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My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Eleanor Yarniga.

In today's episode, we talked about the Christian

right and the role of Christian Zionist ideology in the minds of key figures in the Trump

administration and the decision to launch the US and Israeli attack on Iran. We chatted about

why the religious beliefs of US policymakers are often under-discussed. Whether it's conceivable that

Donald Trump is undergoing some sort of religious turn under the influence of the various

religious fanatics around him. And we talked about the different religious strains of Christian

right thinking that exist within the administration, from Calvinists to Catholic integralists.

And we also talked about Christian

Zionism and how attitudes towards Israel and the role designated to Jewish people in the

apocalyptic scenarios of the Christian right have changed over time. And finally, we touched on

the extraordinary spat between the administration and the Vatican and Pope Leo.

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Before we get to today's interview, just a quick word on our friends over at The Breakdown, who have just dropped the third issue of their magazine titled Airborne.

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