Pastor John Hagee Calls For Pre-emptive Strike Against Iran

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"We want you to recognize that Iran is a clear and present danger to the United States of America and Israel. And... that it's time for our country to consider a military pre-emptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy," says Pastor John Hagee, a popular television preacher and head of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), an organization that he founded in February 2006.

That was said, of all places, on the steps of the Capitol during a Christian Zionist summit in July 2007. Among some 4,500 listeners, there were prominent representatives of the U.S. ruling elite: on the Republican side, presidential candidate John McCain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and former Republican House majority leader Tom DeLay; among the Democrats, Senator Joseph Lieberman was in attendance. Israel was represented at the rally by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"When 50 million American evangelicals unite with 5 million American Jews, you know it is a match made in heaven," the preacher said. In response, Sen. Lieberman said of the preacher: "I would describe Pastor Hagee with the words the Torah uses to describe Moses: he is an ‘Eesh Elo Kim,' a man of God because those words fit him; and, like Moses he has become the leader of a mighty multitude in pursuit of and defense of Israel."

Who are the "Christian Zionists"? They are a variety of Protestant "fundamentalists" who interpret current events literally as prophesies fulfilled, in accordance with Biblical prophecy, and interpret the prophetic texts as describing inevitable future events. They prefer the most literal interpretation, as proposed back in the 19th century by Briton John Darby, who said there would be no Second Coming of Christ until the Jews returned to the Holy Land.

When Israel was "recreated" in Palestine in 1948, the Darby followers came to the conclusion that that had happened exactly "according to the Scripture." Literalists like Hagee have since continued to replace historiography with theology. From these theological "heights," they imagine themselves to be political strategists and rulers of destinies in the world: after all, "in accordance with the Scripture," Abraham's posterity should possess the entire Holy Land - from Mesopotamia to Turkey to Egypt."

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http://mnweekly.ru/world/20071206/55295032.html

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These people are crazy....
 
And here I thought pastors, priests, etc were supposed to be peaceful kinds of people, not those who call for pre-emptive stirkes and war. :rolleyes:
 
Dispensationalist dominionist eschatological nightmare. He makes my savior shake his head.
 
more like a match made in hell...

honestly, these guys really are going to end the world if we're not careful. If we keep playing with fire in Russia's back yard we are eventually going to get burned.
 
There has to be a law that states anyone who goes on tv to call for war MUST be put in uniform themselves, and thrown into the front lines of the war..

Let's see how many fags like Hagee will come out of the woodwork then with their assinine speeches.
 
You shall know them by their fruits....

Matthew 5:43-48 (King James Version)

43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
 
I think his church should completely fund and supply the soldiers for his pre-emptive war.
 
I think his church should completely fund and supply the soldiers for his pre-emptive war.

Or send his own kids there should there be (God forbid) an attack on Iran.

I wonder if he'd still be speaking this way if he were to actually visit Iran and meet the people or see the country?

I really do wish Bush or Cheney or Rice or Rumsfeld or anyone who conducts or promotes these wars from their 'gilded palaces' would just go to a country they've bombed and see the results of their decisions.
 
I really do wish Bush or Cheney or Rice or Rumsfeld or anyone who conducts or promotes these wars from their 'gilded palaces' would just go to a country they've bombed and see the results of their decisions.

In the interest of fairness and playing the devil's advocate, haven't Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, et al. already traveled to Iraq several times? I understand exactly the point that you're trying to get across, but lets not just make stuff up here.
 
C christian huh...
"Lets go spread famine, poverty and despair in the Middle East"

What these idiots dont get is that their actions will result in US being turned into the third world.
 
I've seen this guy before. He's the same guy that chased a bunch of Jews out of his little "Evangelical get together " for asking him a few questions as to what the hell he was trying to accomplish, and using their first amendment right. This guy is a crazy nut. Anything he says is not credible.
 
"Hagee coined the term “Islamofascist” at CUFI’s founding conference, Wagner noted,"

"Today Hagee is perhaps best known as founder of an ultra-right wing Christian Zionist political lobby in Washington, Christians United for Israel, or CUFI.

According to Wagner, CUFI is completely aligned to AIPAC, the pro-Israel U.S. lobby, and “defends a hard-right maximalist Israeli agenda: They support Israel having control of all of the West Bank and Gaza because ‘God gave it to the Jews exclusively.’”

CUFI also fully supports the Israeli settler movement, Wagner said, and financially underwrites the relocation of European Jews to illegal settlements because Israel is “their land” promised them by God.

At the February 2006 launch of CUFI, Hagee stated that Christians United for Israel “will [soon] have organized offices in every state in the union, mobilizing every Christian and whoever will work with us on a pro-Israeli agenda.”

By mid-July of last year, Wagner said, Hagee had 3,500 CUFI supporters “deployed to every congressional office in Washington, pressing for more arms to be sent to Israel [during the Israeli-Hezbollah war] but also calling for the U.S. to attack Iran [because Hagee sees war with Iran as a prelude to Armageddon].”

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"Hagee coined the term “Islamofascist” at CUFI’s founding conference, Wagner noted, “and within a week [President] Bush was using it, then [former Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld.”

The Dangerous Potent Elixir of Christian Zionism By Pat Morrison: http://www.washington-report.org/archives/April_2007/0704058.html

google "CUFI Hagee"
 
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I don't really see any difference between former Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee and Pastor John Hagee...

Couple days ago during his CPAC speech Mike Huckabee spoke about Islamofascism which, according to him, has to be defeated. I don't have a script of his speech but you can read his article in Jerusalem Post which is titled:
We must defeat Islamofascism
By MIKE HUCKABEE
- http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1202064581092


Pastor John Hagee: "We want you to recognize that Iran is a clear and present danger to the United States of America and Israel. And... that it's time for our country to consider a military pre-emptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy," says Pastor John Hagee, a popular television preacher and head of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), an organization that he founded in February 2006.

http://mnweekly.ru/world/20071206/55295032.html


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At 23, Huckabee was a staffer for James Robison, a television evangelist. Robison commented, "His convictions shape his character and his character will shape his policies. His whole life has been shaped by moral absolutes." Huckabee has stated, "Politics are totally directed by worldview. That's why when people say, 'We ought to separate politics from religion,' I say to separate the two is absolutely impossible". Huckabee believes in Biblical inerrancy. Prior to his political career, Huckabee was pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Texarkana from 1980-1986 and then Beech Street Baptist Church in Pine Bluff, Arkansas from 1986-1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee#Pastoral_career
 
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