That would be a weird kind of Christians, the classical kind would want “promised land” to be Christian and consider “God’s chosen people” to have been extended to them all.
And there are still Arab Christians, Orthodox and Maronite, mostly on the other side.
So nah, that’s not it. Just racism maybe, but that’s not religion.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Israelis are Atheists. Zionism is an Atheist movement.
Theodor Herzl was an atheist.
Israel’s first PM Ben Gurion was a hardcore atheist.
Israel is a consequence of Liberalism. It is pure Western secular colonialism nothing more.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org 1 year ago
Zionism is an ostensibly secular movement. Secularity is not atheism. Pretext is not motivation.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
No Zionism is very much is an Atheistic movement. It does not define Jewishness as a religion but as a race. And they basically believe Jews are the Ubermensch. This is why early Zionists were booted out of Germany by their religiously Jewish counterparts… Zionism is a classic story of settler-colonialism inspired by European Liberalism.
Haaretz - How Israel Went From Atheist Zionism to Jewish State
BussyGyatt@feddit.org 1 year ago
I’d like to see a primary source over this, but this opinion gives me something to think about.