Video “Pastor John Hagee: A Preoccupation with the Jews” narrated by Ed Asner

August 2, 2008 Christian Right and Antisemitism, Christian Zionism No Comments

Asner’s narrative in this 16-minute video–posted on July 18, 2008 by “JewsOnFirst.org, the Jewish Response to attacks on the First Amendment”–is not perfect. But the video does provide a revealing view of Hagee’s worldview. He declares, for example, that the Antichrist “will be partly Jewish, as was Adolf Hitler and as was Karl Marx.” Hagee also says that the Antichrist will be a homosexual. In a 1997 sermon, he declares that America is controlled by “an unseen hand.” He goes on to explain that the US is controlled by the Federal Reserve System, which is in turn controlled by “a group of class-A stockholders, among them mostly Europeans, the Rothschilds, and David Rockefeller.”

I received a message saying “This site has been temporarily disabled” when I tried to access http://www.jewsonfirst.org/ at 4:15 on Aug. 2, 2008. But the video is still accessible by clicking here.

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Tom DeLay: “America was created by God to spread the Gospel; to spread the word of Jesus Christ and to propagate Christianity”

August 2, 2008 Christian Right, US as a Christian Nation No Comments

Right Wing Watch – Best of the Blog, July 25, 2008

DeLay: God Created America To Propagate Christianity (7/25)

Earlier this month, we noted that former House Speaker Tom DeLay had joined one of his “closest friends,” Rick Scarborough of Vision America, for Sunday services at Scarborough’s Texas church. Now, Vision America has helpfully posted the audio of DeLay’s rambling sermon on its website in which he explains that “America was created by God to spread the Gospel; to spread the word of Jesus Christ and to propagate Christianity”: I know that America was created by God and it was created by God, not for wealth, personal wealth. It wasn’t created by God so that we would have the resources that we now have. It wasn’t even created by God to have the freedom that we have now. America was created by God to spread the Gospel; to spread the word of Jesus Christ and to propagate Christianity. And the reason I know that is because my entire political career is exhibited by that. The Lord walked with me … I came to Christ in the first year in Congress and now I’ve been walking with the Lord [and] he has trained me and showed me why he created this nation: to spread the Gospel.

Listen: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/delay_god_creat.html