April 29, 2008
Do you McCain? Do you Believe in Hagee?
Posted by voiceoffreedom under Bush Admin, Civil and Human Rights, Corporate Entities, Economics, Education, Elections, European Union, Government, Hate Speech, Left wing, Media, Politics, Propaganda, Religion, Right wing, School System, Science, Teachers, anti-christ, apocalyptic, christian, conspiracy, corporate greed, corruption, democratic, environmental problems, fanatics, jesus, john hagee, journalism, journalist, mainstream media, public servant, republican | Tags: Adolf Hitler, anti-christ, anti-Semitism, apostate, baptist, catholic, cult, cults, democrat, democrate, democrats, dems, earthquake, Gay Pride, global warming, hagee, hurricane, illinois, judgment of God, lust, mccain, New Orleans, pope, Religion, republican, republicans, repubs, suffolk virginia, the great whore, tornado, virginia, wright |Reporting on a New Orleans campaign event at which Sen. John McCain was interrupted by a voter’s question about Pastor John Hagee,” CNN’s Dana Bash aired a clip of Hagee — who has endorsed McCain — saying of Hurricane Katrina, “What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God.” But Bash did not air the portion of Hagee’s comments in which he reaffirmed his previous assertion that Hurricane Katrina was at least in part the result of “sin” that Hagee identified as “a massive homosexual rally.” CNN’s John Roberts and Kyra Phillips similarly noted that Hagee said that “Katrina was God’s punishment for sinful behavior in New Orleans” .
September 18, 2006, edition of National Public Radio’s Fresh Air
HAGEE: All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. 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. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know that there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment. And I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.
(If it’s God doing this, I think we should send a gay pride parade to those very dry area’s in Africa so some FOOD will grow there again! Think of it, God and the Gay Pride Parade save the starving children in Africa! What say you Hagee? You can still say its God sending the flooding, but this time it will be a good thing!)
Okay, God was punishing New Orleans for planning to have a gay pride parade, what on earth did Illinois do last week to deserve that 5.2 earthquake? I read…According to Anagram Commodity Research Crude oil rebounded due to concern that a 5.2-magnitude earthquake in Illinois affected refinery operations. So, I guess God is in favor of oil and “BIG OIL” being sold “sky” high and all us little sinners getting the short end of a dry “dipstick”…har, funny man that God.
How about Virginia what did they do to have God sling down three tornadoes, punishing over 200 with injuries and leaving many more homeless? (not really a hurricane, but since God controls the heavens…)
The governor has declared Bremer, Blackhawk and Louisa Counties in eastern Iowa state disaster areas due to flooding this week. What horrible sins did Iowa commit? (flooding? doesn’t that come from rain from the heavens…)
(I think I know………..those areas are conservative strongholds, lol. Keep your eyes on the skys Repubs!)
Well Mr Hagee…Mr. McCain, who welcomes the endorsement of Mr. Hagee, what say you both?
Natural disasters or God’s wrath? Don’t be coy, tell us what you really think!
Consider the following pronouncements by Hagee, the man who McCain has proudly introduced as an ally and who has endorsed McCain.
On Jews:
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God’s chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day.
And:
How utterly repulsive, insulting, and heartbreaking to God for his chosen people to credit idols with bringing blessings he had showered upon the chosen people. Their own rebellion had birthed the seed of anti-Semitism that would arise and bring destruction to them for centuries to come.
On gays:
All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. 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. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know that there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment. And I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.
Hagee, of course, is also a virulent anti-Catholic, who has suggested that the pope is the anti-Christ, and that Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitism was the result of being educated at a Catholic school.
But last week, once McCain assured reporters that, just because Hagee was endorsing him, it didn’t mean he agreed with everything Hagee said, the mainstream media essentially let the matter drop.
No? Really? Wonder why? They sure didn’t drop it in Obama’s case did they?
McCain has not rejected the support of Hagee, and has said nothing about Hagee’s claims that American foreign policy towards Palestine is causing God to attack the United States with terrorists.
Hagee called the Catholic religion ‘The Great Whore,’ the ‘apostate church,’ the ‘anti-Christ’ and a ‘false cult system’? McCain cannot ignore Hagee’s lies any more than he can tolerate his bigotry.
Of course, being a former Baptist, I understand where ole Hagee is coming from. Hellfire and brimstone, and the Apocalypse are what people like Hagee long for and lust after.
I’m certain though, that people that believe as Hagee does…hell in fact if they believe even a little of what Hagee does….I don’t want them running our country.
Do you McCain? Do you Believe in Hagee?
April 29, 2008 at 5:53 pm
So, John McCain accepting Hagee’s endorsement,despite never actually sitting in his church, is equivalent to Obama sitting in a church for 20 years and listening to racist and vile rants? I find that hard to believe. But you obviously believe a president’s associations are a legitimate story, which is good.
April 29, 2008 at 7:54 pm
The funniest thing about this is that the area’s that stayed safe during Katrina, The French Quarter and the Marigny, are basically where most of the gay folks live. If God really wanted to go after them, don’t ya think the “straight” areas of the city woulda been kept safe and the “gay” areas would have been flooded out. Don’t ya think Mr. Hagee?
