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"God Hates The World", Sings Westboro Baptist

Whited Sepulchers

Another reason to quit Christianity

The MUSIC and TALENT SUCKS!


Bruce Wilson:

John Hagee Seems To Hold Similar Views. And George W ?...

I hate to say it, but I'm glad for the existence of Westboro Baptist because Fred Phelps' church helps expose a hateful underbelly of parts of American Christianity : not even the "Christian right", because there are many in that tendency (which gets defined differently by different people) who would be quick to condemn Westboro Baptist for its hate-saturated protests at the funerals of Gay US service members killed in Iraq. But, Westboro Baptist represents the quintessence of a tendency within Christianity, mirrored no doubt within Islam as well, that presumes to know which societal groups and even which cities and entire geographical regions are slated for the wrath of divine destruction for alleged sins.It's easy to take Westboro Baptist's "hate song" as a parody of itself, but consider this ; people with very similar beliefs, such as Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee, currently have connections in American politics, to powerful politicians such as John McCain and Roy Blunt and even to the President of the United States, George W. Bush. But more to the point, Hagee is spearheading a new Jewish-Christian alliance that's helping to propel the US towards war with Iran ; Hagee thinks this will precipitate Armageddon.

Westboro Baptist singles out gays in particular, but some leaders on the Christian express the tendency by declaring that, for example, the destruction of much of New Orleans by hurricane Katrina was divine retribution for that city's sins.

After the devastation of Katrina, it was widely rumored, and then exposed as a hoax, that Pat Robertson had described Katrina as divine retribution. It was a hoax, but at least one rising Christian right leader did just that : John Hagee. On a September 2006 segment of Terry Gross' "Fresh Air", John Hagee stated that the devastation, by hurricane, of New Orleans was divine punishment for a gay parade that had been scheduled in that city.

John Hagee was keynote speaker at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last February, 2006 : approximately one half of the US Senate and House of Representatives attended the event, and a large number of those attended John Hagee's keynote speech. Hagee has also speculated that the apocalyptic war he expects and which he seems to have created a new national lobby to promote ( CUFI, Christians United For Israel ) may result in the nuclear destruction of the East and West coasts of the United States : for insufficient support of the sort of far right Israeli politics Hagee advocates.

In other words, John Hagee is, in some ways, like Fred Phelps writ large: except that Fred Phelps doesn't give addresses to nearly one half of the US Congress or meet with powerful GOP politicians such as John McCain and Roy Blunt.

As governor of Texas George W. Bush was known to have frequented Hagee's San Antonio based Cornerstone Baptist Church, and Hagee has boasted that he has "broken bread" with former governor Bush.

Over the weekend, a startling, possibly incendiary aspect of John Hagee's "Christians United For Israel" website came to light, exposed by the New York City based JTA News Service ; CUFI's website logo features an image of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall and Temple Mount, and the Islamic holy sites on the Temple Mount appear to have been photoshopped out of the image. CUFI claims the omission is simply an artifact of the perspective the photo image was take from, but that is disputed and, in any case, the absence of the Haram el-Shareef, the third holiest site in Islam and from which Mohammed is said to have ascended to heaven, is consonant with pastor John Hagee's predictions that, per Biblical prophecy, the Islamic sites on the Temple Mount will be destroyed and a Jewish temple rebuilt on the site.

Such views are considered, within mainstream Israeli society, to be "abhorrent".

John Hagee routinely vilifies all of Islam, stating that faithful Muslims want to kill Christians and Jew and conquer the World.

Is the issue of CUFI's website logo minor ? No, quite the opposite. In Christians United For Israel "Wipes" Dome Of The Rock From Website Logo, I write:

In Israel, the destruction of the Dome Of The Rock is a centerpiece goal of indigenous terrorist groups, but within American politics the idea has become sufficiently mainstream that leading American politicians have eagerly sought to curry the political favor of religious leaders, such as John Hagee, who say they look forward to the destruction of the Dome Of The Rock. Such an event would enrage much of the Islamic world and could provoke the sort of disastrous military confrontation centering around Israeli that apocalyptic Christian Zionists such as John Hagee say they long for. So, American Jews who have made the decision to tactically ally themselves with John Hagee, in the belief that Hagee is the best friend Jews can expect to find in support of Israel, must confront the reality that John Hagee's, and to a somewhat lesser extent AIPAC's, political positions may not represent Israeli mainstream political views but may lie, rather, somewhere between the hard right to the fringe right along the Israeli political spectrum.

Regardless of John Hagee's noisy declarations of love for Israel, CUFI's leaders appear to support Israel mainly on the basis of the role they believe Israel will feature in their apocalyptic, Christian Zionist end-time beliefs, and CUFI's leaders such as George Morrison and even John Hagee himself have stated that the military confrontation they expect and believe is inevitable, centering around Israel, will kill the majority of Israeli Jews. American Christian Zionist leaders frequently refer to the death toll from the battle of Armageddon, anticipated in Christian dispensationalist apocalyptic belief, as a "another holocaust", a "second holocaust" or "worse than the holocaust" and also make comparisons to Auschwitz.

In the end, Christian Zionism has, as a political force, sought to preclude and prevent peace in the Middle East, and lately Pastor John Hagee's new CUFI lobby has had great success in entraining American Jews in a coalition that seems bent on war. It is not clear that American Jews desire the sort of maximal war policy CUFI and American Christian Zionists envision for Israel, and it is very clear that most Israelis do not desire war. Will the incendiary nature of CUFI's website logo force a reappraisal of the American Jewish tactical alliance with Christian Zionism ?



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Don't forget this is the SHIT that put BUSH into office and BUSH is a part of this WINGNUT movment. IDIOCY rules AMERICA with the Hypocrite Khristian GOP.


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