 | Mike Huckabee Calls Jew-Hating Preacher A Great Leader |
The more we learn about Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, the more clear it becomes that he is a genuine right wing extremist. That’s a harsh judgment, but wouldn’t you include embracing anti-semitism as a clear sign of right wing extremism?
That’s just what Mike Huckabee has done with his shameless embrace of radical preacher John Hagee. John Hagee has a clear and well known history of anti-Jewish bigotry. In his book, Jerusalem Countdown: A Prelude To War, John Hagee wrote,
“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….
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…. it rises from the judgment of God upon his rebellious chosen people.”
In these passages, John Hagee is making one of the most ancient anti-semitic claims: That Jews deserve everything bad that happens to them, because they have refused to become Christians and are somehow responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. Hagee actually claims that the Nazi holocaust organized by Adolph Hitler was the will of God in judgment “upon his rebellious chosen people.”
John Hagee is on the record as making excuses for Nazi death camps, and Mike Huckabee surely knows that. Apparently, Huckabee doesn’t care, so long as Hagee can deliver him votes.
Mike Huckabee calls John Hagee “one of the great Christian leaders of our nation”.
(Sources: Jerusalem Countdown: A Prelude To War, New York Post, December 24, 2007)
Update: Now that Huckabee is out of the race, John McCain has sought and obtained the endorsement of John Hagee, appeared on stage with John Hagee, and featured John Hagee on the McCain for President campaign web site. John McCain, like Mike Huckabee, has embraced this jew-hating televangelist as a way of gaining political power.
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You are a moron!!! I happen to have read both of Pastor Hagee’s books, Jerusalem Countdown: A Prelude To War, as well as in defense of Israel… I didn’t get your message out of either of these great books. John Hagee has been a pro-active anti-semetic leader for over 40 years. He simply explains why the jewish people do not accept Yesua (Jesus) as the messiah… And he explains his point and reasoning for it so that the average person can understand it. And for once in my life, I understand completely what happened 2000 years ago. Maybe you should re-read these books again. This time read it with an open mind instead of a dogmatic critical eye looking for inconsistences, and your own anti semetic rhetoric…
Comment by James Westmoreland — 4/7/2008 @ 10:57 am
Hmm. Which part of calling Jews “utterly repulsive, insulting, and heartbreaking” is not anti-Semitic?
Of course, as you point out, I’m a moron. So, help me understand this, please.
Comment by J. Clifford — 4/7/2008 @ 11:28 am
Hello,
I am from Germany and I´ve a question about John Hagee. I am examining the charismatic movement. Is this John Hagee a charismatic teacher? I´ve seen the video on Youtube, in which he is shortly speaking about “Jesus is not the Messiah”. I don´t have the Book IN DEFENSE OF ISRAEL, but would you or somebody else please be so kind and give me some quotation out of the Book, where this man is teaching things like: Jesus is not the Messiah.
Through Bible teaching of Derek Prince I´ve decided to buy the book THE ANGUISH OF THE JEWS from Edward H Flannery. And i´ve come to the conclusion, that the Christian Church is responsible for the powerful existence of antisemitism in the World today. However, I try to find someone from the United States, that could help me a little bit to understand the Christianity Today. I´m not going to judge somebody I only want to get more spiritual information, that will help me to break through the confusion in my own life, concerning charismatic movement, the apostacy at the endtime and so on.
I never had a special possibility to write with somebody from the USA, but I will be very thankful, if someone will help me to get a little bit more information about some teachers like John Hagee (especially how could somebody be called “one of the great Christian leaders of our nation” while he is rejecting such a easy-to-understand-fact, that Jesus of Nazareth is not only “A” Messiah but “THE” Messiah for the jews first and then for the gentiles, as it was predicted in the Holy Scriptures thousands years ago).
I´m sorry if I´ve some errors or faults in my writing concerning grammatical things, but I´m about to learn mor English now.
Maybe somebody is willing to spend some time in writing to a young man in germany.
