British columnist Tim Stanley claims in The Telegraph that “Trump’s reckless Iran war is underpinned by bad theology.” And he says a “a strange reading of the Bible by some evangelical Protestants is worryingly influential on this administration’s foreign policy.”
Stanley’s claims repeat a 45-year-old cliché that American evangelicals want Mideast conflict as a perquisite for Christ’s return. But the Iran War is possibly America’s first war in which Christianity and theology are largely irrelevant.
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