While most of you on this site do not need the following, many of our friends and acquaintances do. So here goes.
Suffice that Old Testament stories such as the Exodus and Adam & Eve, have been debunked on numerous grounds, including Archaeology, Genetics & Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology & Paleontology, Geology & Stratigraphy, and Egyptology, they still are being treated as historical facts and wield great power and influence by powerful people within the United States, including all three branches of the government, conservative news platforms, religious leaders, and just the average Joe on social media.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee spoke in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on February 22, 2026. Carlson said that according to the Bible, the descendants of Abraham would receive land that today would include much of the Middle East, including parts of modern-day Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. He quoted from Genesis Chapter 15 and asked Huckabee if Israel had a right to that land.
Huckabee responded: "It would be fine if they took it all."
On September 15, 2025, CNBC reported that he also said "It was 4,000 years ago here in this city, on Mount Moriah, where God chose His people. He not only chose a people, but He chose a place, and then He chose for the people in this place a purpose. The people were the Jewish people. The place was Israel."
He then invoked the biblical blessing/curse framing: "Those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed."
Hundreds of complaints from U.S. soldiers have been aired regarding high-ranking officers reportedly told troops that the war is "all part of God's divine plan" to bring about the return of Jesus Christ.
We should never forget that George Bush Jr. said that Jesus told him to bomb Iraq.
That so many powerful people today in our "modern" world can so easily use the Bible, despite its many contradictions, to cause so much death and destruction and are so successful at manipulating the largest voting block of voters into their camp is breathless. The fact that 80% of evangelicals; those who claim that the Bible is perfect and was inspired by their God, proves that point.
Here is an article I published several years ago (slightly revised) on Medium that briefly highlights a few historical rebuttals to the belief that somehow Israel was given a certain piece of land, and that those who support them, will be specially blessed by their God. With the latest attacks on Iran and other middle eastern countries, it is all the more urgent.
History teaches us that whenever a people believe that something is God will, anything goes, including murder, genocide, slavery, rapes, and much, much more. They need no evidence that their cause is just or right, just faith alone to do the unthinkable.
