“FOLLOWING YOFFIE’s lead, Democratic activists desperate to find a Republican counterpart to Wright, focused their fire on Hagee. They attacked him for anti-homosexual remarks he has made. And they grossly distorted remarks he made on historical Christian anti-Semitism to portray him as an enemy of the Catholic church. Then too, they attacked him for a sermon he gave where he argued that the Holocaust was God’s way of getting the Jews to Israel and so absurdly implied that a man who has devoted his professional life to improving Jewish-Christian relations, ending Evangelical Christian drives to convert Jews and supporting Israel is an anti-Semite.
The Democratic Jewish charge against Hagee compelled McCain to reject Hagee’s endorsement, and so drove another wedge between McCain and the Republican voting Christian Right. It also successfully created an illusion of symmetry between Wright and Hagee.”
Yep. Even a lot of Freepers fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Hagee is not out-of-the-maistream. He is also not anti-Semite or anti-Catholic.
Heartfelt thanks to Ms. Glick from this Catholic for her understanding of this situation and to Benedict XVI for his understanding of it. The sooner that Ohlmert and his party depart permanenly from power in favor of Likud the better. The sooner that Ahmadinejad departs this earth the better.
Excellent piece from Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post.
American jewish electoral behavior remains one of the most contradictory elements of politics. That should change for the better this year.
And kudos to Pope Benedict for telling Ahmadinejad to go shtt in his asshat.
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I’m a Catholic. I usually agree with the Catholic League, but I thought they overreacted to Hagee’s endorsement of McCain, and I thought Hagee’s apology was just fine. It was not weasel worded like most such apologies.
I don’t expect Baptist ministers to endorse the Catholic Church, although I hope we can work together on matters we agree on, such as the right to life. Hagee fell for the liberal Jewish line that Pius XII and the papacy are enemies of Israel, but he corrected himself, which is more than you can say about the usual leftist suspects who spread these lies.
As for Benedict XVI, maybe they should elect him President of Israel, because he sure understands the politics of the situation better than “Olmert-Livni-Barack-Yishai.”
John Hagee doesn't even proselytize Jews. This was supposed to be the one big issue with chr*stian Zionists. But that wasn't good enough for Jewish liberals. Jewish liberals even discovered a previously very well hidden love for the Catholic Church in order to bash him.
Jewish liberals hate Hagee and (to a lesser degree) other chr*stian Zionists because the still see Jews as Biblical Israelites rather than as left wing free-thinking dissidents to chr*stianity whose persecution is the number one historical reason for "tolerance," "pluralism," and "multiculturalism." This is why there has been such a massive campaign to destroy the memory of Sinai (whose 3320th anniversary is next week) and replace it with Auschwitz, even to the point of criminalizing disbelief in it (and it is only fundamental religious truths whose denial is criminalized).
Hagee, chr*stian Zionists, Noachides, and (please G-d) Orthodox Jews still define Jewishness by the original Torah standards and see history as moving to a pre-destined end under G-d's guidance to the Kingdom of G-d on earth when there will be no need for secular democracy or "freedom of religion" because all false religions will have been forsaken for the glorious and obvious Truth. The "liberal Zionist" vision of Israel as a secular democratic state born out of persecution by "religious fanatics" and whose number one goal is voting rights for Arab women is absolutely pathetic in comparison.
Let it be noted that, while he believes J*sus is the Jewish messiah, Hagee has actually been attacked as a heretic by other chr*stians (including here at FR) because he believes there is no official "messiah" until all the Davidic prophecies have been fulfilled (in comparison to traditional chr*stianity, which holds that all messianic prophecies were fulfilled two thousand years ago in a "spiritual" (non-literal) manner. But liberal Jews don't simply object to J*sus as a messiah--they reject the very idea of a real Davidic messiah who rules the world and compels all peoples to forsake false "gxds" for the True One. They have twisted the meaning of Jewishness to make it seem that Judaism's very quintessence is the freedom to practice idolatry and atheism.
No wonder "liberal Zionists" hate Hagee, chr*stian Zionists, and Noachides. We know Israel's true identity and it ain't Einstein. It's more like Caleb the Theocratic Warrior-Goatherd!
Shame on AIPAC but they're a bunch of liberal Democrat lap dogs anyway.
Spot on Hagee from Caroline Glick
The polls say that 60+ percent of Jews are supporting Obama. That’s the Yoffie contingent who think the real meaning of Jewish is vote left and beware of Christians.
Although I'm not Catholic, I am awed at the process, signaled by the White smoke, that brings to leadership the right man for the time. I am enthralled with Pope Benedict XVI.
Correction: it isn't a Baptist Church, but a United Church of Christ congregation.
Hagee earned his own history. None gave it to him. His own acts and deeds will be remembered. I stop here and do not record my own reflections on him.
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