{"id":402412,"date":"2019-04-02T17:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/god-and-u-s-foreign-policy-an-analysis\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:40:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:40:36","slug":"god-and-u-s-foreign-policy-an-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/god-and-u-s-foreign-policy-an-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"God and U.S. Foreign Policy: an Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And Elohim Created Adam by William Blake, c. 1795<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mr. Pompeo\u2019s Unoriginal Assertion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, here we go again. God is back at work in support of the foreign policy of the United States. In fact, this time around, God has apparently gone so far as to rig the 2016 U.S. presidential election (and you thought it was the Russians!) in order to assure Donald Trump\u2019s election. And why did the deity do so? To protect Israel from the bad guys in Teheran.<\/p>\n

I know that many readers will find this scenario pretty far-fetched, but we do have it all on good authority\u2014U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\u00a0Pompeo\u2019s revelation came<\/a>\u00a0in late March during an interview with the Christian Broadcast Network in Jerusalem. Asked if \u201cit is possible God raised Donald Trump to be President in order to protect Israel from the Iranian menace,\u201d Pompeo readily agreed. \u201cAs a Christian, I certainly believe that\u2019s possible,\u201d he said, and then transformed a possibility into a sure thing. He continued, \u201cI am confident that the Lord is at work here when he sees the remarkable history of the faith in this place [Israel] and the work that our [U.S.] administration\u2019s done to make sure that this democracy in the Middle East, that this Jewish state, remains.\u201d Note the contradiction here\u2014the bit about democracy and Jewish state. You can\u2019t have a genuine democracy exclusively for one group (Jews) amidst a sea of others (Palestinians). However, if as Pompeo suggests, his God favors democracy…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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