Pastor Hagee brings in the big bucks with his screwy "theology"

[libnnc]

Check it out

<snip> But Hagee the businessman -- along with friends like Hinn, Meyer, Parsley, and other TBN televangelists, including the network's top executives, Paul and Jan Crouch -- has come under fire for excessive compensation derived from his nonprofit ministries. According to his organization's tax returns, Hagee has earned more than $1 million annually since 1999 in salary and deferred compensation from his nonprofit Global Evangelism Television and Cornerstone Church. In 2004, the San Antonio News Express reported that he was the highest-paid nonprofit executive in that city; his pay was nearly twice that of the next best-paid executive...<snip>

And he has a huge following...

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Indeed, Hagee wields "a very large megaphone" that reaches "a very large group of people," said Rabbi James Rudin of the American Jewish Committee, who has studied the Christian right for 30 years. With CUFI, the Texas pastor has exponentially expanded the reach of his megaphone beyond his television audience. Thanks to the viral marketing made possible by the hundreds of evangelical leaders who have signed on to his new organization, his warmongering has rippled through mega-churches across America for months....<snip>


http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=11541

And here he is in his own words on NPR's Fresh Air
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6097362

So how long are we going to condone our government's alliance with nutters like this?

[libnnc]

1. E&P has an article here too

Hagee, in 'NYT' This Sunday, Says McCain Sought His Endorsement

By Greg Mitchell

Published: March 20, 2008 5:35 PM ET

NEW YORK In an interview that will appear in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, controversial televangelist Rev. John Hagee declares, "It's true that McCain's campaign sought my endorsement."

McCain has attempted to distance himself from some of Hagee's views, much as Barack Obama is doing in relation to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But unlike McCain, Obama has not stood on stage with Wright and accepted his accolades this year.
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003728364

This shit ain't going away. Hagee's so-called "ministry" reaches far more than we'd like to assume.

[Breeze54]

2. The M$M needs to call him out on his nazi comments yesterday!

What a totally batshit crazy RW-tard! :crazy:

[libnnc]

3. I'm way past sick of the double standard

way past.

[Breeze54]

4. But why isn't the Jewish Community raising hell?!?!

I think they need to do that ASAP!!

[libnnc]

5. I've never understood their silence on this

it is no secret that Hagee sincerely believes they will all burn in hell.

[Breeze54]

6. Well...DUH! It was all over the progressive political radio shows this morning but

............ a 60 cycle hum from the Jewish Community. :silly: