The Whore of Babylon

Apart from the £1.5 billion bung, why would the DUP want to support a government committed to Brexit, given the likely dire effects on Northern Ireland?

It may be relevant that one faction of the DUP claims the EU is controlled by the Luciferian global elite. They point to the EU's symbol of Europa riding a bull, which is according to them quite clearly the whore of Babylon "sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy". This beast (found in the Book of Revelations) represents the world government led by the Antichrist.

Evangelicals see other indications of the demon princes' plans for world subjugation under cover of the EU - in particular a poster (later withdrawn) promoting the European Parliament which clearly shows the EU rebuilding the Tower of Babel.

Evangelical Tories in the UK don't openly commit to these views, though Tory MP David Burrowes said voting Leave was a Christian duty, Pastor Paul Hedger branded the EU as anti-Christian, saying "my responsibility is to help people see things the way God does", and Giles Fraser, a Guardian columnist, exhorted "the laity and other clergy to persuade people" to vote Leave.

It doesn't all go one way, however. Christians who voted Remain may well have been led to their decision by reflections similar to those of Mark Woods, editor of Christian Today:

Would Britain be "better off" outside the EU? It's impossible to say. But that is not, perhaps, the right question. Arguably a better one is, "Would the nations of the EU be more prosperous, more just and more secure with Britain inside it?"