How anti-Semitic beliefs have quietly taken hold among some evangelical Christians

[brooklynite]

Washington Post

BENSALEM, Pa. — As she cleans up the counter where the teenagers at her church’s Vacation Bible School ate their cookies and yogurt, Luba Yanko complains about the state of the country. President Trump is trying to act on Christian values, she believes. But from what she reads online, it seems that a certain group keeps getting in the way.

Trump, she says, “is surrounded by a Zionist environment with completely different values from Christians. It’s kabbalist. It’s Talmudic values. Not the word of God.”

In other words: It’s the Jews’ fault.

“Why do we have pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ values, and we do not have more freedom to protect our faith? We are persecuted now,” Yanko says about evangelical Christians like herself. “[Jews] say, ‘We’ve got America. We control America.’ That’s what I know.”

[COLGATE4]

1. Looking more like the 30's every day now.

[Runningdawg]

2. It didn't happen overnight

In the 60's my Baptist cult preached - treat them nicely, but NEVER do businesses with one and never trust them, they are NOT your friend.

[stopbush]

3. Amazing what these racist Christian fucks say they "know"

when their whole belief system is founded on make believe.

[GulfCoast66]

4. This is not new. Not new at all!

I grew up evangelical in the 70’s and 80’s.

Evangelicals need Israel to bring about their dystopian Armageddon fantasy.

They have always hated Jews.

[Wounded Bear]

5. The Catholic Church did that for centuries...

One reason that there were so many Jews in Poland and Ukraine was because Western Europe basically drove them out during the Middle Ages, culminating with the Inquisition.

There was also a Christian ban on "usury" the prohibited good Christians from lending money at interest, which is one reason the banking industry was rather heavily in Jewish hands, leading to stereotypes like Shakespeare's Shylock.

Anti-semitism goes way back.

Frankly, Evangelicals whining about persecution make cringe.