08-22-2019, 11:09 PM
His behavior is an amplification of conservatism's long-held stance that criticism of Israel is not permissible. Isreal must always possess victim status no matter what.
Fundamentalist Christians, who couldn't care less about Jews, fawn over the country because they put it on a pedestal of ideal religious perfection: a country literally founded for the benefit of one religion. Modern American Christians have been seeking the same thing here ever since. They have enough examples in the Bible of Jewish persecution that they allow themselves to be "victimized" whenever there's some slight against Christians.
That dogma alone is sufficient for American Christians to distrust Muslims, regardless of what they do.
Fundamentalist Christians, who couldn't care less about Jews, fawn over the country because they put it on a pedestal of ideal religious perfection: a country literally founded for the benefit of one religion. Modern American Christians have been seeking the same thing here ever since. They have enough examples in the Bible of Jewish persecution that they allow themselves to be "victimized" whenever there's some slight against Christians.
That dogma alone is sufficient for American Christians to distrust Muslims, regardless of what they do.