Why did Evangelical Christians Change? - Page 5 - Religion, God, and Theology

I have been a Born Again, Evangelical Christian for about 40 years. The Christians never changed their view on Israel or the Jews. There was a false perception by the left that Evangelicals must hate Jews because they rejected Jesus Christ. The true, Evangelicals always supported Israel. It's the crazy Nazis and their ilk, who aren't even Christian, just in name only, who hate Jews. The Jews don't like the Evanglicals, but the Evangelicals support the Jews because they are God's chosen people.

Hi xpaddingtonx:

If you're correct, then there is no reason for my starting this thread except to show that things are different from the way I understood them. However, I think you need to go back more than 40 years. Here's an example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies

I do agree that starting around 40 to 50 years ago the views of Evangelicals did move to what you describe above, which I think is terrific.

Best wishes,
Mason

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05-24-2015 , 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth

Hi Everyone:

I think this will be a controversial post but it's something I've been wondering about for some time.

When I was a young man it was my impression that Evangelical Christians were not real happy with Jews and Israel, and the best example of this is Billy Graham bashing Jews on the Nixon tapes.

But today it's completely different and these same people, including Billy Graham's son Franklin, are now great supporters. So my question is: What brought about this dramatic change or did I misread the situation 40+ years ago?

And just so there is no misunderstanding, I'm very happy this has happened.

Best wishes,
Mason

Given he has a newspaper column, you could ask Billy Graham.

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06-04-2015 , 02:54 PM

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The emphasis today on supporting Israel by these so called Christians can be attributed to Barack Obama. Evangelicals are primary targets of conservative politicos. Obama's tif with Netanyahu has inspired conservatives use that rif to get those southern Christians to show their hate of Obama through support of Israel. Bah humbug