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CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS VIGOROUSLY PROTEST REV. JOHN HAGEE’S “2011 NIGHT TO HONOR ISRAEL”
Christian Zionist John Hagee Draws Fire
ALBUQUERQUE – Mikey Weinstein, Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundationand member of the JewsOnFirst advisory board, and Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, Co-Director of www.JewsOnFirst.org, vigorously protest the participation of the New Mexico Jewish Federation in Rev. John Hagee’s “2011 Night to Honor Israel,” which takes place tonight, Tuesday, January 11, in Albuquerque. We urge that people not attend the event nor support the misguided work of Christians United for Israel.
Mikey Weinstein and Rabbi Haim Beliak express their shock that the Jewish community of New Mexico would associate with Rev. Hagee and Christians United for Israel. Weinstein and Beliak reject the attempt to cast the conflict between Israel and Palestinians into religious language as unhelpful and misleading. Weinstein and Beliak point to the intolerance and bigotry of Hagee’s expressions as out of sync with the values of America and Judaism.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org), a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the first New Mexico organization ever to be so nominated in the state’s history, has been described by Harper’s Magazine as the “Constitutional Conscience of the (United States) Military.” JewsOnFirst.org is a web site that defends the First Amendment and encroachment by the Christian right.
By blaming the victim (the Jews) in his 2006 book Jerusalem Countdown: A Prelude To War, Hagee repeats a pattern of thought that is unacceptable.
Hagee claims that the Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves by rebelling against God (which is code language for not accepting Jesus as their Messiah). Hagee claims that the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis was God’s way of forcing Jews to move to Israel. Further, Hagee’s theological and material support of Israel seeks to foster the conditions for a cataclysmic world war. Hagee’s theology ignores the pursuit of peace but seeks instead, the mass death of the world’s people including most Jews. John Hagee believes “end-times war is a necessary precondition for the ‘Rapture’ that will lift Christians, but not Jews, bodily into Heaven.” In an interview with Terri Gross, Hagee depicts Jews as Christ killers, an ancient lie about Jews. (http://www.jewsonfirst.org/audio-video/Display5.aspx?id=5149)
Last week in a conference call to Christian supporters Hagee repeated his claim that “land for peace” was Biblically unjustified. Again, Hagee incorrectly cast the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis as a religious one. (http://www.christianpost.com/article/20110107/hagee-asserts-dividing-israel-is-not-gods-will-evangelicals-disagree/)
In televised sermons broadcast all over the world, Hagee has called the Catholic Church, “the Great Whore.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/
04rich.html?_r=4&pagewanted=print Free account required)
Hagee blames the misery of the Katrina disaster on plans for a gay pride parade. Even Dennis Prager, one of the speakers at tonight’s event, was astonished at Hagee’s claims. (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/23/hagee-katrina-mccain/)
Christians United for Israel helped to distribute an anti-Islamic film. (http://www.jewsonfirst.org/08a/cufi_obsession.html)
Hagee regularly expresses disdain for Reform and Conservative Jews (http://www.jewsonfirst.org/07b/yoffie.html). Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the leader of the Union for Reform Judaism, has expressed severe reservations about any connection to Hagee or CUFI. (http://www.jewsonfirst.org/06b/fp012.html)
Weinstein and Beliak approached the organizers of “2011 Night to Honor Israel” event asking that they inform the public of Hagee’s remarks and that these expression of hate did not bring honor to Israel. Weinstein and Beliak also demanded that the event be cancelled. Robert Efroymson, the chair of the event, offered to debate the issues but did not substantively respond to what Hagee was saying or to the request to cancel.
Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, Co-director of JewsOnFirst.org, can be reached at 310-592-8960.
Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/)
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when you were like 10 or 11 or 12 and you went to summer camp for 3 weeks and it was a pentecostal or Church of Christ (or whatever) and after a few days it was time for the “special effects religious service”.
You know the one!!
A lot of the kids were “speaking in tongues” in a “language” or a mumble you had never heard before, fortunately there were some counselors available to “translate”
Well , a lot of koolaid has been spiked
over the years!!
So if you weren’t doing the “speaking in tongues” & having it translated for you!!!!!
well then, you did not drink the orange koolaid!!
well, maybe it was the grape flavored koolaid!!!
or red dye Number 3 koolaid!!!
this crap & a whole lot more has been going on a long time !!!!!
So , no , Jesus will not be pleased with a weird mass cult destroying the Earth or at least another dozen Countries!!!!
But , you say , I remember that , I had visions & I was touched with the “spirit”,
Did the “spirit” tell you that G-d was a Real Estate Agent??
Well which flavor koolaid did you get?????
DID G-D TELL YOU TO DELIVER HELL TO OTHER PEOPLE SO YOU COULD GO TO HEAVEN??
THAT IS MESSED UP & YOU NEED TO REALIZE THAT!!
YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO REALIZE THAT ,
BUT IT IS STILL MESSED UP!!
perhaps kkristianz zionismz is for people who never read the Gospels or can’t read or just like being deceived,
what is there about these unspiritual used Car salesmen/saleswomen creatures/critters that you find credible or spiritual??
JOHN HAGEE IS A TWIT!!
A GREEDY TWIT!!
A RATHER COLD BLOODED REPTILE TWIT!!
JOHN HAGEE HAS A REAL JOB
HIS JOB IS TO LIE TO YOU!!
GOOD LIARS GET PAID PRETTY GOOD!!
http://www.amazon.com/Forcing-Gods-Hand-Millions-Destruction/product-reviews/1590080157/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
This is a book that confronts Christian extremism head-on. You will be amazed by what Ms. Grace Halsell has been able to uncover. She talks candidly about what may probably be called The New Cult in America which is gaining momentum so fast, i.e., the cult headed by Evangelists like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Hal Lindsay who would stop at nothing to fulfil their un-Christ like agendas. The cult has been able to penetrate even the most powerful office in the world (The White House), and its current occupant, George W. Bush. They have literally hijacked Christianity, and turned it into the most intolerant, conniving, and violent faith. They are prepared to expedite the second coming of Jesus Christ by forcing the preceding events by any means necessary, even if it means destroying the planet Earth. They have changed, manipulated, and misinterpreted verses in the Bible to suite their evil goals. Another issue that Ms. Halsell talks frankly about is the “13th Tribe” in which she quotes Arthur Koestler, the author of the book, “The Thirteenth Tribe” in which he gives historical facts on how the current Jews in Israel are really non-Semitic because they are in reality originally East Europeans/Russians who CONVERTED to Judaism. “Forcing God’s Hand” is really a must read for anybody who is concerned with the integrity of Christianity, the preservation of the true teachings of Jesus, and the deadly alliance being forged between the American Christian Right and the Zionists. A truly fascinating book that you would not want to put down, and will give you a wide scope of what really goes behind the scenes. It’s a book that will surely make you stop and think, and start asking tough questions.
http://www.shoah.org.uk/2011/01/11/in-israel-they-shackle-palestinian-children/
Dear Mikey Weinstein: I hope you will write a letter to the NM Jewish Link with the above information. It was very confusing to read that the federation was a co-sponsor of this event. Maybe they don’t realize what he stands for. Hagee does not reflect the opinion of all evangelicals either but Hagee is one loud ostrich. Then again, frenemies make strange bedbugs!
Upsetting. After being raised by fundamentalist Christians, it makes my skin crawl to imagine them in charge of anything. That’s why I love the amendment in the bill of rights about no establishment of religion. To me fundamentalist christianity is the same as sharia law and I want no part of either.
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