Metaphorically speaking, of course. Robert Weitzel has written the best essay on Hagee, his ideology, and his followers beliefs that I have yet read to date. It is exceptionally and intelligently done and Weitzel’s warning to Hagee’s Jewish supporters needs to be heard. For example
Pastor Hagee’s right-wing Jewish allies will do well to consider that after Islam is destroyed and the Temple rebuilt and Jesus comes and raptures all “true believers,” all non-believers—including Jews—will be hunted down and converted or destroyed . . . that is, those few who survived the nuclear holocaust that was prayed for and schemed for by the “Ish Elokim” and the CUFI.
Earlier it was noted
According to a United Nation’s report, 971 Palestinian and Israeli children were killed between September 2000—the beginning of the second intifada—and July 2007. Of those destroyed children, 854 were Palestinian. The intifada and the dying continue. Safa and Danielle are two of the children whose lives the evangelical political action committee, Christians United for Israel, are willing to sacrifice on the alter of their fundamentalist eschatology in the hope of bringing about Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Pastor John Hagee, televangelist to 99 million viewers and pastor of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, established the CUFI in 2005 following the publication of his book, “The Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World.” Hagee envisions CUFI as the Christian version the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful pro-Israel lobby whose political clout has a significant influence on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Read the whole thing. Hagee’s Zionism needs exactly this kind of exposure and denunciation. Well done, Robert. Very well done indeed.
Try the website of the “Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism”: christianzionism.org.
Experts in this field and on its board include Donald Wagner, Stephen Sizer, John Hubers, Stan Moody et al.
By: Arthur Preisinger on March 15, 2008
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Scary. Especially because it is based on a fabricated premise. Are they aware that Anti-Christ is not even in Revelation, and that in John’s letters it is a spirit of something that portrays itself as Christianity, but is not and thus deceives (here addressed to the specific community in question that was dealing with “other Christs”).
The Late Great Planet Earth could be the most evil book published in the 20th century since it made this stuff mainstream and influenced countless would-be preachers.
By: Drew on March 15, 2008
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“Don’t listen to what Hagee says, Read columns about Hagee.”
Let’s begin by pointing out that while both Abu-Saif and Shafi
are little girls, there is a difference between them. Abu-Saif
was apparently killed as a result of stray bullet that reached her
apartment during crossfire in the neighborhood of Jabalia. The fact is we don’t really know who fired the bullet — Palestinian or Israeli, and probably never will.
But the story about Danielle Shefi is wrong. Her mother was playing in the bedroom with her and the other two children when the terrorist broke into the house. They all hid under the bed and her mother hushed her not to cry. That didn’t help. The terrorist hunted them down and shot Danielle in the head. Her father was in Shabbat morning prayer service when this happened, and recounted, “Danielle, who never hurt anyone and who was taught to love and respect all human beings, Jew or Arab, was murdered in her parents’ bedroom – which for her should have been the safest place.’”
I really don’t know from where Weitzel invented his story, but apparently he was writing an editorial and contrasting the two real stories with each other might have made too much of a “Zionist” impact, I guess, so he used his license as an editorialist to rewrite the facts. He even doesn’t bother to check the appropriate spelling of her name.
Much the same way as he rewrites, misquotes, and subverts what Pastor Hagee says.
By: Yitzhak Sapir on March 15, 2008
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Yitzhak,
Thanks for your comments on the story about the little girls. But I am curious, what about Hagee did he distort?
By: Danny Zacharias on March 16, 2008
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