Pastor John Hagee to Atheists: Gladly Accept My Christmas Tidings or ‘Leave The Country’
Source: The Raw Story Thursday, December 26, 2013 13:43ET
Texas megachurch Pastor John Hagee this week advised atheists who didnt like Christmas to leave the country or take your Walkman and stuff it into your ears. In a sermon at his Cornerstone Church, Hagee warned that Christmas is under attack in America because government offices were greeting people with Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.
To all humanists and atheists listening to this telecast: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will not be in danger in any way if someone says Merry Christmas around you.agee noted that some would argue that Merry Christmas was really a Christian prayer.
Well, yes it is, he said. And this is the United States of America that was founded by Christians on Christian principles according to the word of God. Hagee also had some advice for those atheists who found themselves in proximity of a Nativity scene.
If you pass a manger scene and someone is singing Joy to the World, you can take your Walkman and stuff it into your ears, the megachurch pastor recommended. Or you can call your lawyer. Or you can just exercise your right to leave the country. Planes are leaving every hour on the hour. Get on one! Hagee exclaimed. Its time for the majority to rule this nation!
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/26/pastor-john-hagee-to-atheists-gladly-accept-my-christmas-tidings-or-leave-the-country/
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)n/t
frylock
(34,825 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)With a chainsaw.
TlalocW
(15,383 posts)As its obvious as some of them are not trying to be nice and welcoming in order to encourage more people to join. Instead they're just trying to hang on to what they've got - or at least the continually pissed off segment of their members.
TlalocW
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)And they're the ones that write the really fat checks that line his pockets.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)So many more to trick into making this gas bag bloated with cash
onehandle
(51,122 posts)ROME Pope Francis used the first Christmas address of his papacy on Wednesday to make a broad call for global peace and an end to violence in Syria and parts of Africa, urging atheists and followers of other religions to join together in this common cause.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/world/europe/popes-christmas-message-for-atheists.html
big_dog
(4,144 posts)According to Pope Francis, it doesnt matter whether you are a heterosexual or a homosexual, a pro-lifer or pro-choicer, conservative or liberal or even a communist, because they all worship the same divine God and he loves them all. he 77-year-old Pope continued to say that God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God http://allchristiannews.com/pope-francis-all-religions-are-true/
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Why doesn't Hagee leave the country .. and take all his freaky congregation with him..
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)If he wants to take some of the tax dollars I provide him to finance my move out of the country, I'd be willing to go.
Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)Bible and then selectively interpreted them. Because if I didn't know better, I'd swear that little tirade was full of vindictiveness and bitterness. Not so much love for his fellow humans. A shining example of today's Christian. Do they hear what I hear? A jerk and a bully. But not so much the teachings of Jesus.
christx30
(6,241 posts)"Christanity for people that wear pointy hats, and are not the Pope." Ghost written by Nathan B. Forrest
kiranon
(1,727 posts)And, dangerous too. This country was founded on the separation of church and state because the founding fathers were well aware of persons like Pastor John Hagee.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Tell people the must follow him, or simply be who he was and let people follow him if they chose to do so?
This pastor is a bigot. And it is christian 'leaders' such as this that have turned so many people off, not just to Christianity, but to seeking their own Spirituality.
This guy is like a Nazi for Christ.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)broadcaster75201
(387 posts)Their America is dying. Soon it will be dead. I love this.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)With warm holiday greetings
The President and Mrs. Reagan
1987
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Which 1% does Hagee belong to and support?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)was a godless heathen
Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)he'll be dead and the world will be a better place. Clowns like him do not make a case for believing in God.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Rights is the same constitution which allows the rest of the citizens of the US their religious rights. If Hagee does not want other religions' invading his territory then he should stay out of others rights to religion or the lack of religion.
Helen Highwater
(30 posts)Does anybody here know whether it is that religion makes people insane, or is it that mentally challenged people just seem to gravitate toward idiotic, insular beliefs...? I can't seem to figure out which it is.
(I happened to catch a moment of Pat ROBert$on on teevee yesterday, he looks about as decrepit as that old fraud Billy Graham. May they all meet very very soon, maybe at the side of Anal...er, Oral Roberts.)
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)I wouldn't even be surprised to see Caribou Barbie herself start her own religion after her phony political career dries up. That's really where the $$$$ is.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,572 posts)Can I call you John?
I have only two words for you. Make me.
Wait, I have three more words.
Go fuck yourself.
Sincerely,
Hong Kong Cavalier
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)That just cause me to type in tongues.
JohnyCanuck
(9,922 posts)doing participating in a heathen solstice festival anyway. Is he sure Jesus would approve of grafting a ritual celebration of his birth (which is nowhere commanded or even suggested in the Bible) onto a pagan solstice party?
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Of course his brain dead flock is far from the majority of voters.
And most of them would be hard put to find a walkman anywhere in their home.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)and he can go fuck himself too
AAO
(3,300 posts)Deep13
(39,154 posts)I reject your disingenuous tidings and your Unamerican command.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)I would expect revile him, call him a communist and a taker.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Kiss my ass.
alp227
(32,026 posts)So don't tell his heart, his Hagee Hatey Heart
I don't think he would understand
That some people do not believe in any God
But are still good citizens of the land
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Then again, he might actually enjoy that.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Skittles
(153,164 posts)f*** him
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)$40...? $50...? $60,000..?
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Profiteers like him are the definition of the devil.
ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)1983 called, it wants my Walkman and your Evangelist Coiff back.
Anyway, there is a third option here, so let's just make sure we're all on the same page.
I can...
A) Stuff my Walkman in my ears
B) Leave the country
C) Tell you to "jam it", go "neener neener neener" up in your face, then give you a wet willy.