- This repulsive little man is a big time hypocrite, just like Spitzer!!!
yeah, but he's so fat, and he yells and hollers real loud, too.
- so there!
Posted on 03/13/2008 9:54:04 PM PDT by bahblahbah
After days of media misrepresentation, I feel the need to respond to slanderous media reports. The truth is I am not now nor have I ever been anti-Catholic. That has been demonstrated in a lifetime of ministry that has assisted Catholics and the Catholic Church. I have given thousands of dollars to the Catholic Church for disaster relief and have personally supported a local convent for many years. Cornerstone Church has operated a social services center that gives food and clothing daily to people who in the majority are Catholic. My wife comes from a Catholic family and millions of my viewers are Catholics.
Many in the media have mistakenly accepted characterizations of my statements, which simply are not true. I never called the Catholic Church the "anti-Christ," a "false cult system," "the apostate church" or the "great whore" of Revelations. To assert otherwise seriously misrepresents my words. When I use these terms, I am referring to those Christians who ignore the Gospels and embrace the false doctrines of Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism.
Throughout my career I have been a strong critic of Christian anti-Semitism. I have consistently criticized all Christians -- Protestant and Catholic alike -- for the sin of anti-Semitism. In fact I rarely address this topic without castigating the founder of Protestantism, Martin Luther, for the horrendous anti-Semitism he spouted towards the end of his career. It is a bitter irony that in my zeal to hold my fellow Christians accountable for our past anti-Semitism, I now find my self compared to an anti-Semite.
When I condemn anti-Semitic Christians -- Protestant and Catholics alike -- I am in no way referring to those Protestants and Catholics who have rejected this sinful belief. On the contrary, I have repeatedly praised the "righteous works" of Catholics such as Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict in rejecting anti-Semitism and taking historic steps to reconcile with the Jewish people. I have always had great love for Catholic people and great respect for the Catholic Church and hope this statement sets the record straight.
As oxymoronic a post as I can remember seeing on FR.
Thank you for posting this.
I am Catholic and I have watched Hagee for years when surfing and nothing on cable but crap.
I have never heard him say anything anti Catholic so I was confused.
I am glad he spoke up for the record.
Both, more times than I can count. Have you not been paying attention for the last decade?
He supports embryonic stem cell research.
He has said he doesn't want to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
We spent decades amassing the political strength to appoint decent judges, and he and his gang of Fourteen gave that impetus over to the Democrats in the final pass.
He supports the Global Warming Cult, which is nothing but a vehicle for world socialism.
He has been funded and sustained by none other than George Soros, the number one enemy of American liberty and self-government in the world today.
He loves Ted Kennedy and Democrats, and hates conservatives with a purple passion.
And that's just for starters.
He is the leader of those who are selling our national sovereignty down the river, maam, and no Christian should have a thing to do with it.
I like John Hagee, and don’t think him an anti-Catholic bigot.
Having said that, his judgment in the McCain matter has been horrific.
Our brother needs to repent. :-)
Any vote for a liberal is a wasted vote. And worse, it helps lay waste to our free republic.
I don’t support the doctrine of the Catholic Church, I’m Protestant. This doesn’t mean I hate you or oppose you.
When I was freshman in high school I attended a Catholic school for a while. The nuns frequently referred to Protestant students as heathens, maybe they thought we were deaf as well. You don’t believe I’m a heathen, do you?
Anyone arguing over what Hagee does or doesn’t believe is missing the point. This misinformation was put out there as a pre-emptive strike from the left. This was supposed to distract us from looking into Obama’s “pastor.”
Nevermind the fact that McCain doesn’t attend Hagee’s church(regardless of what Hagee really believes).
A little background on John Hagee: He had an affair with one of the flock, divorced his wife, split the church and formed another church in San Antonio. Now Hagee is living happily ever after! This repulsive little man is a big time hypocrite, just like Spitzer!!! Don’t listen to this “Pharisee Worm.”
He’s a strong supporter of Israel and anti-islamist. What more should he say/be?
Yes, I think you've got it. Much more than whatever Hagee may or may not have said in the past, they hate him, Catholics, and McCain, too, since none of those three are anti-theists, and they need to cover for Obama at the same time, since his pastor and "spiritual mentor" is so OBVIOUSLY a rascist!
Further, they do not percieve Obama's pastor (J.Wright) as being much of a threat to them, since what he preaches isn't actually the Gospel, so lacks real power. They'd PREFER religious teachings to come only from fellows like Wright...for it not only makes easier for them to reject, it doesn't challenge any [spiritual] forces of darkness, either.
So if they can make McCain look bad, by going out of their way a bit to make Hagee look bad [which might not be all that hard to do, after all] and stir up animosity between various other Christians at the same time, while ALSO being faithful tools of the left, then they've got what the conmen used to call a "three-fer".
yeah, but he's so fat, and he yells and hollers real loud, too.
This is as big a non-issue as it was when candidate Bush, during the 2000 campaign, accepted an invitation to speak at BJU...or was it John Ashcroft?
Anyone else remember that?! The LameStream Media made a big, fat, stinking deal about how a REPUBLICAN was going to associate himself to a Christian university by SPEAKING THERE!
Yet, they CHOOSE to freely ignore the tenets to which B. Hussein Obama subscribes by his attendance at an apparently rabid leftist preacher's church.
Premptive strike from the left is what another FREEPer on this thread called it, and they were RIGHT.
Why do we let ourselves be distracted by the idiots in the media and the left? (rendundant, I know).
Hagee disagrees theologically with Catholics and Mormons. Yee haw. He doesn't go out looking to behead them, unlike the real enemies of America.
I’m Catholic and I’m glad to hear this.
I’m assuming what he says is true and not contradicted by his past preaching.
If so, then he did need to correct what has been said and written about him, and I’m very happy that he did.
He seems to be a TV evangelist which in my book puts him somewhere between a leach and and a tapeworm on the evolutionary ladder.
Exactly. This has been twisted, spun, and turned upside down by the MSM, the dems, and all that hate Christians.
All three of them are funded by George Soros.. Duuugh..
John McLaim is funded by Soros, Tides Foundation and other ultra left Oreganizations..
What you been smokin girl?..
John Hagee statement clarifying his view of the Catholic Church - ping!
I wonder if McCain or McCain’s staff had a little heart-to-heart in private with Pastor Hagee?
I was in Catholic School in the 1950's and 1960's and no nun or priest ever said any such thing. That would have been opposed to Catholic Doctrine, which teaches that any baptized person (baptized in the name of the Trinity) is a member of Christ's Church (see doctrine here).
Most Catholics were aware of this, because in 1953, after a very public running battle with his religious superiors, Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for defiantly and disobediently preaching that Protestants were going to hell.
Furthermore, the teaching nuns since the mid-60's have (broad-brush generalization, but still) in the main been so wildly ecumenical that they've hiked their skirts and dropped any of Our Lord's teachings that made them seem too distinctively Catholic.
So, blink blink. I'm wondering when or where you went to high school. You don't have to reveal all, but I'm wondering if it was long, long ago and far, far away? Or if you perhaps mistook an ironic, bantering tone as a sober statement of doctrine?
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