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Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler" (Paging Joe Lieberman!)
On March 16, 2003, on the eve of the United States' invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist. In his sermon, "The Final Dictator," Hagee described the Antichrist as a seductive figure with "fierce features." He will be "a blasphemer and a homosexual," the pastor announced. Then, Hagee boomed, "There's a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people. It suggests that this man [the Antichrist] is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx."
This "fierce" gay Jew, according to Hagee, would "slaughter one-third of the Earth's population" and "make Adolph Hitler look like a choirboy."
Hear Pastor Hagee's latest Judeophobic, anti-gay rant in this video, created by Bruce Wilson of Talk2Action.org
Exposed here for the first time, Hagee's comments identifying the Antichrist as a partly Jewish homosexual arrive in the wake of a furor the pastor provoked by describing the Holocaust as an act of God. Hagee's chilling sermon about the Holocaust prompted Sen. John McCain to reject the preacher's support, an unexpected turnabout after McCain spent over a year soliciting his endorsement.
Days after McCain's rejection, I reported that a key McCain ally, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, planned to deliver the keynote speech at Hagee's upcoming Christians United For Israel (CUFI) summit. As the story exploded into the mainstream press, pressure mounted on Lieberman to withdraw.
But Lieberman stayed the course, declaring in a prepared statement, "Pastor Hagee has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism and building bridges between Christians and Jews... I will go to the CUFI Summit in July and speak to the people who have come to Washington from all over our country to express their support of America and Israel, based on our shared eternal values and our shared contemporary challenges in the war against terrorism."
Lieberman will be joined at CUFI's conference by Rep. Elliot Engel, a Democratic congressman from New York with a fairly progressive voting record. On Thursday, May 29, I asked Engel's press secretary, Joseph O'Brien, if Engel still planned to attend Hagee's gathering in light of his remarks about the Holocaust. O'Brien told me Engel would respond shortly. So far, Engel has said nothing.
Engel is slated to speak on CUFI's "Middle East Briefing" panel this July. He will be joined on the panel by Republican Rep. Mike Pence, Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist Bill Kristol, and Christian right activist Gary Bauer.
Perhaps these Hagee allies could not fathom that a zealous "supporter" of Israel like Hagee could also be an anti-Semite. They may have believed, as conservative Jewish columnist Jeff Jacoby apparently did, that Hagee's remarks on the Holocaust, as jarring as they were, were theologically correct, and therefore excusable. "As anyone even fleetingly familiar with the Hebrew Bible knows," Jacoby wrote, "it is not 'crazy,' let alone anti-Semitic, to believe that Jewish suffering can be a punishment from God."
But now...
But now that Hagee's political allies have listened to the preacher's sermon identifying the Antichrist as a homosexual Jew, how can they still share a stage with him? Is attributing Jewish ancestry to the Man of Sin not anti-Semitism in its most classical form? Are the conspiratorial screeds of Nesta Webster,Henry Ford, and David Duke not replete with passages disturbingly similar to this most recently revealed jeremiad of Hagee and to many of his past sermons?
Hagee's allies must ask themselves what price they are willing to pay for the backing of his political empire. All of them diminish themselves by standing by side. But those who are Jewish like Lieberman, and who have highlighted their faith to enhance their moral authority, must know now that the price of entering Hagee's kingdom is their soul.
No more excuses. All elected officials must withdraw from Hagee's upcoming summit.
Update: Did you know that God tricked the Florida Jews into supporting George W. Bush in 2000? Pastor John Hagee explains:
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Someone needs to tell Hagee that Jesus was 100% Jewish!
This guy is very powerful and influential among the roughly 26% that think President Bush is doing a great job as president. I overheard one of those people this weekend enlightening a group to the fact that the end of the world is going to coincide with this year's presidential election if Senator Obama wins. Amazing.
HOW DOES SOMEONE GET INTO THIS FRAME OF MIND?
Its simple, Hagee is himself the anti=christ. Really he is.
We have to thank nut cases such as Haggee and Wright. If not for organized religion, we'd have mentally deranged criminals roaming the streets of America en masse.
Religion is the opium for the masses. I thank them that these religious idiots(unbeknownst to them) have in effect made us all more safer. Keep up the good work!!!
Religion is the opium for the masses. If not for organized religion, we'd have rapists, murderers, and other mentally deranged people roaming the streets of America en masse. Count your blessings, and be thankful for nut cases like Pastor Hagee, Wright, et.al.
Oh well... Crackpots say the damnedest things. Keep giving them press and airtime though...
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Bill Moyers as done two shows on the pestilent Mr. Hagee and the power he has gained among the Republicans; both shows well worth watching, informative and frightening. Hagee is mirror representing a considerable sector of the American public; pathetic, stupid, fat, bigoted and sliming around in the middle pages of the bible trying to justify their confusion in and fright of a new century in which they evidently feel (and are) out of place. They can't wait to vote for McCain (along with all of those disaffected Clinton supporters I guess)! What a lot of work we have to do until November.
“As I live,
saith the LORD GOD,
Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done,
thou and thy daughters.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom,
pride,
fulness of bread, and
abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters,
[Inhospitality] neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw good.”
Ezekiel 16:48-50
Sounds like Hagee to me.
Wait...wait...this says it was about pride & gluttony & not taking care of the poor and needy...i don't understand...Christians are always telling me it was because of the gays...
/sarcasm
Well,...those "christians" are bearing FALSE WITNESS.
i don't even know how to reply to this.
The minute any church expresses a political opinion,
THEY SHOULD BE TAXED
Amen!
Unlike, say, Jesus, who was entirely Jewish.
Hasn't McCain thrown this Rev. Hagee under the bus already and denounced his statements? So why what Rev. Hagee's saying now is national news?
Where is FAUX noise and the MSM no where to be found, but this morning Howard Kurtz said we are going after Sen. Obama, so it up to us the truth crew to send this to every news out let there is, and it need to be put on youtube right away.
Like God (George Burns) told John Denvers character in the movie OH GOD.....GOD tells Denver "Tell the Evangelist I said to SHUT UP"
Now this woun't get played on cnn, msnbc., and we all know not fox. This is Mccain's man.Again I ask who is his pastor. Somebody tell me please. What's the name of his church?
And people wonder why I hate religion in all forms. All of this energy and pain over fairy tales. I'd laugh if it weren't so sad...
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