Chris Matthews and David Corn are trying to understand why most Christians love Israel and for the life of them they just can’t figure it out. Matthews thinks it’s not based on morals or values, but some weird rightwing thing. Hmmmmm.
You know, Matthews is right. For the life of me I can’t figure out why Christians would love a very peaceful people who share our Judeo-Christian values, who have been unfairly accosted by much of the world for their entire existence. Why would we love people who so desperately want peace that they would actually try and seek it with a people who hate their existence and want to see their demise. No, there can’t be any moral, value or principle on which Christians, who typically love everyone as Christ does, would also love the Jews.
Given their severe lack of understanding the eventually resort to a Jew joke….noting that Christian love Jews only because of some Revelation/Armageddon thing, not because we actually like Jews..at which point Matthews breaks out in hysterical laughter.
Yeah, that’s really funny Chris. Why on earth would anyone actually like Jews.
Video and Transcript below:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: This coalition between the Right and Israel, the evangelical right in the United States, is not founded on personal friendships or anything like that, or even values. It’s founded on some sort of weird, rightwing thing. You just high five each other there at the Western Wall and then that’s done, they’re trip.
DAVID CORN, MOTHER JONES: But there is a theological component which Gene was referring to…
MATTHEWS: Explain.
CORN: …Which is there’s a certain brand of evangelical Christians who believe in Revelations, that Armageddon is coming, and that will happen in Israel basically.
MATTHEWS: If they hold the West Bank.
CORN: If they hold, well there’s a lot of different components to that, but that’s why they like Israel. That’s why they want Israel to be strong. It’s not because…
MATTHEWS: It’s not personal.
CORN: Right. It’s not because they like Jews or Israelis.
MATTHEWS: [Laughs hysterically]
(Transcript and H/T to Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters)
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