A few days ago I was watching the televangelist Rev. John Hagee (or, as I prefer to call him, the “Fat Bastard”); during his customary and crazed foam-at-the-mouth sermon, he looked into the camera, his fat face contorted and bulging with obvious hate and screeched the following sentence: “listen to me you bed sheet wearing crooks: you’re going straight to Hell!” To which his mostly African-American and Hispanic audience (I only see a handful of humans in attendance when the camera paused on his decidedly non-White congregation) gave him a hearty round of riotous applause – the humans in attendance remained seated and didn’t seem to enjoy themselves as much as the biological fauna, they remained on their seats and didn’t clap along.

Now, there’s little doubt that Rev. John Hagee is a wild-eyed dispensationalist and overall fruitcake. Further, he’s an extreme Zionist, always very eager to point out that “Israel has no better friend” than him, he constantly talks about his “many Jewish friends”, he meets with Jewish authorities and activists regularly and goes on frequent trips to Israel in order to meet Israeli government officials. This Judeo-Christian Zionist enjoys peppering his sermons with all kinds of obsequious philo-Semitic sentiments (“Jews are gods in human form” or “It is the duty of every American to make the world safe for Israel and to die for her if need be” – I’m only slightly exaggerating).

As an aside, the Fat Bastard regularly slights real Christians buy flatly stating that those unhappy beings that do not adhere to the dispensationalist heresy (i.e., the “Rapture bunnies’) are doing the Devil’s work, because Satan hates it when the Rapture is being taught. Never mind that Catholics, the Orthodox and traditionalist, mainline Protestant denominations reject the dispensationalist doctrine, and no one even heard of it before the nineteenth century. See http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-religion/1043352/posts

Now, if all that wasn’t enough, Rev. John Hagee also is a proponent of the “Two Covenant” view (first introduced in the 1920s and 1930s by the Jew Franz Rosenzweig). This heresy essentially boils down to an independent ethnic salvation for Jews, i.e., the Special People don’t need to accept Christ as their Lord and Saviour to be saved because they already have a separate and valid covenant with God. For those who are interested to read more about this heresy (a heresy that obviously flies in the face of standard Christian teaching that stipulates that everyone needs to accept Christ in order to be saved – Jews included), see the following excellent (albeit lengthy) article at http://www.pfo.org/jonhagee.htm

My question is mostly addressed to the Klan people: how do you feel about so-called Pastors who show you nothing but hatred and contempt?

Also, is it not a bit presumptious to claim knowing who is, and who is not, going to Hell? I thought that only God knew that.