John Hagee Sermons

Failures of Intelligence Is Why 'America is Beautiful But She Has An Ugly Side'

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - This citizen of conscience for U.S. House of Representatives 2012 asserts that America’s ugly side is rooted in failures of intelligence, heretical Christianity and a lack of true patriotism, for “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.” -Theodore Roosevelt

“The Crusade for a Christian Military: Jesus Killed Mohammed” By Jeff Sharlet in HARPER’S May 2009 edition was a chilling clarion call regarding the entrenchment of Christian fundamentalism in the USA military that began during the Cold War, accelerated during the Vietnam era and which has wreaked havoc on the very soul of our nation.

Fundamentalist [referred to as evangelical by Sharlet] Chaplains began to join the military in droves as they aligned themselves with the Industrial Military Complex in opposition with Catholics and mainline moderate Protestant denominations such as Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians who were of one voice speaking out against American terrorism in Vietnam and for following in the ways of the nonviolent Jesus.

“Starting in 1987, Protestant denominations were lumped together simply as “Protestant”; moreover, the Pentagon began accrediting hundreds of evangelical and Pentecostal “endorsing agencies,” allowing graduates of fundamentalist Bible colleges—which often train clergy to view those from other faiths as enemies of Christ—to fill up nearly the entire allotment for Protestant chaplains. Today, more than two thirds of the military’s 2,900 active-duty chaplains are affiliated with evangelical or Pentecostal denominations.” [1]

“For decades, the military built a sense of solidarity out of a singular purpose, the Cold War struggle between free markets and state-planned economies—the shining city on a hill versus the evil empire…meshed neatly with ideologies [that connected] nationalism and fundamentalism…Communism…the dark alternative should we fail to unite. Fundamentalism thrived…a neat, black-and-white [theology and] a foreign policy. The end of the Cold War deprived militant evangelicals of that clarity [and] the emergence of “radical Islam” [became] the object of a new Cold War.” [Ibid]

The roots of American evangelism sprang from the original altar call for Christians to stand up against slavery. What has been passing for Christianity in our military today is the antithesis of what Jesus was all about.

Local protesters crash mega-church pastor John Hagee's “honor to ...

John Hagee’s Cornerstone mega-church grew tense Sunday as over a dozen protesters infiltrated the pews and spoke up during the pastor’s “honor to Israel” sermon, slamming the evangelical pastor for funneling millions of dollars to pro-Israel causes.

Shouting slogans like, “Genocide does not bring honor to Israel,” and, “How many olive trees have been uprooted with your tithes?” fifteen local protesters were dragged out of Hagee’s congregation Sunday. Dropping leaflets from the mega-church balcony with the names and faces of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict, the protesters accused Hagee of sponsoring Israeli occupation and violence in the volatile West Bank.

Hagee started his powerful and influential charity Christians United for Israel in 2006, and has since publicly claimed to have raised millions of dollars for Zionist causes. Hagee has also claimed to have directed millions toward Jewish settlers hoping to plant roots in the West Bank and occupied territories, fueling one of the most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and one of the clearest obstacles to peace.

At odds with many even on the political right, Hagee and his organization have publicly rejected any two-state solution to solve the tense Israeli-Palestinian standoff, saying all of Israel and the Palestinian  territories are God-given to the Jewish state.

Hagee’s sermon, and the protest that briefly stopped it, was meant to mark an anniversary that supporters of Israel celebrate, though it’s a date that Palestinian activists have come to mourn.

Every year around mid-May, many Israelis and die-hard supporters like Hagee commemorate the State of Israel’s founding in 1948. Conversely, Palestinians observe “the nakba,” meaning catastrophe in Arabic, to remember Israel’s declaration of independence and the war that followed, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were either expelled from their homes or fled amid the violence.

Genevieve Rodriguez, one of the protesters detained after disrupting Hagee’s sermon Sunday, said the point was to stand in solidarity with Palestinians, whom she said were “victims of racism, hate and occupation.”

“We, as organizers, wanted to come together and peacefully call attention to the lies [Hagee] was speaking in that sermon,” she said. Ironically, as church security rushed to drag the shouting protesters away from the congregation, Hagee remarked, “This is what the liberal left does. They believe in freedom of speech, but not for anybody but themselves.

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