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Hagee & the Jews
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swaldman
By the way, John Hagee has been controversial in the Jewish community, for reasons you might not expect. Though he’s been anti-Catholic and anti-Muslim, Hagee has been a defender of Jews and foe of anti-Semiticism. His group Christians United For Israel has raised money and lobbied for Israel, to the point that Hagee is now…
McCain’s Inept Pandering to Religious Conservatives
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swaldman
It’s sort of fun watching John McCain try to suck up to the religious right – because he’s just so bad at it. Take John Hagee. McCain was no doubt told that Hagee is a popular and influential Christian leader. He figured this is exactly the kind of person he needs to appeal to “evangelical…
Agents of Intolerance Revisited
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swaldman
You know how John McCain has been struggling all year to live down his comment from 2000 that leaders of the “religious right” were “agents of intolerance”? In my mind, I sort of imagined that as a “gaffe,” a quick accidential one liner that slipped out in the heat of battle. But I recently came…
Founding Faith Launches This Week!
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swaldman
My book goes on sale Tuesday! Here’s what’s going on to celebrate and self-promote: On this blog, I’m going to lay out some of the most controversial of the ideas and also the Top Ten Founding Fathers Quotes on Religion. Monday night we launch the Founding Faith Archive, an interactive collection of the most riveting…
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