In encouraging the U.S. to defend the nation of Georgia, why did John McCain insist on labeling Georgia a "Christian Nation"?
[Irwin Tang is the author of Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters, available at amazon.com and irwinbooks.com]
McCain gave an interview to belief.com, and the website does not indicate on what date the interview was given. That is interesting. What is more interesting is what belief.com omitted from its so-called "transcript" of the interview.
McCain was asked whether the President of the United States should be Christian. McCain said, "Personally, I prefer someone who I know has a solid grounding in my faith [Christianity]. I feel that my faith is a better spiritual guide-- better spiritual guidance." Belief.com left out the second sentence.
McCain says that Christianity provides better spiritual guidance than other religions. But among the Christian leaders, who does McCain seek spiritual guidance from?
McCain has called the religious extremists John Hagee and Rod Parsley his spiritual guides. Hagee, whom McCain actively sought support from, invited McCain to rally the Christian soldiers, so to speak, last year, and McCain was glad to oblige, giving a speech at Hagee's CUFI organization that seemed to call for war against Iran, Syria, AND Russia.
No wonder Hagee said at one point that McCain "got it." McCain matches Hagee's own passion to start a war against Iran.
Hagee believes that a war against Iran (and against Islam) will bring on the great end-times and the Armageddon and Judgment Day, during which time God will send all the non-Christians to hell if they do not convert. So when Hagee organized his "Christians United For Israel" organization, he did not call it "Christians United For Jews." He's pro-Israel, as the United States working with Israel can certainly create a cataclysmic war against Islam.
On the other hand, not all Jews want such a war. And such wars will only hurt the Jewish people. After all, those living in Israel and abroad may be killed in such a war. Jews will be drafted into an Israeli Army and Air Fore that would suffer numerous casualties.
Rod Parsley is similar to Hagee in his belief that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and founded to fight an end-all war against Islam.
So it is no surprise that McCain also believes that the United States was founded as a "Christian Nation" and that the most important requirment for our next president, as he told belief.com, is that he continue the Judeo-Christian tradition of this nation.
Presumably, this may mean sacrificing the "Judeo" people and the Islamic people (those who follow "the Islam" as McCain called the religion). Jews and Muslims will be the people who die first in McCain and Lieberman's vision of their glorious war in defense of Christianity.
And here we get to McCain's insisting that Georgia is a "Christian Nation." He and Randy Scheunemann, his top foreign policy adviser, began convincing Americans to invade Iraq as early as 1998 and lobbied hard for an Iraq War just days after September 11, 2001.
By framing a possible war with Russia as a war to defend a "Christian Nation," McCain brings to mind that we and the Georgians and the other Christian Nations are in a religious, time-ending war against Islam (and Barack Obama).
This not only matches his and Hagee's apparent beliefs, but also rallies the extremists and encourages good Christians to think in an anti-Jesus way: us versus them. Encouraging a Cold War us-versus-them viewpoint, McCain told Hagee's CUFI group that he only saw three letters in the eyes of Vladimir Putin: KGB.
McCain also sent his lackey - the Jewish American Senator Joe Lieberman - to rally Hagee's Christians United For Israel soldiers, to encourage them in their continuing war against Islam.
Lieberman apparently wanted to assure the CUFI soldiers that despite McCain caving in to media pressure and distancing himself from Hagee, McCain still loves Hagee (McCain said to Hagee, "I love you . . . thank you for your spriritual guidance"). Lieberman spoke of the strength of "the bond" between Hagee and "brother Joseph" as Lieberman called himself.
Last year, Lieberman rallied Hagee's minions by comparing Hagee to Moses, calling Hagee a "man of God" in Hebrew.
So Hagee is now a prophet, huh?
How do McCain and Lieberman feel about Hagee's prophet-esque interpretation of the Holocaust - that "Hitler and the Nazis were sent by God, to chase Jews back to the land of Israel" and that Hurrican Katrina was sent by God to kill the sinful?
Does God hate Blacks and Jews? If McCain and Lieberman do not believe so, then why rally the minions of John Hagee?
How do other Jewish Americans feel about McCain and Lieberman's "bond" with John Hagee? Apparently not the same as Lieberman, as a petition of 40,000 moderate Jews was sent to Lieberman begging him not to speak at the CUFI conference.
McCain wants to "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" and use cigarettes to "kill" the Iranian people just as John Hagee wants to start the Armageddon war against Iran. McCain divides up the world into "Christian Nations" and "Muslim Nations" and believes that the U.S. is a "Christian Nation," just like the extremists Hagee and Parsley do.
And the Jews and Muslims are caught in the middle, ready to be bombed, and so are all the Christians who would die in a war between the United States and any nation. After all, most of our soldiers are Christian. But that does not make them Christian Soldiers or Soldiers for Christ.
We've done enough killing in the name of the Messiah.
Irwin Tang is the author of Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters, available at amazon.com and irwinbooks.com
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