Friday, October 5, 2007

Pastor John Hagee, Israelofascist

Yesterday on Tucker, Tucker Carlson interviewed Pastor John Hagee, a man with a gigantic hard-on for Israel. Here are some choice quotes.

"We are living—reliving history, if you will. It‘s 1938 all over again. And Iran is the new Germany. And Ahamadinejad is the new Hitler. Whenever Hitler was talking about killing the Jewish people, not very many people were listening. We have a new Hitler in the Middle East working to put together nuclear power for the purpose of attacking Israel and using those weapons on the United States of America."
- Pastor John Hagee, Historian

I never get tired of "___ is the new Hitler." statements.

"To be a Christian, you obey the bible and the bible is very clear about supporting the state of Israel, beginning in Genesis 12, Psalms 122, Romans 15: 26 and following. There is a plethora of scripture where Christians are mandated to be supportive of the state of Israel."
- Pastor John Hagee, Biblical Scholar

Here's an idea of how "commanding" those passages are:

"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Genesis 12: 1-3

Psalms 122 doesn't command a fucking thing.

"For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem."
Romans 15 : 26

"If we can take away America‘s dollars from the hands of Iranians who are putting together weapons that are killing America‘s soldiers on the battlefield in Iraq, that would be of great benefit and practical service to our nation right now."
Pastor John Hagee, Military Strategist

It's a good thing that America never sold weapons to anyone who helped arm the Iranians.

And this is the gem of the interview:

"Let me speak for myself. I certainly do not speak for all Evangelicals. But as a group, we are not comfortable with Rudy Giuliani. We would prefer some other candidate."
- Pastor John Hagee, Confused as Fuck.

I love that last one. He's speaking for himself, he doesn't speak for all Evangelicals, but as a group...

Brilliant.

5 comments:

Caleb said...

I like the epithets.

MA17 said...

Man, two of those passages are Old Testament, which don't count because there were exactly 0 Christians when it was written, so it makes sense that those 0 Christians were not commanded to do anything.

And Romans 15:26? Certain people are ok with giving Jerusalem material goods because of the religious debt they owe them? That's cool, but I wonder where you'd have to go for biblical precedent for sending "poor saints" anything other than food and clothes.

_J_ said...

Yeah. Outside of the 10 commandments I don't think there are that many straightforward commandments in the Bible. It's one of those things where you have to want to see it.

Yacov said...

the natural man cannot receive things of the spirit-thats you!- pull your head out
Hagee is off the wall but you dont know your Bible well enough to see why
Only a relationship with Christ will turn you around
you are lost in the Matrix

Yacov said...

the natural man [ you] cannot receive things of the spirit- so you need to pull your head out and develop a relationship with Christ
Hagee is off the wall but you dont know your Bible well enough to know why
Hells awaiting for all foul know it alls