The Sunday Morning Muse, September 7, 2008

I flipped the TV on this morning, and a preacher was on... andlet me just say none of what this guy was saying involved Love Thy Neighbor, or Peace be with you.

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This preacher was talking about a pedophile who raped a 5 year old girl...and at higher and higher volume, he was yelling and inciting this crowd at his church, chorusing into ..."the Bible says pedophiles should be stoned to death!"... and then... "The Bible is the AB SOL LUTE word of God!!!"

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...and in a huge leap in thought he continued at loud volume ranting about Celebrities and Hollywood types---getting caught driving drunk and getting lenient sentences... and they should be THROWN IN JAIL (yelling)---and they should STAY THERE." ( loud applause from crowd.)

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Keep in mind I've had the TV on less than 7 minutes... and now he transitioned into how we need to recruit "Christian Warriors..." and not be passive...stand up for....take back...

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WHOA....I've had enough of this. What is really going on here? Who is this Guy? Is this for real? Is this a movie? Is he nuts?

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It was John Hagee. Then the bells went off in my head. He's that Evangelical preacher who endorsed John McCain...and then McCain had to twist himself into a pretzel trying to denounce certain things the guy said about the Catholics... I never put a name with the face. I had just lumped Hagee in with my thought path of "just another Evangelical right winger," but he is sooo much more than that.

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Here are just a few of his views... there are plenty more if you want to read them. The man just scares me.

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Wikipedia:

-Despite Hagee's professed "Christian Zionist" beliefs and public support for the state of Israel, Hagee has made statements that some have interpreted as antisemitic, including blaming the Holocaust on Jews, stating that Adolf Hitler carried out a divine plan to lead Jews to form the modern state of Israel, blaming Jews for the death of Jesus, calling liberal Jews "poisoned" and "spiritually blind," and stating that the preemptive nuclear attack on Iran that he favors will lead to the deaths of most Jews in Israel.

In his book, Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World, Hagee interprets the Bible to predict that Russia and the Islamic states will invade Israel and will be destroyed by God. This will cause the antichrist, the head of the European Union, to create a confrontation over Israel between China and the West. A final battle between East and West at Armageddon will then precipitate the Second Coming of Christ.

He said in 2006, "I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are -- were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came."

In 2007, Hagee stated that he does not believe in global warming, and he also said that he sees the Kyoto Protocol as a conspiracy aimed at manipulating the U.S. economy.[21] Also, Hagee has condemned the Evangelical Climate Initiative, an initiative "signed by 86 evangelical leaders acknowledging the seriousness of global warming and pledging to press for legislation to limit carbon dioxide emissions."

Hagee calls literature such as J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter contemporary witchcraft.

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And here is the really scary part.....he's got a lot of followers.

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Hagee is the President and CEO of John Hagee Ministries, which telecasts his national radio and television ministry carried in the United States on 160 TV stations, 50 radio stations and eight networks, including The Inspiration Network (INSP) and Trinity Broadcasting Network.

The ministries can be seen and heard weekly in 99 million homes.