America’s Holy War in Iran

America’s Holy War in Iran For roughly half a century, a certain strain of American evangelical theology has taught millions of believers to read conflicts like Trump’s war with Iran not simply as geopolitics in action but as prophecy unfolding in real time. I was one of them. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized the leadership of Iran as “radical Shiite clerics” who make geopolitical decisions based on “pure theology.” That’s deeply ironic because an American combat unit commander reportedly told officers at a briefing last Monday that the war with Iran was, in fact, part o

America’s Holy War in Iran For roughly half a century, a certain strain of American evangelical theology has taught millions of believers to read conflicts like Trump’s war with Iran not simply as geopolitics in action but as prophecy unfolding in real time. I was one of them. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized the leadership of Iran as “radical Shiite clerics” who make geopolitical decisions based on “pure theology.” That’s deeply ironic because an American combat unit commander reportedly told officers at a briefing last Monday that the war with Iran was, in fact, part o