If one examines the baseline beliefs of many Evangelical Christians when it comes to the support of Israel, you find that they base their beliefs in the idea that the end of the world and second coming of Christ will be signaled by a massive conflagration in the Middle East. Therefore, according to their theology, anything that precipitates Armageddon is acceptable.
In the same context, opposition by such groups to efforts to control global warming is based on the belief that with the arrival of the end of the world coming sooner rather than later, worrying about the environment is a waste of time and effort.
Accepting both of these ideas at their face value, I then have to wonder why these same people get so upset over federal and state deficits. If "the end" is coming soon, then what does it matter how big the national debt becomes? If they are consistent in their beliefs, then their motto ought to be: "Spend like there's not tomorrow!"
Perhaps they think that since the cause of much of the national debt (and state debts, too) comes from social and foreign aid programs that help people who do not share the same religious, ethical and moral beliefs as the Evangelicals, then it is wrong to add to the debt.
In my old age I have decided that the only true test of a religion is whether or not it can admit that there are other ways to salvation besides its own.
