Watch this clip from Keith Olbermann. It's about how Rev. Hagee thinks that Hitler was sent by God to kill the Jews so that the Jews could then create the state of Israel so that the prophecies in the Book of Revelations can happen and all the born again Christians can get raptured to the pearly gates. Don't laugh. The Rapture was George W. Bush's Iraq exit strategy, although they've been a bit stumped when it just plain refused to happen. Seems like a perfect endorsement for McCain.
Hitler - under this crazy theory - is a messanger sent by God, equivalent to Judas. He is a force for good, according to Hagee. He may deny it, but that is the only way one can really read this idea - that the Holocaust was just an inevitable part of God's salvific plan.
For readers this side of either the Atlantic or in some godless European outpost like New Haven or Harvard Square, may I remind you that 59% of the American public believe that the events predicted in the Book of Revelations will happen (source).
But, of course, in writing this, no doubt I'm just exposing my - oh, what's it called? - atheistismistic fundamentalism! We should be focusing on happy, friendly religious people like the Archbishop of Canterbury, and not crazy, off-the-wall people like Hagee. Rowan Williams is the true and honest face of Christianity, while Hagee is a fringe element who has managed to sneak in and become the preferred voice of God for John McCain, a man who could possibly be President of the most powerful nation in the world in less than a year. Any discussion of this is just a sign of being a nutty, illiberal atheist who eats babies in his spare time.
