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 ...
The signs of the times. If God doesn’t destroy the earth again, He owes Sodom-Gomorrah an apology. For Apostasy there can be no remedy but judgment.
I am certain to a large degree that you and I would agree about most things.
Indeed.
Too bad Jerry Falwell is dead today. He too could refute all the leftist lies being told about his so-called radical “quotes.”
No argument there, friend...
For the record, I’m no fan of Hagee or any of the mega-church congregations for that matter. But, having his own words speak for him is best and he acquits himself well in what I read of this. I am also a Catholic who is aware of some of these other denominations feeling the need to criticize Catholicism in order to justify their own existence. Some of the criticism of the Catholic Church during the time of the Nazis only seems to be true if one doesn’t look deep enough. There were public and diplomatic relations maintained so that it would remain possible for the resistance and underground smuggling of Jews out of Nazi-occupied areas to continue. An honorable person sometimes has to keep up what appears to be a dishonorable public “image” in order to go on with the real work of doing what’s right.
Sure does. She’s probably thinking, “Who took my strap-on?”
It would be fun to see Romney get grilled on his cult religion that he was a Priest, Missionary, and Bishop in and that his family helped create, but it never happened.
With a vengeance!
I can’t say what she looks like, but if I ever ran into her in an alley, I would turn around and run like a bat out of hell.
Nice, playing into the liberal’s game plan. Anti Mormonism has no place in American conservatism.
Gargoil?
“Most ... do not” is actually correct subject-verb agreement. Good for Pastor Hagee, no matter what his accent sounds like :-).
seriously...I did not open the link but could this puke be any more condescending???
“’Cause most of the world don’t know it.”
What, you never speak Texan-ese?
“Ok. That doesn’t change what Hagee is. That is well documented.” ~ big’ol_freeper
Unfortunately so:
For starters Google:
Hagee says Jesus is not the only savior messiah
“Nice, playing into the liberal’s game plan. Anti Mormonism has no place in American conservatism.”
Leadership in a cult should receive at least the scrutiny of Obama and McCain and Bush in 2000.
“Ah, trying to deflect from the Obomination’s “minister”?
I hope people don’t fall for it !”
Of course... this is phony liberal moral equivalence.
Lat I checked, no member of Hagee’s church is running for President. Nothing Hagee says here is off the wall and the interview is not a softball interview at all.
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