👀 Rapture-Pilled Realpolitik: How Evangelical Prophecy Got a Say in American Foreign Policy...
When John Hagee met John Bolton inside Donald Trump's brain, the Middle East exploded. Literally. By our count, this war began with drones, but the real payload might’ve been spiritual. As Iranian missile sites smolder and Trump tweets “GOD CHOSE ME,” a less-reported fuel behind this fire is finally getting the light it deserves: apocalyptic Christian prophecy. What if American foreign policy didn’t just emerge from CIA war rooms, defense contractor lobbyists, or Twitter—but from the pages of Revelation, as interpreted by pastors with large followings and even larger private jets? Welcome to the WTF world of prophetic geopolitics —where policy papers meet Rapture literature, and Iran might be nuked not to contain uranium but to fulfill a 19th-century Anglo-Irish priest’s nightmare vision of the end times. Prophets, Not Policy Wonks If you’re wondering what Bible verses have to do with cruise missiles, you’re already behind. For millions of evangelical Americans—and many of Trump’s...