Posted on 03/22/2008 12:45:52 PM PDT by Pharmboy
As a prominent evangelical pastor based in San Antonio, you were recently catapulted into national controversy when you endorsed Senator John McCain for president. Is it true that McCain actively sought your endorsement? It’s true that McCain’s campaign sought my endorsement.
How did you feel when critics called you a Catholic-basher and said McCain should reject your endorsement? My statements regarding the Catholic Church have been grossly mischaracterized. I never called the Catholic Church “the anti-Christ” or a “false cult system.” I was referring to those Christians who ignore the Gospels.
What about your observation in a recent book that “most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews”? What I was trying to express was the fact that Christian anti-Semitism — both Catholic and Protestant — contributed to an environment in which Nazi racial anti-Semitism could flourish.
But why bring all of that up now? ’Cause most of the world don’t know it. Christians don’t know it at all.
Two years ago, you founded Christians United for Israel , an influential lobbying group that has won accolades from many Jewish leaders. I’m trying to do something beneficial for the state of Israel and the Jewish people. It’s the right thing to do. If you take the Jewish contribution away from Christianity, there would be no Christianity.
That’s a touching sentiment, but some are concerned that the Zionism of American evangelicals stems from self-interest. Isn’t your involvement in Israel based on a desire to speed the second coming of Jesus? Our support of Israel has nothing to do with any kind of “end times” Bible scenario.
You’re not just sitting around waiting for the Rapture? No.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You seem upset, there is no reason to be so angry.
By the way I never heard of Hagee until this little thing was brought up by the press, so I’m not up on him and I really don’t care to learn about him.
“Catholic doctrine allows for the recognition of any valid baptism”
Here is a little more on their Mormon answer.
>”Summing up, we can say: The Baptism of the Catholic Church and that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints differ essentially, both for what concerns faith in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in whose name Baptism is conferred, and for what concerns the relationship to Christ who instituted it. As a result of all this, it is understood that the Catholic Church has to consider invalid, that is to say, cannot consider true Baptism, the rite given that name by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.”<
Taken from:
L’Osservatore Romano
Weekly Edition in English
1 August 2001, page 4
L’Osservatore Romano is the newspaper of the Holy See.
You might want to pray for discernment on that score, too. I don't give anyone power over me to change my happy mood.
Your post 97 sounded angry to me, especially since the anger and insulting tone was directed at me
"I sometimes like bluntness when it comes to God stuff."
Maybe I should cut you some slack for not knowing what you like -- in case it's "that time if the month". :)
That’s the point. They have a different understanding of the Blessed Trinity than orthodox Christianity. Therefore, their baptisms are invalid...
I really have no idea what is going on with you, or what has made you so angry.
“That’s the point. They have a different understanding of the Blessed Trinity than orthodox Christianity. Therefore, their baptisms are invalid...”
I really liked what was said in the last two paragraphs of the page at the Assembly of God link in post 87.
I thought the last paragraph especially was descriptive of the threat by cults, to all of us.
Assemblies of God http://pentecostalevangel.ag.org/Articles2002/4579_spencer.cfm
>>I do not have any more disdain for Catholics than I do for Mormons. I do however, hold much disdain for the arrogant.<<
There is nothing nor any one more arrogant than a human being telling an organization how to conduct their business. Libs do that.
Since your arrogance precededs you, perhaps you don’t like yourself very much. That’s okay. I’ll say a prayer for you and others like you.
The NY Slimes tries to damn by association. No surprise there. Also no surprise is, it tries to damn both the Rev Hagee and Senator McCain.
Why do you tell such vicious, hateful lies about Roman Catholics?
Did a Catholic steal your prom date?
Poison with a smily-face: how duplicitous.
How shrewd of you to trust the word of the LA Times!
Comes across as a very decent man in the interview. Not a hater, not an anti-Semite, not banking on the rapture.
Sorry lefties, you got no goods on this guy. The equivalence argument will get you precisely nowhere.
Not in this article, anyway.
Oh, you mean there’s NOT a full moon out there? Oops! :)
:)
You may be close to the Unified Field Theory of Deborah Solomon’s unrelenting misery.
That’s the way I read it...
One: Who is Jesus?
Two: What must one do to be saved?
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