Pastor and televangelist John Hagee, BFF of John McCain and perennial anti-Semite, has been at it again. Specifically, the blogosphere has been making note of a sermon Hagee gave in the late 1990s in which he blamed the Jews for the Holocaust because of their spiritually dead souls. God was apparently sending Hitler and the Nazis to eliminate those Jews who, because of their spiritually dead souls, did not move to Israel with the original Zionists.
That these outrageous comments and beliefs are still confined to a small corner of the online world and haven’t been getting the kind of press that Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright has been enjoying, I can only attribute to (a) the so-called liberal media’s ongoing love affair with McCain and (b) the incredible wealth and power of Hagee’s ministry and media empire.
Money quote: “How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, ‘My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.’ Today Israel is back in the land … They are physically alive but they’re not spiritually alive.”
Full transcript and video (YouTube video of audio recording of sermon) after the jump.
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