2. Condemning the Vietnam war, our second mystery guest said: “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.”

and also, about Vietnam: “God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war…And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any other nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place. …And if you don’t stop your reckless course, I’ll rise up and break the backbone of your power.”

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3. “I cannot tell you how important it is that we understand the true nature of Islam, that we see it for what it really is. In fact, I will tell you this: I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe that Sept. 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.”

And again on Islam: Islam is “an anti-Christ religion” predicated on “deception”. Mohammad, he believes, “received revelations from demons and not from the true God.”…”Allah was a demon spirit.”

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4. The Catholic church is “the great whore”, the “anti Christ” and a “false cult system”.

And: “Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolph Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews.”

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5. Responding to Richard Nixon (on tape) that the Jews had “a stranglehold on the country” mystery guest 6 responded “if you get elected a second time then we might be able to do something.” He also engaged in anti-semitic jokes, discussed which reporters were Jewish and how reporting had deteriorated since more Jews had become journalists.

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6. Mystery guest 7 referred to Jews as “Hymie’s and New York as “Hymietown.”

And while he was married, he gave spiritual counseling to a president and his family on marriage and family values when his own mistress was pregnant with his child.

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7. After 9/11, he said, “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For The American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say” you help this happen.”

He also said: “I do believe, as a theologian, based upon many scriptures and particularly Proverbs 14:23, which says ‘living by God’s principles promotes a nation to greatness, violating those principles brings a nation to shame.” This person talks about how the ACLU and other organizations “which have attempted to secularize America, have removed our nation from its relationship with Christ on which it was founded…I therefore believe that that created an environment which possibly has caused God to lift the veil of protection which has allowed no one to attack America on our soil since 1812,”.

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8. “The feminists agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”

He also said: “When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. ‘What do you mean?’ the media challenged me. ‘You’re not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?” My simple answer is, ‘Yes they are.”

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9. “The government gives them drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no no. God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

After Sept 11, mystery guest 10 also said, “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens have come home to roost.”

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10. ”The Lord of Host, The God of Israel says: Even yet, if you quit your evil ways I will let you stay in your own land. But don’t be fooled by those who lie to you and say to you that since the temple of the Lord is here, God will never let Jerusalem be destroyed. You may remain under these conditions only: If you stop your wicked thoughts and deeds, and are fair to others, and stop exploiting orphans and widows and foreigners. And stop your murdering. And stop worshiping idols as you do now to your hurt. Then, and only then, will I let you stay in this land that I gave to your fathers to keep forever.”

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Should these remarks be repudiated by those who are counseled and spiritually advised by the people who made them? Should the people who made these remarks be repudiated as well?

Let us know what you think.

Answers:

1. Rev. Tony Campolo, Bill Clinton’s long time spiritual adviser.
2. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Televangelist Rod Parsley, a man John McCain described as a “spiritual guide."
4. Rev. John Hagee, of whom John McCain said he was “Proud and honored to have his support.”
5. Rev. Billy Graham, spiritual advisers to many presidents including Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (Graham apologized when the story broke).
6. Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s spiritual adviser during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
7. Rev. Jerry Falwell, who supported John McCain until his death and who McCain , when asked, refused to repudiate.
8. Pat Robertson, former presidential candidate whose support was sought by Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney and received by Giuliani.
9. Rev.Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s pastor
10. Jeremiah, the biblical Hebrew prophet of the 6th Century BCE who predicted Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians. His lamentations were unpopular, hence the word “jeremiad”, meaning tale of woe.