Is it useful for America for a prominent pastor call for poor people to starve?

Question

Reverend Hagee is shouting maniacally at poor people to "Starve!" and encouraging others to die before they compromise on (Hagee's view of) Christianity.

Should McCain give a similar 45 minute speech explaining his relationship to hateful evangelical preachers like Rev. Hagee?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/an-overlooked-hate-sermon_b_99840.html

Answer 1

Doesn't sound very Christian to me.

Answer 2

Once again, and reaaal slowly for you Obama supporters with your childlike minds.  Hagee is not McCains pastor, not his mentor, not the guy he credits with being his 'sounding board' and his 'uncle'.  Hagee is just a pastor with a huge congregation that is going to vote for McCain.  I doubt any of the candidates would refuse a vote.

Answer 3

As long as we are not listening to Wright!

Answer 4

There is no relationship, so there is nothing for McCain to explain.

Answer 5

No, but there are enough ignorant people to believe him, with JohnMcCain, leading the parade

Answer 6

He's sounds like a disgusting mouthpiece of the neocon agenda!  Very anti-Christ's teachings and anti-Christian in general.  And the media rather focus in Wright for rightly criticizing government while Hagee and McCain get a free pass--amazing!

Answer 7

We can't judge McCain on what Hagee says, and we can't judge Obama for what Wright says. They are both obviously camera-happy weirdos who are using this opportunity to get famous. They maybe used to be Christian, but their words and actions prove otherwise.

Answer 8

This is not a speech calling for poor people to starve.

Its a speech calling for lazy people to work.

Now I know that many on welfare, in fact most on welfare, actually need it.  They cannot work for whatever reason.

But that is not the image that is presented to most people.  The image that is presented to us is one of fully functional people with nice cars who cheated the system.  Now when you hear that is going on, of course you are going to be ticked off that tax money is going to pay for those kinds of people.

That isn't what is happening overall (though it happens some), but that is the image that is presented to us; and to Reverend Hagee.

Reverend Hagee is telling those people who take advantage of the system to get up and do some work; they don't deserve to be fed if they do nothing when they are fully capable of doing work.  Hagee believes that is practially everyone on welfare; it isn't, but its easy to see how he would pick up that idea.

And Hagee is right on with the people he was aiming for; no one who can work and avoids it should be fed.  Society only works if we contribute as well as take.  It will be the downfall of order if too many take and never give back.  Hagee is only saying this; something we all agree on.

Hagee does not have anything to apologize for; and Mccain has nothing to repudiate.

By the same token, I say Obama handled the Reverend Wright situation quite correctly.  What Reverend Wright said the first time (except for the AIDS situation) is fully correct.

He was not attacking America the people; he was attacking America the government.  And everything he said was true.  Again, except for the AIDS part.  But it is understandable that he would believe even the AIDS part; once you see what the government has done to its people in the past its easy to see they could easily do it again in the future.  Reverend Wright said nothing wrong, and Obama was fully justified in staying with him.

Because Obama could see what the Reverend said was correct.  He may have been wrong on the cause; it was rich people, not white people per se.  In Wright's time, that meant white people.  But it continues today with rich black people as well as rich white people; and it screws poor white people just as much as poor black people.  That is the nature of power; you s***w people to get more whenever possible.

Obama could stay and with justification because he saw the Wright was correct.  It was just a matter of finding out the real cause of the situation; and not the percieved cause.

But when Wright spoke again and left sanity altogether, and questioned Obama's motives; Obama had reason to leave.  It does not mean he threw Wright under the bus; and not leaving sooner did not mean he hates America.  Wright threw himself under the bus.  And Obama cannot help America if he does not know what the problems are.  But once he finds the problems, and realizes the cause; he, along with both of the other candidates, must find ways to fix the causes for the betterment of all of America.

Obama will do that.  McCain will do that.  Clinton will do that.  They will all fight their hardest to fix the underlying causes.  For the first time in a long time, I feel we have three fine candidates.  This should not be the fight it has become.  It should be a celebration of what we have become.

And I only hope that any and all three can change the system; rather than the system change any and all of the three.