outside of the US (this is general some of their leaders did and Israel was always something they cared about) after 9/11 they become interested in the mid-east in an end times context, so what if the political evangelical/born-again Christians were always into foreign policy as a global war for Christianity?

I'd see hard-line support for Israel, raising money for Lebanese Christians in the civil war, support for the Protestants in Northern Ireland, support for White Rule in South Africa.
 
since the late 1970s evangelical/born-again Christians have been a driving force in US politics, because 9/11 they didn't seem to really care about things going on outside of the US (this is general some of their leaders did and Israel was always something they cared about) after 9/11 they become interested in the mid-east in an end times context, so what if the political evangelical/born-again Christians were always into foreign policy as a global war for Christianity?

I'd see hard-line support for Israel, raising money for Lebanese Christians in the civil war, support for the Protestants in Northern Ireland, support for White Rule in South Africa.

It's simple; they become uneasy bedfellows with neoconservatives a decade or so earlier and retain that uneasy relationship to the present.
 
I'd see hard-line support for Israel, raising money for Lebanese Christians in the civil war, support for the Protestants in Northern Ireland, support for White Rule in South Africa.

Basically, they support the bad guys everywhere (okay, Israel is the exception).

I always hated these Bible nuts.
 
I'd see hard-line support for Israel, raising money for Lebanese Christians in the civil war, support for the Protestants in Northern Ireland, support for White Rule in South Africa.

Aside from the support of protestants in Northern Ireland, which when combined with the IRA's supporters in the US could lead to some ugly confrontations (and maybe even the IRA going after some of the evangelical leaders), those four are pretty much bang on the money. It won't be worth much in most of those cases unless they can change government positions substantially, and that causes a whole bunch of cans of worms. The Reagan Administration publicly supporting South Africa (and Thatcher following along - she was one of the more reluctant Commonwealth leaders to attack the apartheid state, to the incensed ire of Ottawa and Canberra during the period) would change matters for South Africa substantially.
 
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