{"id":35805,"date":"2017-12-18T17:52:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=35805"},"modified":"2017-12-18T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:52:20","slug":"court-evangelical-makes-ludicrous-claim-support-jerusalem-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2017\/12\/18\/court-evangelical-makes-ludicrous-claim-support-jerusalem-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Court evangelical makes ludicrous claim about his support for Jerusalem policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p class=\"p1\">Johnnie Moore, the former communications VP at Liberty University who now identifies himself as \u201can informal spokesperson for the evangelicals who advise the Trump administration,\u201d wants you to know that white evangelical support for Trump\u2019s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital has nothing at all to do with Rapture folklore, premillennial dispensationalism, \u201cBible prophecy,\u201d or any of the End Times theology taught at Liberty (home of the LaHaye Ice Center and the LaHaye Recreation and Fitness Center).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Certainly not.\u00a0Such a thing never entered the mind of any red-blooded American follower of Christ and Trump. That\u2019s just an unfair misperception being promoted by the crooked liberal media, Moore says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The truth, Moore says, is that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2017\/12\/18\/evangelicals-support-trumps-jerusalem-decision-because-we-care-about-the-palestinians\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Evangelicals\u00a0support Trump\u2019s Jerusalem decision because we care about the Palestinians<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evangelicals in the United States supported President Trump\u2019s decision precisely because of their concern for the Palestinians in addition to their special relationship with Israel and the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelicals are also tired of seeing innocent Palestinians abused and used by tyrants and terrorists. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Evangelicals close to the administration did not support the president\u2019s decision because we favor Jews over Arabs nor for any obscure (and highly contested, I might add) theological reasons like those speculated about, reported upon and sensationalized in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelicals supported the decision because we believe it was the smart and right thing to do. Ours was a geopolitical opinion, and not a theological one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35810\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35810\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2017\/12\/Moore.jpg\" alt=\"Johnnie Moore exits the RNS offices after dropping off his latest column.\" width=\"550\" height=\"320\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnnie Moore conducts a staff meeting at his Kairos PR firm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m intimately familiar with this line of argument. It\u2019s identical to what I used to hear from corporate executives back when I was working on the campaign for divestment from Apartheid South Africa. \u201cConstructive engagement,\u201d the executives all said. \u201cWe\u2019re staying because\u00a0we care for black South Africans and only want what\u2019s best for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They\u2019d repeat these stale talking-points while smirking disingenuously. I appreciated that. Unlike Moore, they at least had the courtesy not to pretend that they expected anyone to find\u00a0their self-serving\u00a0cover story\u00a0credible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The weirdest thing about Moore\u2019s column peddling this line is his apparent expectation that people reading what he writes for Religion News Service\u00a0won\u2019t be able just as easily to glance over at white evangelical media \u2014 at the websites, TV, radio, and print publications where his people are talking candidly amongst themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Let\u2019s click over to the Christian Broadcasting Network (\u201cthe Christian perspective\u201d!) and see how \u201cTrump\u2019s Jerusalem decision\u201d is being discussed there:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/israel\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35811\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2017\/12\/CBNIsrael.jpg\" alt=\"CBNIsrael\" width=\"550\" height=\"321\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hmm, nothing there about \u201cwe care about Palestinians\u201d (Gordon Robertson\u2019s commentary paints them as violent, sub-humans displaying an insufficient gratitude for the benefits of colonialism). But there\u2019s a great deal about the \u201cBiblical Significance\u201d of America\u2019s Jerusalem embassy and about whether it\u2019s \u201can Opportunity to Build Third Temple.\u201d None of what CBN\u2019s writers have to say contradicts any of the reporting about theological views driving evangelical support\u00a0 \u2014 the reporting that Moore complains\u00a0is sensationalistic. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2017\/12\/18\/trump-lets-rapture-preachers-reset-countdown-clocks\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">articles we looked at earlier today<\/a>\u00a0describe the very same views described and\u00a0advocated by the CBN writers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In short \u2014 according to CBN, according to everyone who writes for CBN, and\u00a0according to\u00a0the millions of white evangelicals who <em>read<\/em> CBN \u2014 Johnnie Moore is full of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For a more honest representation of why white evangelicals \u201csupport Trump\u2019s Jerusalem decision,\u201d let\u2019s turn to one of those CBN pieces: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/israel\/2017\/december\/biblical-timing-of-absolute-precision-john-hagee-praises-trumps-jerusalem-decision\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u2018Biblical Timing of Absolute Precision\u2019: John Hagee Praises Trump\u2019s Jerusalem Decision<\/a>.\u201d CBN is reporting on the reaction from John Hagee because he\u2019s the \u201cfounder and chairman of Christians United for Israel,\u201d and because he represents the views of their white evangelical readers much better than Johnnie Moore\u2019s attempt to pose as a savvy political insider ever could.