Juan Cole:Ayatollah Rick Perry's Evangelical Theology of Trump as God's Chosen is just like Khamenei

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Iran and the US Come Closer: Ayatollah Rick Perry’s Evangelical Theology of Trump as God’s Chosen is just like Khamenei
JUAN COLE
11/26/2019

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So the official ideology of Iran’s ayatollahs is exactly the same as that of Rick Perry. God’s will puts leaders into office.

So I guess Ayatollah Trump and Ayatollah Khamenei are the current choices of the Man Upstairs according to these two Dominionist forms of theology.

One big difference is that Trump will be impeached and such a fate is unlikely for Khamenei. So maybe God likes him best?

The US is one of the last highly religious societies in the modern world, and Iran (whatever the people think) has one of the few theocratic forms of government. Religion has collapsed in the last 60 years in much of the world– the United Kingdom, for instance, or Montreal. Some 63% of the French report themselves non-religious, and 29% say they are outright atheists. I was talking to a person from france one time, and she sneezed. I said, “God bless you.” She shouted red-faced at me, “There is no God!” I thought, geez, it is a figure of speech.

But the theory that God wants us to have Trump and Khamenei as leaders seems to me certain to put the Americans and Iranians on a fast train to French-style secularism.


MORE:
https://www.juancole.com/2019/11/ayatollah-evangelical-khamenei.html

[dewsgirl]

1. Anthony Scaramucci has a theory on this, they are pledging

their complete and total loyalty to him.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. If the Christofascists and the Muslim fundies ever got together, we would be truly screwed.

They have so much in common but they both have to dominate the world.

[safeinOhio]

3. Different sides.

Same coin.