Day Of Deception

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That said, the Christian fundamentalism he proposes as the antidote is merely a variant of the same statism he claims to refute. I know this for a fact, because I have lived in San Antonio, Texas -- where his Cornerstone Baptist Church holds sway over the religious and social lives of many of the Alamo City's denizens. Like most televangelists, he uses symbolism such as the cross, the flag to enflame the honest passions of the "silent majority," in order to get them into his tacky, garish chapel, and their dollars into his coffers.

This quasi-Fascism posing as Protestant work-ethic Christianity is the basis for this book's thesis, and it does not require much of a "leap of faith" (no pun intended) to see that deep-down, he is secretly envious of the leftists he castigates; He is merely jealous that they follow secular liberals and not charismatic conservatives.

Like most Republican evangelicals (read: "The Christian Right"), Hagee makes the specious claim that the United States of America is a "Christian Nation," and that America was founded upon "Biblical principles." His more liberal critics are equally wrong when they dismiss this out of hand, because it is indeed true that many of the parables of the Bible did have a profound impact upon the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, believed Jesus Christ to be the perfect moral paragon, a man whose ascetism, open-mindedness and stand on principle to be an ethical model for people to follow.

However, here's the rub: Because the founding fathers -- Jefferson included -- were so deeply commited to religious freedom, they believed that the best way to accomplish this was with a secular state, one that eschewed theocracy and a State-run, established church. Jefferson, after all, coined the term "separation of church and state."

What Hagee wants is quite a different animal: He and his followers believe that for America to be a moral nation that morality needs to be forced upon the citizenry by the government, said government run by uptight right-wing radical theocrats of his ilk. Hagee is one of the intolerant Christian right which promulgates the poisonous view that "We have freedom of religion, not freedom *from* religion." As a Roman Catholic, I am offended that this rich and tacky hick preacher seeks to interpose himself between me and my God, which God has given me the free will to choose my religious beliefs, and has given me the liberty to worship or reject Him.

Thus, we come full-circle to Hagee's original thesis that America's founding principles of liberty and individualism are being eroded from within. If indeed they are, he'll only have himself to blame.

That said, the Christian fundamentalism he proposes as the antidote is merely a variant of the same statism he claims to refute. I know this for a fact, because I have lived in San Antonio, Texas -- where his Cornerstone Baptist Church holds sway over the religious and social lives of many of the Alamo City's denizens. Like most televangelists, he uses symbolism such as the cross, the flag to enflame the honest passions of the "silent majority," in order to get them into his tacky, garish chapel, and their dollars into his coffers.

This quasi-Fascism posing as Protestant work-ethic Christianity is the basis for this book's thesis, and it does not require much of a "leap of faith" (no pun intended) to see that deep-down, he is secretly envious of the leftists he castigates; He is merely jealous that they follow secular liberals and not charismatic conservatives.

Like most Republican evangelicals (read: "The Christian Right"), Hagee makes the specious claim that the United States of America is a "Christian Nation," and that America was founded upon "Biblical principles." His more liberal critics are equally wrong when they dismiss this out of hand, because it is indeed true that many of the parables of the Bible did have a profound impact upon the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, believed Jesus Christ to be the perfect moral paragon, a man whose ascetism, open-mindedness and stand on principle to be an ethical model for people to follow.

However, here's the rub: Because the founding fathers -- Jefferson included -- were so deeply commited to religious freedom, they believed that the best way to accomplish this was with a secular state, one that eschewed theocracy and a State-run, established church. Jefferson, after all, coined the term "separation of church and state."

What Hagee wants is quite a different animal: He and his followers believe that for America to be a moral nation that morality needs to be forced upon the citizenry by the government, said government run by uptight right-wing radical theocrats of his ilk. Hagee is one of the intolerant Christian right which promulgates the poisonous view that "We have freedom of religion, not freedom *from* religion." As a Roman Catholic, I am offended that this rich and tacky hick preacher seeks to interpose himself between me and my God, which God has given me the free will to choose my religious beliefs, and has given me the liberty to worship or reject Him.

Thus, we come full-circle to Hagee's original thesis that America's founding principles of liberty and individualism are being eroded from within. If indeed they are, he'll only have himself to blame.