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hagee is positively giddy. He sees Trump\u2019s announcement as a tremendously exciting sign of the End Times. Granted, John Hagee thinks <em>Wednesdays<\/em> are a tremendously exciting sign of the End Times. This is a man, after all, who has spent 50 years telling us the Rapture was going to occur tomorrow \u2014 which is to say that he\u2019s a man who has predicted 18,250 of the last zero Raptures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hagee\u2019s response is partly the application of premillennial dispensationalist boilerplate, and partly just a word salad of disconnected phrases from PMD folklore. He explains that he urged President Trump to make his Jerusalem announcement this year because of <em>numerology<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">He also talked with the president about the significance of moving the embassy in this \u201cJubilee Year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c\u2026I told him that God measures everything in modules of 50 years,\u201d Hagee explained to CBN News. \u201cAnd I said this is a principle that\u2019s carried out in Leviticus, the 25th chapter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI said, \u2018If you look at 1917, it was a Jubilee Year, and the Balfour Amendment came, and then in 50 years, it was 1967, and\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">Jerusalem was reconnected to Israel<\/span>,'\u201d he continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c\u2018And you add 50 to 1967, and you\u2019re in 2017.\u2019 I said, \u2018This is the year to move the embassy and make that declaration because it is a biblical timing of absolute precision,'\u201d Hagee said. \u201cThank God, he\u2019s going to do exactly that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The year of Jubilee \u2014 described in great detail there in Leviticus 25 \u2014 involves debt cancellation, the release of prisoners, the emancipation of slaves, and the redistribution of the means of production. Hagee\u2019s\u00a0attempt to\u00a0twist that passage into something about 50-year intervals of arbitrary \u201cprophecy\u201d milestones doesn\u2019t even qualify as an \u201cinterpretation.\u201d He\u2019s just making stuff up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I wondered what it was, exactly, that made Hagee decide to regard 1917, 1967, and 2017\u00a0as \u201cJubilee Years.\u201d That curiosity sent me down a Google hole that I\u00a0would not recommend\u00a0you explore unless you have a great deal of free time, a fondness for mid-\u201990s Geocities web design, and a high tolerance for incoherent rambling. The saving grace of this experience was realizing that for every weird End Times website advocating Hagee\u2019s \u201cJubilee\u201d prophecies, there was also a weird End Times website angrily denouncing the scheme in favor of some competing grand theory of premillennial dispensationalist numerology. (I briefly considered offered to mediate between these warring factions as a disinterested third party, but I realized that any such talk of \u201cpeacemaking\u201d would lead them all to conclude that I was a tool of the Antichrist.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I suppose Hagee\u2019s new emphasis on \u201cmodules of 50 years\u201d is a bit less astrologically bonkers than his earlier obsession with \u201cmodules\u201d of \u201cBlood Moons\u201d \u2014 his idea that calendar years involving two total lunar eclipses were the secret code for understanding God\u2019s Plan for History. However goofy his ever-shifting theories may be, though, they fall under the category of \u201ctheology\u201d and not, as Moore insists, of \u201cgeopolitics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The problem is that Hagee\u2019s theology has very real \u2014 and very harmful \u2014 geopolitical implications:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGod found a man by the name of Abraham and He made a covenant with him,\u201d Hagee continued. \u201cAbraham, Isaac and Jacob, recorded in the book of Genesis, that He was going to give them a strip of real estate in the Middle East, and that piece of real estate would be theirs forever.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That \u201cpiece of real estate\u201d \u2014 according to John Hagee\u2019s theology, and to the theological view shared by most white evangelical Americans \u2014 doesn\u2019t just include all of Israel\u2019s 1967 borders, or even just that plus the occupied territories of the West Bank. What Hagee and his fellow\u00a0\u201cBible prophecy\u201d evangelicals have in mind is what they call \u201cGreater Israel\u201d \u2014 a \u201cpiece of real estate\u201d that covers everything from Syria to the Sinai and from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates. This is, for Hagee et. al., the hoped for and prophesied \u201cone-state solution\u201d for the region.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a weird and recklessly destabilizing idea, and one that seems dangerously comfortable with something very much like ethnic cleansing. But at least Hagee has the decency not to pretend that he supports this idea because of some feigned concern \u201cfor the Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnnie Moore wants to pretend that &#8220;Bible prophecy&#8221; folklore has nothing to do with white evangelicals&#8217; support for Trump&#8217;s announcement on Jerusalem. A quick look at any white evangelical media shows that Johnnie Moore is full of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[238,28,240],"class_list":["post-35805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicals","tag-left-behind","tag-religious-right","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Court evangelical makes ludicrous claim about his support for Jerusalem policy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Johnnie Moore wants to pretend that &quot;Bible prophecy&quot; folklore has nothing to do with white evangelicals&#039; support for Trump&#039;s announcement on Jerusalem. 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A former managing editor of Prism magazine, Fred worked in the parachurch nonprofit world for a decade and then for a decade in the newspaper biz. He began blogging in 2002. In 2003 he began writing a review of the best-selling Left Behind series. Eight years later he still hasn\u2019t finished reviewing the second book of that series and the experience has left him a broken shell of a man. Fred knows the difference between the possessive \u201cits\u201d and the contraction \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d and he is acutely bothered when others mistakenly confuse the two, yet he himself just kind of instinctively types the apostrophe whether or not it belongs there. Some feel this is his greatest hypocrisy, but those who know him better know better. He\u2019s guilty of much greater hypocrisies. Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. You can reach him via email at slacktivist at hotmail dot com.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/author\/fredclark1\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}