God bless you,
Frank Petersohn
Comment by Frank Petersohn — 4/16/2008 @ 10:00 am
Frank, if you’re going to do real research on the subject of the relationship of Christianity and antisemitism in Europe from the Middle Ages through the Nazis, I suggest that you don’t do it through “Bible teaching” and “spiritual information”, but through more reliable historical works.
John Hagee is what we call a televangelist - a Christian preacher who does a lot of his work preaching on television. John Hagee is in particular obsessed with the idea that we’re on the verge of the End Times, the Apocalypse. He has a political group that is trying to set things up in Israel so that circumstances will be what he thinks will trigger the second coming of Jesus. Hagee even has a bunch of professionals working to try to breed a “perfect red heifer”, a certain cow that Hagee believes must be born before the Apocalypse and the Rapture can take place.
In short, John Hagee is what we in America like to call a “fruitcake”. Imagine a person with a cake for a brain, and you’ll get the idea.
Comment by J. Clifford — 4/16/2008 @ 10:08 am
Thank you for answering! It is very interesting to have contact in such a way like this. In America it is 11.36 am, so yiu will soon have lunch, right? I and my my wife will have dinner! However. I´m 25 years old and I was born in an family, in which God, church or bible never was subject, because nobody believed in Jesus Christ or something else. We were real atheist! But about 6 years ago I met a woman that told me about sin, heaven, hell and the way into each. So 2 years after my conversion (in german we say BEKEHRUNG) to Jesus Christ I married the woman, who ever told me about the only way to the Kingdom of God. Praise and Glory to God! So now you have to understand that after 3 years “getting more and more deeper into Gods word” (in german we say: sich Grundwissen aneignen und die Fundamente legen > i don´t know how to translate this literally) I started recognizing, that all the Words in the bible are really godly inspired and I can trust in them.
Now more and more I consider tremendous important things in the bible and I am not really, but a little bit confused because of the different views of one simple vers in he bible…etc. However, you have given me a good advice to do real research through reliable historical works.
I don´t know why, but i find it very hard in germany to find exactly and unaltered information concerning Israel in the bible, antisemitism in the world. On american internet pages I´ve found much more information but there is also such a indescribable large number of sites, so that it will take good time to work through that all.
Does the “televangelists” have a more good or a more bad reputation in the USA? I have read a few things about BENNY HINN, i guess you know him better than me!, are all televangelists like Benny Hinn? However, how could a Christian leader deny JEsus to be the Messiah? For us germans, it is quite impossible to understand such a sentence: Christian leader and televangelist denies Jesus to be the MEssiah? How is that possible?
Which background do you have?
Frank Petersohn
Comment by Frank Petersohn — 4/16/2008 @ 12:12 pm
Quote of you:
“Can you trust all the words of the Bible? The Bible was written by people, not by God. People don’t know everything. They do their best and they write what they understand in the way they understand it. In the same way, different people read the Bible and interpret it in different ways. How can you know what is the truth?”
I can say fully convinced, that the Bible has a divine inspiration directly from God. a few months ago I´examined the diffent german translations of the Bible because I found out, that there were two different greek manuscripts. One is called codex alexandrian and the other on textus receptus. If you compare these two, you get i great number of differences. And when you will have a look unto the omitted passages, you will find out, why they´ve tried to omit some fundamental verses like 1John 5:7. Only two german translations (Luther 1545 and rev. Schlachter 2000)have the complete verse. all the other german translations have omitted 90% of this single verse. Why so? Because it is the only place in the Bible that helps you to understand, that God is a (Dreieiniger) God. How do you say this in english? This differences were caused by the different manuscripts. And the most modern translations are based on the wrong one, the codex alexandrian. However, till I found out that there are such differences I used the Luther 1984 translation. Though it is a manipulated translation it helped me till a special moment to understand more and more how great God is with his great compassion. And there is no shadow of doubt that Jesus of Nazareth is the predicted Messiah, the King of the Jews, the Holy One of Israel, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and End and so on…
Even through the manipulated manuscripts by Alexandrian people, God took care of the truth and I´m so fascinated by the thought, that 2000 years after JEsus lived on this planet, I´ve received his message and great call for repentance and so on…
Praises to God only
Comment by Frank Petersohn — 4/18/2008 @ 1:12 pm
john hagee loves jews. do your research. he is a huge proponent of israel and in fact belives jews are saved apart from christ.
