The cult mantra is:
The moral responsibility of evangelical, Bible-believing Christians was clear - stand with God's 'chosen' people, because God was on the side of those who 'blessed' Israel.
Stephen Sizer, Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armegeddon? (Leicester: 2004) Preface
Dispensational Christian Zionism, which is the dominant form of Christian Zionism in America, with its teachings on rapture of the church, the rebuilding of the temple and imminent battle of Armageddon, is pervasive with the mainline evangelical, charismatic and independent denominations including the Assemblies Of God, Pentecostal, and Southern Baptists, as well as many of the independent mega-churches.
Stephen Sizer, “Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?” (Leicester: 2004), Page 23.
3. Many of us assumed that Christian Zionism exists in fundamentalist and Evangelical churches only. Upon closer observation, we discovered that in reality Christian Zionism has permeated Christians within mainline churches as well among Catholics and the Orthodox in various level and forms. It is an unconscious and superficial response to any Bible reading by people who have not the benefit of theological education or have not studied the Bible carefully and so accept things uncritically simply because they are written in the Bible. This means that our problem is not only with extremist evangelicals; it is with good hearted but ignorant Christians who need to be informed and educated.
Ateek, Naim, et al editors. “Challenging Christian Zionism: Theology, Politics and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict” (London:2005) Page 16.
. . .however even non-Christians can be zionist. . . since support for a jewish state is the tenants of Zionism . . . .so support for modern day Israel is support for Zionism. . .
Walter Riggans interprets the term [Christian Zionist] in an overtly political sense as 'any Christian who supports the Zionist aim of the sovereign State of Israel, its army, government, education etc., but it can be describe a Christian who claims to support the State of Israel'. (7)
Stephen Sizer, “Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?” (Leicester: 2004), Page 21.