Dear friend,
As people of faith we have been deeply concerned with the extremist ideology of Pastor John Hagee and his organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). The latest revelation of Pastor Hagee's claim that the Antichrist is Jewish, makes us believe we need to speak out to let our voices of protest be heard.
What we are asking is that all politicians follow the lead of Senator McCain to disassociate themselves from Pastor Hagee and CUFI, noting that the extremist views he represents are not representative of the great majority of the American public, and certainly not of the great majority of Christians and Jews.
We are asking that you join your voices with ours in "signing" this statement to be published by the end of June on a prominent blogsite.
To let your voice be heard simply click on the "comments" link below (with the number in front). When you get in you'll see a box for "comments." In this box put your name, title and/or address. Sign in as "anonymous" unless you have a google account. That's all. No need for comments. Your signature is comment enough. Please do so ASAP as we want to publish this by the end of June.
Thanks for speaking out!
www.christianzionism.org
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A Statement from Concerned Christians and Jews
Psalm 122 – Pray for the peace of
We have concluded that John Hagee is a poor representative of how faith can inform discernment regarding public life and discourse surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is regrettable that any public figure would choose to be associated with Pastor Hagee or his organization, CUFI. We were surprised to learn that three elected officials are scheduled to speak at CUFI's upcoming "Washington-Israel Summit": Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY), and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT). We call on each of these elected officials to disassociate themselves from the extremist views of Pastor Hagee and withdraw from this event.
We feel they should do so for the following reasons:
- Pastor Hagee has claimed that supporting the State of Israel is "God's foreign policy." But his work to support the State of Israel does little than ensure that Israel's conflict with the Palestinians and its other Arab neighbors will continue into perpetuity given his adamant opposition to a negotiated peace.
- He prays for the peace of Jerusalem, but not its shalom, as he looks forward instead to the false peace established through a treaty offered by the Antichrist, whom, we now know,Pastor Hagee believes must himself be a Jew.
- Just as his ideology blames Jewish unbelief in Jesus for their centuries of suffering at the hands of Christians and provides a simplistic justification for the Holocaust (also based on Jewish intransigence), Pastor Hagee has again found a way to blame Jews for their own demise . . . this time at the hands of their self-supplied Antichrist.
- In this political season, Pastor Hagee's radical views were first exposed by his description of the Roman Catholic Church as a "false cult system" that is the "Great Whore" of Revelation 17 and 18. Ignored in most media coverage of this controversy was the fact that these attacks on Catholicism were central to Pastor Hagee's ideological Christian Zionism.
- Pastor Hagee's support for the State of Israel is at the expense of many others, including the Roman Catholic Church. Now, it has become clearer than ever before that Pastor Hagee's support for the State of Israel comes even at the expense of Jews.
Signed by:
156 comments:
the Rev. John Hubers
PhD Candidate
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
L. Michael Spath, D.Min., Ph.D.
Religious Studies Program
Department of Philosophy
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
Ann Wagner
Concerned Citizen
Phoenix, Arizona
How do I get HAWKish, smoothbore Sen. Kyl to take a good look at how Hagee's endorsement destroys the health of the of the Party?
This comment by Hagee is an embarrassment to Christian theology and to the church. Moreover it is dangerous. The Antichrist is a role played by those who oppose Christ -- and in eschatology it is the role of a singular person who has embraced this opposition as a vocation. To say that The Antichrist is a Jew is not only indefensible but incendiary. Jews should be profoundly offended and disturbed and see what horrors Christian Zionists like Hagee actually promote.
As an Evangelical, this is an important moment for Christians to stand with Judaism and speak out against such ill-informed and destructive teaching like that of Hagee.
Gary M. Burge, Ph.D.
Professor of New Testament
Wheaton College & Graduate School
Eileen Fleming
Editor and Chief Correspondent
wearewideawake.org
Dr. Stan Moody
Baptist Minister
Director of the Christian Policy Institute
Former Maine State Representative
Gregory C. Brownfield
We need more politicians and church leaders to disassociate themselves from people like Hagee. People like that need to be marginalized.
Rev. Marlin P Vis,
Representative of the Reformed Church in America in Jerusalem
Pauline M. Coffman, Ed.D.
Concerned American who seeks a just peace for Israel and Palestine.
The Rev. Arthur Preisinger, Ph.D.
Retired Pastor/Professor
Houston, Texas
There will be security for Israel when there's justice for the Palestinians.
Revd Dr Stephen R. Sizer,
Christ Church,
Virginia Water,
Surrey,
England
Vicar of Virginia Water and author of Christian Zionism and Zion's Christian Soldiers (IVP)
the Rev. Ann E. Helmke
peaceCENTER
San Antonio, TX
Anna Baltzer
Author, Witness in Palestine
St Louis, MO
www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com
Matthew Ley
Seminary Student
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Todd Steele
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
Fort Wayne, IN
I can't call Pastor Hagee Christian in any real sense of the word. The ideas he endorses are most definitely not Christian. He does a huge diservice to the United States, Israel, and the millions who desperately want peace in the Middle East
Donald W. Beattie, Ph.D.
