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John McCain Says Whoa, John Hagee Says Poor
Misunderstood Me
By Charles E. Carlson
ccun.org, May 29, 2008
The most positive lasting revelation from the election campaign of
2008 may be the exposure of the hatred hidden within Christian
Zionism!
Professing followers of Jesus' teachings, regardless of church,
mosque, or denomination, should examine the deliberate and
calculated words of these two pastors who have recently made the
major news by endorsing John McCain for President, and in being
rejected by the pragmatic McCain. Their statements, as correctly
quoted by the Washington Post, have become a political mortification
to him, and we examine why.
This essence of Christ's teachings is abandoned by John Hagee, Rod
Parsley, and many Judeo-Christian pastors like them, in their
undisguised hatred for Islam, and their open political campaign to
destroy Iran. They defy Jesus’ most basic tenet, His one
Commandment, to love one's brother, even one’s enemy, as you would
love yourself.
The Washington Post quoted McCain in a May 22nd story, McCain
Rejects Pastor's Backing Over Remarks, “I just think that
the statement is crazy and unacceptable,� adding that while
“Pastor Hagee is entitled to his views, he does not want to be
affiliated with them."
The Post reported: “Hagee has called the Catholic Church a
‘false religious system’ and a "false cult system" and has
suggested that the church played a role in the Holocaust.�
Hagee is well known for his support of all wars against Muslim
countries, for his recent call to bomb Iran, and for his unwavering
apology for, and support of Israel's brutality in occupying
Palestine. He is the founder of Christians United For Israel.
McCain was also publicly endorsed by mega-church pastor Rod Parsley.
According to the Post story, in one sermon, posted on YouTube,
Parsley described what he said is "our historical conflict with
Islam," adding that "America was founded, in part, with the
intention of seeing this false religion destroyed."
The Washington Post story reported, "Asked about the two preachers
Thursday, he (McCain) said: 'I've never been to Pastor Hagee's
church or Pastor Parsley's church,' adding: 'I received their
endorsement, which doesn't mean I endorse their views."'
The Post reported: “Sen. John McCain on Thursday repudiated the
presidential endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee after learning about
a sermon in which the mega church pastor from San Antonio declared
that God allowed the rise of Adolf Hitler because it resulted in
returning Israel to the Jewish people.�
Post continues: “Hagee issued his own statement Thursday, saying
that he was withdrawing his endorsement to prevent any further
damage to the presumptive GOP nominee's candidacy.�
Both John Hagee and Rod Parsley are on record as favoring and even
campaigning for a preemptive strike on Iran for the benefit of the
state of Israel.
It would take a lot of space to examine the distortions and outright
contradictions of Jesus’ teachings found in the writings of Hagee
and Parsley, and this writer has already written a great deal about
Hagee. We Hold These Truths has led public vigils defending
the truth of Jesus' words at no less than five of Hagee's events. Parsley‘s
church in Columbus, Ohio has yet to be scheduled.
It is fitting that we add one revealing experience with Pastor Rod
Parsley that took place five years ago which reflect on his
character and general credibility. One of our senior advisers
deliberately invested $35.00 of his own money for a donation to Rod
Parsley missions in order to document the amazing fact that this
pastor was using commercial telephone solicitors to panhandle money
for the stated purpose of freeing slaves in Sudan. We knew at the
time there were no slaves there to buy, and if by chance there was
one, the price tag for a slave would be a lot more than $35.00.
The funds raised in some US churches to free "slaves in Sudan" was
revealed to be enormous. Money given was shared between the
soliciting missionaries and the revolutionary soldiers in Sudan who
acted out the role of slaves traders for a day. The soldiers
involved were controlled by John Garang de Mabior, who then operated
a revolution in southern Sudan. They were ready for a quick cash
profit in US dollars.
Garang's lieutenants staged phony slave swaps for the benefit of the
church cameras, pretending to be Arab government agents from the
“north.� Those good hearted church goers who put up the money
were told the slaves were “Christians� (black), and that the
slave traders were Arab Muslims (also black). Thus the phony slave
trade was billed as a Muslim vs. Christian war. Local Sudanese
villagers, some with chains and ropes around their necks, filled the
bit part role of slaves for a day, presumably for a stipend.
These films clips were later shown in US churches, like that of Rod
Parsley, to pry loose even more dollars from sympathetic Christians,
and were circulated in US government circles to gain support for the
revolution in Southern Sudan. To this end Parsley’s hatred for
Islam came into play.
Garang was acceptable to Christian Zionists because he was not
Muslim, calling himself either an atheist or a Christian, depending
on who you asked. The Government of Sudan was and is predominantly
Muslim, so Paisley and other Muslim hating Christian Zionists
received the added satisfaction of undermining an Islamic government
while they filled the plate.
Before “Shock and Awe“, We Hold These Truths spent much time
proving the slave trade to be a scam. Our adviser, Travis Steele,
volunteered to buy a phony slave from Parsley for the record, and
did so with his Visa card. Years later several involved American
"Christians" and some churches finally came clean and stated there
had been no slaves to free in Sudan...they "had been fooled."
The slave illusion was boosted, if not originated, by a well-funded
British citizen calling herself Baroness Caroline Cox, whose
interest was clearly furthering a revolution in southern Sudan in
quest of its oil wealth. The Clinton Administration promoted the
slave rumors, as a tool to discredit the Sudanese government and
justify placing sanctions on it. It worked; eventually John Garage
was accepted as a "Vice President" of Sudan, he later died in 1985
in an air accident.
Thus, un-Christian hatred of men like Parsley toward Muslims, was
used by our own government to foster revolution against the
Government of Sudan. Far from freeing slaves, the "Mail-order
Missionaries," as we called them in our own report, Missionaries,
Mercenaries, Missiles and Money, instead caused the death and misery
of black tribesmen in Sudan.
Project Strait Gate suggests that followers of Christ do, for moral
if not for Christian reasons, what politician McCain is
pragmatically doing. We should all abandon Hagee, Parsley, and
other false teachers whose distortion of Jesus’ words would lead
us to race hatred and war against Islam because it is Islam.
Project Strait Gate’s volunteers have staged interventions, Vigils
for Peace with Justice at several of John Hagee's Night to Honor
Israel meetings, and his Sunday services at his church in San
Antonio, Texas. As we said, Parsley's mega-church in Columbus,
Ohio has not yet been scheduled. We are looking for a vigil
team leader in Ohio. Project Strait Gate’s most recent
intervention was held by an all volunteer team at an avowed
Christian Zionist church In Paramus N J. *
The eventual results of the Presidential election of 2008 will
probably prove to be less important than the vital question of
whether or not 70 million “Christians� can rescue their faith
from the corruption called Christian Zionism.
End notes:
Washington Post:
McCain Rejects Pastor's Backing Over Remarks:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203141.html?
wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
Slavery in Sudan*
Intervention: Project Strait Gate (a companion mission)
Christian Zionist church In Paramus N J. *
http://whtt.org/straitgate/index.php?id=14&news=1
Missionaries, Mercenaries, Missiles and Money, by Charles E.
Carlson,
http://whtt.org/index.php? news=2&id=236
Oil for the
Taking - Part II
Charles E. Carlson Oct 01, 2000
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=214
We Hold These Truths
Project Strait Gate
PO Box 14491
Scottsdale, AZ, 85267
http://www.whtt.org
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