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Frank Schaeffer: "Christian-Zionism" Is Trouble for Israel and the USA

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Some of the nuttiest American religious leaders today (and in the past) have latched on to one form or another of Christian Zionism. These days Reverend John Hagee (pastor of a mega church with thousands of members in San Antonio) is a leading Far Right Evangelical and ardent fan of Israeli expansion into the disputed West Bank.

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