To a first-time visitor, Cornerstone Church, in San Antonio, feels less like a house of worship than a supersized House of Blues. The evangelical megachurch seats thousands and features state-of-the-art lighting and sound systems, plus a stage-length JumboTron. The seats are more luxurious than those at many high-end movie theaters. On a recent Sunday night, the auditorium served as the locus for a small but significant moment in global politics. The near-capacity crowd gathered for a Night to Honor Israel, an annual event 43 years in the running, now held across the country but started by Cornerstone’s founder, Pastor John Hagee. Typically, the Night amounts to a restatement of evangelical Christians’ commitment to supporting Israel and its claims to the West Bank and East Jerusalem, populated…
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