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A Warning about Christian Zionism and its MAGA-Aligned Peddlers (with Tihomir Kukolja)
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John Hagee calls it prophecy. The White House Faith Office treats it as orthodoxy. We call it weaponized eschatology — and it is doing real damage to the gospel, to American evangelicalism, and to real human beings on the ground.
In this conversation with Tihomir Kukolja, former Executive Director of the Forum for Leadership and Reconciliation, we examine Christian Zionism from the ground up: what it is, who is driving it, and why collapsing the distinction between the Jewish people and the modern nation-state of Israel is not faithful end-times theology — it is Christian nationalism with a prophecy chart attached.
Two things are not up for debate here: antisemitism is wrong, and Israel has a right to exist and defend herself. What IS up for debate is whether any modern nation-state — including the United States and Israel — earns a pass on justice because John Hagee drew it into a dispensational timeline.
In this conversation:
What Zionism is — and what Christian Zionism specifically is
How Christian Zionism functions as a form of Christian nationalism
Key figures driving it: John Hagee, CUFI, Franklin Graham, Mike Huckabee, Paula WhiteH
How dispensational end-times theology converts U.S. military operations into prophetic fulfillment — and why that logic produces holy war
What Zechariah 12 and Revelation 21 actually say — and what they cannot mean
The four concrete harms: a distorted gospel, macho military Christianity, self-fulfilling prophecy wars, and the betrayal of indigenous Palestinian Christians
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