Comment by Anonymous — 4/23/2008 @ 7:22 pm
“Anonymous” - can you tell me which part of calling Jews “utterly repulsive, insulting, and heartbreaking”, as John Hagee has, come from him loving them so much?
Comment by J. Clifford — 4/23/2008 @ 7:28 pm
Have you seen Hagee’s speech in front of AIPAC?
He totally apologizes for the holocust and everything that has every happened. He further discusses a full political movement that he started with over 80 offices in congressional districts in support of Israel.
He states that he is a Christian-Zionist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRxmqOn7×4
He totally blast US churches, the UN, and anyone that does not support Israel.
Have you done any research at all?!
Comment by Johnathan — 5/19/2008 @ 3:10 am
Yes, I have, Johnathan. John Hagee is one of those people who “supports” Israel in the sense that he wants to lead Israel into a NEW Holocaust, in which Hagee believes that Jesus Christ himself orders the torture of all Jews who refuse to submit to his authority.
John Hagee calls that “support” for Israel, because he believes that the state of Israel must become very strong before its people can be annihilated in the Apocalypse.
Have you done YOUR research, Johnathan?
Oh, and Johnathan, can YOU tell me which part of calling Jews “utterly repulsive, insulting, and heartbreaking”, as John Hagee has, come from him loving them so much? No McCain supporters have even tried to answer that question yet.
Comment by J. Clifford — 5/19/2008 @ 6:51 am
The above comments to a man searching for the truth about what John Hagee believes are pathetic and filled with untruths.
My suggestion to get to the truth, go to http://www.jhmspam.org to know what Hohn Hagee teaches and believes and read in the New Testament the last book “The Revelation” of Jesus Christ so you will discover what John Hagee teaches is true to scripture and he definitely does not hate the Jewish people and knows God has preserved them as a nation.
The Bible was written by men inspired by God.
Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the light and no man can come to the Father except by me. That applies to all mankind.
Comment by Juanita Junkins — 5/19/2008 @ 1:51 pm
Okay, Juanita. Beatrix Potter also wrote that Peter Rabbit was a very naughty boy and had chamomile tea instead of dinner and had to go to bed early. Does that apply to all mankind too, because it has been written in a book?
Juanita, will you be the one to explain to me how telling the Jews that the Nazi Holocaust was their fault, and calling the Jews “utterly repulsive, insulting, and heartbreaking”, as John Hagee has done, is consistent with your claim that Hagee does not hate Jews?
Will you have the guts to try to explain that?
Comment by J. Clifford — 5/19/2008 @ 2:33 pm
Yes, I have, Johnathan. John Hagee is one of those people who “supports” Israel in the sense that he wants to lead Israel into a NEW Holocaust, in which Hagee believes that Jesus Christ himself orders the torture of all Jews who refuse to submit to his authority.
It’s hilarious how the jewish Zionist and the quasi-Hagee-Zionist pretend to ’support’ each other; when both plan on kicking the other to the curb when the time is right. The Jewish Zionist would shake would ’support’ the devil if they thought it would advance their evil agenda. Never have two groups deserved each other more. I can’t wait till they get antsy and turn on each other. Hope they don’t involve the rest of us. They usually drag us in to every fight they start, so that’s probably wishful thinking.
Comment by Joe Ryan — 5/22/2008 @ 10:30 pm
Jesus was a Jew! It’s the Christian church who created a convoluted anti-semitic perspective over the centuries, using Jews as scapegoats in order to consolidate their own power. In fact Jews have been the chosen people all right … chosen to be scapegoats by the Christians, by the Nazis, by the Muslims … and today, by the extreme left democrats and black liberation churches … which is ironical, since the Jews were significant in helping the civil rights movement happen.
Comment by HLC — 6/3/2008 @ 6:36 pm