DeSantis campaign ad features Christian nationalist pastor with antisemitic views

[LetMyPeopleVote]

DeSantis wants all Jews to convert to christianity.

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https://forward.com/fast-forward/518446/ron-desantis-ad-christian-nationlist-pastor-antisemitism-jews/

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in a television ad for his reelection bid, featured a controversial pastor who shamed Jews for not converting to Christianity.

In the ad, titled “Results,” Pastor Larry Jinks of First Baptist Church of St. James City, Florida, praises DeSantis for protecting the right of religious congregations “to worship together, in person,” during the pandemic. Jinks has a history of inflammatory rhetoric, including saying it’s a “shame” Jews rejected Jesus as their own messiah.

“It’s a shame that the Jews, who should know better, reject their own Messiah (who fulfilled everyone of their prophecies) still believe that they need sacrifices and the Temple to sacrifice them in,” Jinks wrote on Facebook in April. “Nonetheless, because of their rejection they will move forward with that plan.” The statement was made in response to a Jerusalem Post op-ed about rebuilding the Temple.

Jinks also criticized the pope for advocating for unity between Jews, Christians and Muslims. “We are called to be at odds with any religion that does not acknowledge Jesus as the Prince of Peace and the only way to the Father,” he added......

The 60-second commercial started airing nationwide on Sept. 6. Jinks confirmed that he was approached by the DeSantis campaign to appear in the video. “I was honored to do so,” Jinks wrote on Facebook. “I was happy as a Christian to do it,” he told the Pine Island Eagle.

[walkingman]

1. That should be popular in the Bible Belt....this stuff seems to never get old.

[bronxiteforever]

2. Kick & recommend for visibility

[keithbvadu2]

3. Would that be the republican Christ who shipped off the multitudes rather than provide them with loa

Would that be the republican Christ who shipped off the multitudes rather than provide them with loaves and fishes?

[LoisB]

4. "DeSantis wants all Jews to convert to christianity." Why? He has no idea what "Christianity" is.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. There are groups who believe converting Jews to christianity will hasten the rapture

There are groups who believe that converting Jews will speed up the rapture. I have a friend whose daughter was targeted by a school club with a teacher as a sponsor who encouraged this crap. My friend was on the board of our Temple at the time and it was not long before the ADL visited this school and alerted the district about this crap. This club was quickly disbanded.

TFG and Deathsantis likes messianic Jews who are not considered to be Jews by all regular Jewish congregations

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/jewish-journalist-nails-trump-the-only-jews-he-likes-are-jews-for-jesus/

Root, however, is a messianic Jew, or as he's described himself in the past, a "Jew turned evangelical Christian."

Writing for Haaretz, Kaplan says that before Trump, no U.S. president would have endorsed a messianic Jew as someone to speak for American Jews.

Every Jewish denomination has rejected the assertion that ethnic Jews who accept Jesus as the Jewish Messiah and the son of God remain Jewish. Many regard the concept of Messianic Judaism as a manipulative method of proselytizing and converting Jews to Christianity. The battle over whether Messianic Jews – also known as “Jews for Jesus” – should be permitted to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return has been waged for decades in Israeli courts.
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But Trump and his White House, which is more enthusiastically supported by and closely bound to evangelical Christian organizations than any preceding administration, hasn’t hesitated to include and embrace Messianic Jews, who are part of that evangelical community. While there is no data on the specific voting patterns of Messianic Jews, anecdotal evidence that they hew to the same political views as their evangelical fellow travellers points to the fact that they are among the most “loyal” Jews Trump can find.

Kaplan goes on to point out that during a meeting with 40 evangelical pastors and televangelists back in 2015, among the group praying for then-candidate Trump was Messianic Rabbi Kirt Schneider. In a now-infamous video of the group laying their hands on Trump in prayer, Schneider places his hand on Trump’s face and declares, “The only two nations that have ever been in a relationship with God are Israel and the United States of America.”

DeathSantis is following in TFG's footprints

[LoisB]

7. Very interesting. Thank you. Jews who don't believe in Judaism.

[Phoenix61]

5. This isn't true.

“Invoking George Soros, the Democratic funder and Holocaust survivor, DeSantis last month suspended state attorney Andrew Warren and mocked him as a “Soros-backed state attorney” over his refusal to prosecute charges related to abortion and gender affirming care for minors.“
No case had come before him. He signed a letter along with many other prosecutors.