The really interesting question is how Evangelicals came to become so pro-Zionist, given their history of anti-Semitism.  A lot of this seems to be not for love of Israel or Jews, per se, but because they see the re-establishment of Israel as the fulfilling of a biblical prophesy required before Armageddon and the Second Coming can happen.  The evangelical paradigm is not geared to a notion of historical progress, but rather of sinful man seriously screwing up and needing to be rescued from his own folly by divine intervention and providence.  The Pope Benedict critique of "modernism" as a peculiarly atheistic conceit that man is the author of his own destiny appears to be similar.  I don't know enough about Mormonism to be able to comment on whether it also adopts a similar paradigm.

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