{"id":6288,"date":"2011-11-05T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T07:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/the-gop-and-extreme-anti-semitism\/"},"modified":"2011-11-05T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T07:02:06","slug":"the-gop-and-extreme-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/the-gop-and-extreme-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP and Extreme Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sometimes amazed at the hypocrisy of how Republican supply-side pseudo-Christians express love and support for Israel.  Lurking just behind most are highly anti-Semitic.  Here\u2019s the key.  In extreme fundamentalist eschatological dogma, Israel must occupy the holy land and rebuild the temple before Jesus can return.  However, they believe that, when he does, the majority of the Jews will become crispy critters.  So their so-called love for Israel does not extend to Jews.  Currently, Republican candidates for President are fighting tooth and nail for the endorsements of the most extreme anti-Semites, such as Mike Bickel.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"5RickPerryNazi\"Has the GOP primary gone off the rails before the first vote has even been cast?<\/font><\/p>\n

In 2008, Sen. John McCain rejected the endorsement<\/a> <\/font>of John Hagee, a far-right pastor who had called the Catholic Church the "Great Whore<\/a><\/font>" and said that Hitler was sent by God<\/a><\/font> to be a "hunter" of Jews who had not yet moved to the land that would become Israel. McCain wasn’t exactly running as a moderate – look who he chose to be his vice president – but he knew, at least this time, that a line had been crossed.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Today’s GOP presidential candidates seem to have no such scruples.<\/font><\/p>\n

Compare Hagee’s statements to this passage from a 2004 sermon by Mike Bickle, megachurch pastor, big-time evangelical, and star speaker at Rick Perry’s August prayer rally-cum-campaign launch. In a video<\/a> <\/font>found by Brian Wilson of Talk to Action, Bickle prophesies that in the End Times 2\/3 of all Jews "will die in the rage of Satan and in the judgments of God." He goes on to discuss a disturbing and ultimately dangerous theory of the Holocaust even more outrageous than that pushed by Hagee:<\/font><\/p>\n

The Lord says, "I’m going to offer two strategies to Israel, to these 20 million." He says, "First, I am going to offer them grace, I am going to send the fisherman." Do you know how a fisherman lures? I mean do you know how a fisherman does their thing? They have the bait in front, luring the fish. It’s a picture of grace. … And he says, "And if they don’t respond to grace, I’m going to raise up the hunters." And the most famous hunter in recent history is a man named Adolf Hitler. <\/strong><\/span>He drove them from the hiding places, he drove them out of the land.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mike Bickle is not just any radical pastor preaching End Times scripture. He was a key organizer<\/a> <\/font>of Perry’s The Response<\/em><\/span> rally this summer, lending a number of staff members of his International House of Prayer (yes, IHOP) to the event and emceeing the proceedings himself\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Let me correct one detail.  Before  McConJob and Mooseolini rejected Hagee\u2019s endorsement, they actively sought it out.  McConJob even visited Hagee\u2019s church to do obeisance.  Once the story broke, McConJob defended Hagee.  He only rejected Hagee\u2019s endorsement after the story refused to go away and was hurting his campaign.<\/font><\/p>\n

McConJob is a model of tolerance, compared to the current crop of ideologues seeking the GOP nomination.  That he considered it so important to get such an endorsement identifies the level of moral bankruptcy to which the Republican Party has fallen.  The notion that Presidential candidates are aligning themselves with people who glorify Hitler for his treatment of Jews puts me at a loss for words.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am sometimes amazed at the hypocrisy of how Republican supply-side pseudo-Christians express love and support for Israel.  Lurking just behind most are highly anti-Semitic.  Here\u2019s the key.  In extreme fundamentalist eschatological dogma, Israel must occupy the holy land and rebuild the temple before Jesus can return.  However, they believe that, when he does, the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}