RE: “Hitler’s killing 6 million Jews was God’s idea”
By that, I believe Hagee meant to say that God’s PROVIDENCE and SOVEREIGN WILL permits both good and evil to happen in this world for reasons ONLY HE KNOWS and ONLY HE ALLOWS.
The death of 6 million Jews is as much part of God’s overriding providence as the 250,000 who perished in one day when the Asian Tsunami struck.
Hagee just articulated what he meant poorly and a liberal rag like Lawrence O’Donnell just ran with it, refusing to understand what he actually meant... which is what a typical liberal usually does.
“which is what a typical liberal usually does.”
Liberal theology is rather simplistic.
To the extent they think about the Divine, it’s fuzzy notions of a dad-like being that punishes them for stuff or that they can ask for toys that they heard about when they were 8.
Subtle issues like how HaShem has used terrible people (e.g, Pharoah, Haman (boo!), and Hitler (double boo!)) to fulfil His will escapes them.