Christian Zionism

Second pr- And then, uh, midterm, I think what's gonna happen is a civil war, uh, which will lead to the balkanization of the United States.

In the long term, what I think is gonna happen, okay, and I'm-- we're, we're talking like maybe twenty years from now, uh, the United States will become a Christian AI theocracy, okay? So Christian plus AI.

And, uh, why I'm doing it in Austin is I think that Austin will be the new center of gravity in the United States.

I think what's gonna happen over the next twenty years is that the center of gravity will shift from the coast to the center, to, to the heartland.

I shouldn't have, like, fucked so many porn stars."

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"I shouldn't have, you know, um, you know, started these wars overseas." But now, okay, I'm g- I have a come to Jesus moment, and I want to be the best Christian possible, and I want everyone else to be the best Christian possible.

So under Trump, you will have this massive, um, push of Christian values.

Today we have a bit of a debate.

We're going to be debating the question, do Australian Christians have an obligation to Israel?

I'm a Christian and I'm a Zionist.

And you sound like you're a Zionist as well.

So there's this distinction between the promise and the flesh.

No one comes to the Father except through me.

And I think that that is a very poignant message that we as Christians are called to profess, which is the gospel of Jesus Christ, which saves.

This is

So there are, you know, in the book we talk about sort of religious end timers who wanna hasten about the return of the Messiah, who kind of believe that they will be saved by, by the grace of their faith.

Those are the, you know, evangelical Christian Zionists who are a very potent political force in the United States.

That's, um, z- you know, Zionists in Israel who are, are a potent political [laughs] force.

So these are, are real groups of people with real power.

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if you, if you look at, um, this sort of awkward Frankenstein-like coalition that he has cobbled together and that, that, that brought him to power, it contains all of these elements, right? It, the massive funding coming from Silicon Valley and Elon Musk in particular, um, but certainly not exclusively.

Then you look at the fact that he, um, you know, appointed Mike Huckabee, a, a, a Christian Zionist to be his ambassador to Israel, the way he has understood that Christian Zionists, um, are a key part of his base, um, and the centrality of sort of, uh, advancing messianic Zionist narratives in, um, in Israel dating back to his, his first term when he m- moved the, the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

That was huge in the evangelical community.

I think they're still a minority.

You know, there's no question that still the support, like overall within the Jewish community is pretty strong, stronger than i-in, within any other group, except in certain cases, Christian Zionists.

They're still Zionists by and large, but there is a real significant, very significant minority of Jews in this country, you know, that are-- have, have, you know, uh, rejected Zionism.

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