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June 20, 2025

Rational by Other Standards

The presuppositional founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the destruction of Israel to bring about the apocalypse. We are not witnessing nation-building. We are witnessing nation-saving.

For 20 years, President Donald Trump has maintained that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Much of the Western world, from European powers to American presidents, has given lip service to that idea, but has done little to restrict Tehran’s theocratic leaders from building a bomb.

Though Iran claims its nuclear program is only for civilian purposes, they have both buried it three hundred feet underground and enriched uranium far beyond the needs of civilian nuclear projects. Israel is right to act.

Notably, the “no more wars” crowd insists Israel’s efforts against Iran are part of a Neocon nation-building campaign. The “no more wars” guys and the “Iran will never get the bomb if we negotiate” guys all come from a very cynically misguided worldview.

They all presume, because they do not take religion seriously, that no one else does either. They use religion. They pull at the heartstrings of the religious for political ends. But the libertarian crowd and the progressive crowd are not, at heart, religious and do not, at heart, think anyone else is.

They all think we can just sit around and do nothing because no one wants to start a nuclear war. Iran is never going to get a bomb, and even if it does, it will be for show. So leave it alone.

Many evangelical Christians, myself included, believe in Adam and Eve. Bible believing Christians believe they were the first two people on the planet. We believe in Noah’s Ark. We really do believe a man spent about a hundred years building a boat in which he put animals and a few people and saved the animal kingdom from a global flood.

We do not think it is a myth or parable. We think it is real. We think a big fish swallowed Jonah for three days. We think Jesus really was born of a virgin, really lived, really died, and really did rise again three days later. We do not think it is hyperbole, exaggerated, made up, mythology or symbolism. We think it is real, and it shapes our whole worldview. It should also shape how we live.

In Christian eschatology, we have no idea when Jesus is coming back, and we are commanded to love our neighbors in the meantime. So, you can trust us with a nuke probably more than even a secular atheist who is under no command from an Almighty to love his neighbor.

Iran is a Shiite fundamentalist Islamic republic. Its theocratic leaders are neither secular nor cynical and are driven by a very basic belief. If they can destroy Israel, they can cause the Mahdi to reveal himself and escalate the arrival of paradise. It is a presuppositional event in their governance.

Former President Barack Obama was too cynical to understand that just because he didn’t believe, others might. The “no more nation-building” guys are just as cynical.

Iran is literally the only nation on planet Earth you cannot trust with a nuclear weapon because the presuppositional founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the destruction of Israel to bring about the apocalypse.

We are not witnessing nation-building. We are witnessing nation-saving. We are witnessing global saving. Israel is saving the entire planet from a nation that not only wants a nuke but actually wants to use the nuke for theological purposes.

You may not think Jonah got swallowed by a giant fish and lived for three days in the fish’s belly. But some people, myself included, really and truly do.

You may not think nuclear war can bring about the Second Coming. Iran does.

The institutional arrogance of the secular elite and the naive libertarians have gotten us to this point. You can tell me that for 30 years, experts have been saying Iran was on the verge of a nuke, and they have never gotten one. My response is that we know, beyond a reasonable doubt, that they want a nuke, and we know they have escalated production based on direct examinations of their program. They must be stopped.

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