Accidental Blogger

What’s with some men of God?  Rather than soothe the nerves of their flocks, they fancy themselves as rabble rousers, political heavy hitters, all knowing prognosticators and revisionist history scholars.   

First Barack Obama gently distanced himself from his long time pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright when video clips of Wright’s fiery sermons surfaced. A few weeks later when the spurned but tenacious pastor decided to twist the knife further into Obama’s public wound by going ballistic at the National Press Club, the erstwhile acolyte and current presidential candidate had to "reject" him.

Now another presidential candidate has been forced to renounce a pastor whose blessings he had sought out in order to endear himself to the conservative evangelicals. Initially John McCain adamantly ignored calls to renounce the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, the apocalyptic preacher from San Antonio, TX who has said some nasty things about the Catholic Church, homosexuals, Islam and Harry Potter. Hagee’s fondest dream is to bring about a bloody war in the middle east to pave the way for the Second Coming of Christ. To that end, he supports Israel with money and political clout and opposes all Islamic countries. Now a video has been located in which Hagee describes the WWII Jewish Holocaust as God’s will – a predestined and necessary measure, which by making possible the establishment the state of Israel, set the stage for the End Times prophecy to be realized. (For the likes of Hagee, every significant world event is a cog in the wheel of the Apocalyptic juggernaut)  The sermon was offensive and nutty enough that McCain has at last "repudiated" the endorsement he had earlier sought from Hagee.

Who is Hillary’s spiritual guru?  What has he said?  Is there a video out there?  What fun lies in wait for us if Mormon Mitt Romney becomes McCain’s running mate?  Whom will Obama pick?  Which church / synagogue / temple / mosque does he / she attend?  When will we know?  I can’t wait to find out!