Patricia Pendleton
Fort Wayne, IN
Kathy Anderson
Chicago, IL
Calvin K. Claus
Forgive this poor man, Hagee, for he discerns not the damage done by his intemperate words.
Rev. Jean Marie Duran
Living Lord Lutheran Church
1044 Congress Dr.
Bartlett, IL.
Joseph & Joan Mahon
Young Harris, GA 30582
Sandy & Charlie Mays, Retired RN and ELCA pastor, Everett, WA. For a sense of how such ideologies effect the Palestinian people, we recommend the just published "Palestine Inside OUt: An Everyday Occupation" by Saree Makdisi
John Bagley, Director, Independent Productions
Pastor John Stendahl
Lutheran Church of the Newtons
Newton, MA
As a lay person whose use of scripture is likely worse "proof-texting" than is Mr. Hagee's wont, I quote Jesus: "Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom" (Matt. 21.43). The fruits of the kingdom are neither the kind of arrogant personal judgment Mr. Hagee makes on both Jews and homosexuals---nor the violence against Palestinians that he supports.
Harold A. Knight, PhD
English Department
Southern Methodist University
Daoud of Naperville
It is time for the real Christians to stop the Zionist Christians and help keep the Arab Christians in Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Faye Bennett
For several years I have adamantly objected to the Jewish Community's embrace of this bigoted hate-monger, lamenting their false notion that he is both good for the Jews and good for Israel. He is destructive to both, and casting aside values that have served us well for generations, for the sake of a few measly donations from a man who has enriched himself through false prophecy, is truly a Shanda...A great shame.
Cantor Steve Puzarne
Awad Paul Sifri
Naperville, IL.
Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
Diana Hasna
A very concerned American Christian
Barbara Moody
The Rev. Susan F. Sprowls
Lord of Light Lutheran Church
Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Douglas A. Howard
Professor of History
Calvin College
Ken Ewald
Concerned Christian
San Antonio, TX
Habeeb G. Awad
Hope College
Holland, Michigan
Working together on this issue is a good way to abscise John Hagee's militant theology that does not represent the spirit of Christ.
Scott Thams
Concerned Christian
Clarkston, MI
We need to work for a just and lastly peace not more division.
Susan Greenwood
As a lay minister I deplore the bizarre fulminations of John Hagee and the damage they do to the image of the gospel of love preached by Jesus.
Rev. Ron McCreary
John Wesley United Methodist Church
Tallahassee, FL USA
This pernicious movement needs to be exposed, its anti-Christian positions made clear and denounced in the strongest possible terms. Rev. John Kleinheksel (retired, RCA, PCUSA)
Prof. Aryeh Cohen
Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
American Jewish University
Rabbi David E. S. Stein
Santa Monica, CA, USA
I am profoundly concerned that Hagee perpetuates the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. As Jews we need friends that will help us reach a compromise with the Palestinians and end the violence and loss of life on all sides of the conflict. Religious leaders that use the teachings of their faith to perpetuate conflict and violence must be challenged with the religious conviction that God and our respective traditions call us to work for peace.
"The Torah is a Tree of Life
And all its pathways lead to Peace"
Rabbi Joseph Klein
Oak Park MI
Thank you for exposing the weird ideas of Pastor John Hagee.
Rabbi Mark Hurvitz
www.davka.org
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster
New York, NY
Rabbi Bruce Bromberg Seltzer
Chaplain, Smith College
Religious Advisor, Amherst College
Rev. Douglas Johnstone
Lutheran Pastor
Long Beach, CA
Alan J. Weisbard
Associate Professor of Law, Bioethics, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
There are multiple paths to the Divine, and they deserve mutual respect. All those paths must be paths of peace. Good faith negotiations, not unending violence, are the proper path.
Rebecca and Igor Mikhaylov
Los Angeles, CA
Cynthia Magdalena Perez
Whittier, CA
The Rev. Bruce W. Gray
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
Whittier, CA.