April 30, 2008 at 2:27 pm
yup Hagee needs as much airtime as the wright fella. #Especially when he is just as, if not more hateful and racists!
April 30, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Dude,
To be honest you should acknowledge that the Republican party long ago hitched it’s wagon to the religious right.
McCain’s “acknowledgment” of Hagee’s endorsement is a nod to the christian world that McCain “beleives” in their cause. (well, whilst he is campaigning anyway) McCain in the past said he was an Episcopalian, he denied it later and told news reporters that he was a Baptist….huh? Maybe he denied it because Episcopalians support ordination of gays with many pastors marrying gays in their churches.
As well, we know that a majorty of “christians” by and large really dislike gays, and claim that there is some sort of “gay agenda”, so McCain denies his own religion for votes and for pandering to the larger sect of the “christian” population!?
So I want to ask you, if it is no big deal for McCain, why all the STINK when it comes to Obama and his relationship with his pastor and with Farrakahn (another nut)…who he has denied and disagreed with over and over again, only to have the news media swamp the waves with the issue. It’s that annoying goose and gander thing again!
This (racist and hateful) Hagee NUT endorses McCain (which was sought by McCain’s campaign) and its NO BIG DEAL?
Sorry, I disagree. I don’t like the idea of someones religion…..running this country. Where does that leave the other religions…or the atheists?
Which, btw, does not mean that I agree with Obamas’ pastors’ speech either, this article is about McCain’s acceptance of Hagee’s endorsment.
April 30, 2008 at 3:08 pm
here is a little more flavor of Hagee’s hate:
…and….
SO……………..
How come the media — in all the times they sit and chat with McCain — never read all of the inflammatory, disgusting, crazed “Rapture-is-Coming/ All-Jews-will-Burn/ Kill-All-Muslims/ Hurricanes-are-Punishment-against-Gays” pronouncements from John Hagee and other religious leaders and demand that he “denounce” those views and “reject” their support?
Why, it’s almost as if the news media AGREES with Hagee and McCain. They are campaigning just as hard for the “white christian” McCain as McCain is himself.
April 30, 2008 at 6:36 pm
If Obama had sat in Hagee’s church for 20 years and praised him and named a book after one of his sermons, would you vote for him, then?
The Country was born out of the ‘religous right’–In God We Trust and all that. Besides, up until the 1960’s the Democrats were the more religous party.
As far as I can tell, you are the only one bringing up the gay-episcopalian angle, I don’t think McCain has ever said anything about the so-called ‘gay agenda’. He and Obama both oppose gay marriage, so is Obama a homophobe?
RE: “a majorty of “christians” by and large really dislike gays, and claim that there is some sort of “gay agenda”?
Does Obama fit that description?
I’m not Christian so I don’t care about Wright as a person, but I care about who runs the country.
The problem isn’t with WRight’s hate speech at the pulpit, it’s that a possible president of the United States thought that was totally acceptable for 20 years. He wrote in his book that the first sermon he ever saw from Wright was called “White Man’s Greed” Runs a World Indeed, so he’s known about it since the begining.
RE: “Sorry, I disagree. I don’t like the idea of someones religion…..running this country. Where does that leave the other religions…or the atheists?”
Nobody’s “religion” is running anything. Barack and Hillary are Christians too, you know. So was every single President the United STates of America has ever had. Every one was Christian and we aren’t a theocracy yet.
Christians: Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Barack Obama, HIllary and Bill, George Washington, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, FDR, Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr and Jr, Dwight Eisenhower, etc, etc…
April 30, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Attributing a natural disaster to the work of God is not the same as telling a group of people who trust you that their government is actively trying to kill you.
April 30, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I see you are ignoring the sought for endorsement of the McCain campaign of Hagee and his followers.
Please tell me how a man seeks out the endorsement of a person like Hagee, and a person that condemns the speech of a former pastor is the same?
April 30, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Now, also please relate to me the NEWS flashes of all the hate speech that Hagee has trumpeted and the calls for McCain to distance himself from Hagee and the calls for McCain to reject Hagee’s endorsement?
April 30, 2008 at 7:11 pm
BTW, you did know that the government of the United States of America DID actively experiment on blacks in the past…..here is an official apology from a former president:
BTW, you did know that the United States of America DID experiment on children in the past too, didn’t you?
BTW, you did know that the United States of American DID actively seek to infect people with smallpox, didn’t you?
So, as to your comment:
Yes, some people do think that a government might be induced to actively try to kill you.
In 1990, a survey found that 10 percent of African Americans believed that the U.S. government created AIDS as a plot to exterminate blacks, and another 20 percent could not rule out the possibility that this might be true. As preposterous and paranoid as this may sound, at one time the Tuskegee experiment must have seemed equally farfetched. Who could imagine the government, all the way up to the Surgeon General of the United States, deliberately allowing a group of its citizens to die from a terrible disease for the sake of an ill-conceived experiment? In light of this and many other shameful episodes in our history, African Americans’ widespread mistrust of the government and white society in general should not be a surprise to anyone.