God's cursed and doomed America - John Hagee

John Hagee, the Christian wingnut from Texas, has said straight out that God has cursed and doomed America.

Bruce Wilson, in a Talk 2 Action article, "McCain Endorser Pastor John Hagee: God Curse and Doom America," tells the whys and wherefores.

In 1997, Hagee published a book called "Day of Deception." It's a gloomy screed. One of the chapters, 17 pages long, is called "America Under a Curse." In this chapter Hagee writes: "As a nation, America is under the curse of God, even now. Look at the scriptures and see for yourself. The stand we have taken on abortion, the stand we have taken against God in our classrooms, just may have sealed our doom."

Oh, golly gee!

Wilson tells how Hagee describes all sorts of divine curses "that afflict Americans and all of Homo Sapiens - curses on individuals, curses on families, curses on nations and curses on mankind. 'The Curse on America' is neatly organized into subsections for different types of divine curses sapping and damaging America and its people, its culture and economic well-being: God's curses on individuals; God's "curse on America"; "The Curse on the Home"; "The Curse Against People" (Americans generally); "The Curses of The Cities"; "The Economic Curse"; "The Curse of The Plagues"; "The Curse of Servitude".'"

Now unless you're protected "by the blood of Christ that curse will stick." There's a lot of folks who are being cursed right now and probably don't even know it. I had an inkling, though, when I saw the price of gas this afternoon!

But, wait, Wilson isn't through. Hagee, he says, wrote a "later book" which "described a terrible, permanent divine curse upon Jews for worshipping idols."

And then, taking a partial hint from Genesis, Hagee declares that "To work and to sweat ... are the curses of men while menstruation and childbearing are curses of women."


This is the man John McCain speaks so highly of. John McCain went to this man to plead for his endorsement. Wilson says that in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, McCain said that pleading for Hagee's endorsement was "probably" a mistake, but then came right back and said "I'm glad to have it."

Without defending Jeremiah Wright or any other of the religious goofballs in this country of whatever stripe, it doesn't seem to be right that Wright gets so much flack and Hagee, who is clearly much crazier than Wright ever was, pretty much gets a pass from our McCain-loving media.

McCain, I think, needs to get on national television and tell the nation in no uncertain terms that he rejects, refuses and will not accept Hagee's endorsement; that he finds Hagee's beliefs and statements reprehensible, dangerous, unChristian and unworthy of anyone who claims to follow Jesus Christ.

McCain should specifically reject any and all of Hagee's rantings about the end-times, last days, Armageddon, Rapture, invasion of Iran, and any other crap that Hagee spouts about Israel and his love for the Jews or the United States being a Christian nation, or breaking down the wall of separation between church and state.

McCain must tell the nation that he believes Hagee's notions of "curses" are nothing more than despicable threats to terrorize people into his version of the Christian faith, or frighten people into accepting his version of America - a theocratic state where all would be governed by biblical laws and fundamentalist rules.

If McCain doesn't or won't do that, he should be run out of town!


All of Mr. Wilson's article is available here.