John Hagee, equal opportunity bigot

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from AlterNet:



Jews Control Economy, Claims Washington Post Op-Ed Author Who Bashes Islam Too


On Wednesday, September 19, 2012, the Washington Post published an op-ed from an Islam-bashing Christian pastor, John Hagee - founder of Christians United For Israel - who has repeatedly written in bestselling books, and broadcast around the world on evangelical networks (see Hagee statement at 10:22 in this video ), a claim also promoted by Adolf Hitler - that European Jewish bankers are manipulating the economy, to the detriment of common folk.

Hagee's claim, that European Jews are manipulating the financial system, was also central to an anti-Jewish movie produced under the supervision of Hitler's chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels, " The Eternal Jew " (link to video) - commonly judged to be the most effective work of anti-Semitic propaganda ever filmed. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/brucewilson/jews-control-economy-claims-washington-post-op-ed-author-who-bashes-islam-too

[DesertFlower]

1. Jesus Hussein Christ. nt

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3. Dick Cheney Almighty.

[DesertFlower]

5. that's a good one. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

2. McCain campaigned with Hagee, he's anti gay so lots of the 'faith community' loves

him, the rest of the bigotry they see as a sort of gravy to his venomous anti gay rhetoric. Hagee also, by the way, hates Catholics as well...

[Dawson Leery]

4. Pat Robertson and Aparthied Jerry said the same thing.

The "christian" right is openly anti-semetic.

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6. No! Hagee is not anti-Semitic.

He is a Dispensationalist. God has different dispensations for the Jews and the Christians. The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) relates God's covenant to the Jews. The New Testament is a different covenant to Christians. Both are binding; neither conflict because they are different dispensations with God. (Don't you love the rhetoric.)

Hagee is a huge supporter of Israel. To call him anti-Semetic would be utterly wrong. I am sure that Bibi loves the guy.

On edit: Of course, come the end times, the Jews have two choices, convert to Jesus, or be plunged into the fiery furnace. So, it's kind of a tough kind of love.

[BruceWilson]

7. Wrong

Yes, Hagee is a dispensationalist. But, in historic terms, a percentage of dispensationalists have always been wildly anti-Semitic. Hagee is one such case.

John Hagee goes even beyond traditional dispensationalist theological vilification of Jews, and promotes a class of anti-Jewish conspiracy theory favored by Hitler and the Nazis, the claim that Jewish bankers manipulate or even control national economies through their alleged financial schemes.

You would know this had you bothered to read the linked story.

Along with researcher Rachel Tabachnick, I have extensively documented John Hagee's anti-Semitism. There is no question about it. He has put his anti-Jewish memes, slurs, stereotypes, and conspiracy theories in books and in sermons broadcast around the world. We have the books. We have the sermons.

[LiberalAndProud]

8. Well said! Welcome to DU.

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9. Well, let's just say he plays both sides of the street.

My source on Hagee was the Reasonable Doubts podcast. Granted they are only one source, but their focus was not Hagee, but dispensationalism.

In spite of his rhetoric, Hagee is still a fierce defender of Israel. It is kind of a tough love given that, according to Hagee, they either convert, or they're doomed to perdition.

I was not defending Hagee. I despise him and all who follow his lunacy. That includes Bibi, too. Both are cut from the same cloth.

Hitchens was correct. Religion poisons everything.