Eugene Wollaston
concerned citizen
Naperville, IL
Rabbi Jeffrey Marker
Brooklyn, NY
Raymond E. Meyer
Falls Church, VA
As a Jew committed to working in concert with Christians and Muslims I am appalled by Pastor Hagee's views
Barbara and Phil James
Sun City, Arizona
Karen Brodkin, Prof Emerita
Anthropology Dept
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Bill Peltz
member, St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Albany NY
Rabbi Dr. Joan S. Friedman
Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies / Campus Rabbi
College of Wooster
Wooster, OH
Dr. Karen Anderson
Christian Psychologist
San Diego, Ca
Lois M. Mousel
Christian Attorney
San Diego, Ca
Deborah Hammond
Presbyterian Peace and Justice
San Diego, Ca
Linda Sellman
Los Angeles, Ca
Robert Livermonk
Fred Brauer
Oceanside, Ca
Susan-Louise Fessender BrauerOceanside, Ca
Marcello Mundo Jr,
Oceanside, Ca
Penny Darvis
Spring Vally, Ca
Jeanne Runner
1st United Methodist
San Diego, Ca
Alberta Christian
Torrey Pines Christian Church
San Diego, Ca
Ronn Garton
Presbyterian of SD
San Diego, Ca
Dorothy Marton
San Diego, Ca
Mike Peled
Colorado
David Brown
Rancho Santa Fe
Sam Nichols
San Diego, Ca
Chuck Radloh
San Diego, Ca
Anthony Howe
San Diego, Ca
Naim Ateek
Sabeel
Jerusalem
Mikel Taxer
San Diego, Ca
Tom Sammray
St. Joseph Peace and JusticeOakland, Ca
Nancy Novak
S.D Israeli Palestinian Dialogue Group
San Diego, Ca
Jim Marino
Jamil Elbanna
Marta T. Reilly
Mary Yoder
Tony Litwinke
David Dolnick
Dick Bureson
Bob Metzger
Nancy Harber
Alisson Nabali
Robert
Niane Venegan
Brianna Sheets
Jonathan Halladan
Jenna Tomlinson
Cynthia Lucero
Pamela Cordes
Jay Zhu
Geoffrey Hsu
Charles Bon
Dave Walker
Virginia Wofford
Sue Randerson
Elizabeth Lasley
Nadia Saad Bettendorf
James C. Bettendorf
Theodore von der Ahe, Jr.
Su Kvan
Shebla Shresta
Kristle Bulleman
Deb Mitchell
Sabeel San Diego
San Diego, Ca
Hannef Salaam
Masjidul Taqwa
San Diego, Ca
Wali Fardan
Masjidul Taqwa
San Diego, Ca
Jeanne Runner
1st United Methodist Church
San Diego, Ca
Roger K. Graham
St. Dunstan’s Briscopal Church
San Diego, Ca
Marcello M. Jr.
Fred & Mandy’s Neighbor Braner
K.J Marshall, M.D
Westminster Presbyterian
San Diego, Ca
Margaret Johnston
Elder, Westminster Presbyterian
San Diego, Ca
Kyle Holberg
Presbyterian
San Diego, Ca
Adam Sheets
University of California
Los Angeles
Mikel Taxer
Presbyterian Pastor, Retired
San Diego, Ca
Anthony Howe
San Diego, Ca
Kathryn Musso
Carlsbad
Jane ElFarra
Shadow Hills
Susan Randerson
San Diego, Ca
Hank Krams
Valley Cener, Ca
Kent Acord
Carol McWhinney
University of Laverne
Whittier, Ca
Dana Messinger
Delaware
Jeanette Christian
San Diego, Ca
Alberta Christian
San Diego, Ca
Doni Heyn-Lamb
Middle East Ministry
Pasadena, Ca
Diana Bandak
Fosna San Diego
San Diego, Ca
Terry Kok
San Marcos, Ca
Nasim Khoury
Pasadena, Ca
Arnie Sheets
San Diego, Ca
Ibrahim Daxeh
El Cajon, Ca
Richard Toll
Friends of Sabeel North AmericaPortland, Or
Rev. Darrel Meyers
Burbank, Ca
Vicki Tamoush
Tustin, Ca
Barry Fibel
6933 43rd Loop SE
Lacey. WA 98503
360-491-8646
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itsbob
Computer Specialist
Maryland
Hagee is a very dangerous man who definitely DOES NOT live within the light of the Christ Spirit, and his hateful practises and beliefs are anathema to true Christianity and to God's Beautiful Creation, the world, itself.
Sadly, many Jews believe that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." This is the logic that led many Europeans to embrace the Nazis as a bulwark against Bolshivism.
John Hagee is one of the most hateful people I have ever seen in my life. He is everything that true Christianity is not!
Laura Tanner EMT-B
Austin, TX
Frances Stewart, MD
Bethesda, MD
John Hagee in his ad on youtube for his book "In Defense of Israel" plainly said that Jesus did not come to be the Messiah. Only an antichrist could say such a thing. Isn't that statement much worse than his belief that the antichrist will be Jewish? What if he had said that the antichrist will be a Russian, or an Iraqi, or an Iranian, or Indian, or Chinese? Would that be as offensive to the Christian Zionists or to the Jews? Is God a respecter of persons like so many "evangelicals" and Jews are?
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