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March 28th, 2011
02:11 PM ET
Gingrich fears 'atheist country ... dominated by radical Islamists' Newt Gingrich at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor Hours after declaring Sunday that he expects to be running for president within a month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he's worried the United States could be “a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists,” in the foreseeable future, according to Politico. Gingrich was addressing Cornerstone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, led by the Rev. John Hagee, an influential leader among American evangelicals. Hagee's endorsement of then-presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 was plagued by controversy. McCain ultimately rejected the endorsement over remarks Hagee had made about the Holocaust, in which he appeared to say that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God's will by hastening the desire of Jews to return to Israel, in accordance with biblical prophecy. "God says in Jeremiah 16: 'Behold, I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave to their fathers. ... Behold, I will send for many fishers, and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them.' That would be the Jews,” Hagee had said in an earlier sermon. “Then God sent a hunter,” his sermon continued. “A hunter is someone who comes with a gun, and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter." McCain rejected Hagee’s endorsement of his campaign after learning about the comments in May 2008. "Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them,” McCain said at the time. Hagee then withdrew his endorsement of the Arizona senator, which he had offered three months earlier. One irony of McCain rejecting Hagee’s endorsement over his Holocaust remarks is that the Texas evangelist leads the Christian Zionist movement. Hagee is founder and national chairman of Christians United for Israel, which features Elie Wiesel and other Holocaust survivors at its events. Here’s what Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church on Sunday evening, according to Politico:
Gingrich’s church appearance comes amid a broader campaign to court religious conservatives. On Monday, Hagee released a statement praising Gingrich's appearance at Cornerstone. “It was such a great honor to welcome Mr. Gingrich to our church, and hear him describe the centrality of faith in our nation,” he said. The statement also included praise for Hagee and his wife, Diana, from Gingrich. “It was truly an honor to be with John and Diana at Cornerstone," Gingrich said. "Their dedication to serve is inspirational.” soundoff (2,228 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 Next »
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I wonder what crazies would beleive this garbage and apparently, they're a few here. Its absolutly stunning how easily dupped by religion people can be and how easily evill men can manipulate these people.
It really does not matter what this man thinks about the U.S.A. populace in regards to the opposition of his (faith based) belief system. I for one require evidence in order to hold a belief of any kind!!! This man is attempting to force delusion on others. He is also displaying incredible stupidity, as atheism is the complete opposite of Islamic beliefs. Atheism has (1) meaning!!! It means; "(NO BELIEF) in a god". The day a religious individual presents evidence for their sky daddy/mommy, than I will consider the evidence at hand. Until than these people are barking up the wrong tree!
"Gingrich said he's worried the United States could be 'a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists.'"
I think some wires got crossed there.
I wonder how Hagee views Newt's divorces and subsequent remarriages? She Newt be stoned to death?
Hagee is a whack job.
If I were a religious man (I'm one of those wacko atheists) I would be truly offended by the way these stupid politicians use religion. Wait a minute, I am offended by it. I love how he characterized our founding fathers as "religious". I thought he was supposed to know something about history. They were atheists you moron
Apparently Gingrich doesn't realize his comments make no logical sense whatsoever. Atheism and Islamism are mutually exclusive terms.
If you thought what Newt said was stupid then you're not his target audience. Newt doesn't sound stupid because he is stupid, Newt sounds stupid because he thinks his supporters are stupid.
The Bible was written and re-written by man, as passed down from the ancient scrolls of man, unfortunately, man is the one who interprets the bible to read what they want, and not always what the bible is trying to convey. Idiots like Gringich and Hagee need to be put on an island where kool-aid is served regularly.
I wish pols and actually everyone to just chill, live your lives and let other folks live theirs. Quit trying to mold everyone to a "one size fits all".
At least he doesn't fear a two-bit-southern-snake-oil-hypocrite-good-ole'-boy country.
Judgement day: And taking the lords name in vain, 1 million 6 hundred thousand. Oh Jesus!
Funny, I worry a lot more about Newt and his radical Christianist buddies; they're quite a few more of them, and they've already infiltrated our political system and much of the military.
BTW, why exactly are we letting this "church" skip out on paying taxes – it's clearly become a political advocate...
Cuckoo bananas.
I think he needs to fear things like sinking numbers in the polls, his moral hypocricy, and lack of support from the nutcases in his own party.
The U.S. will not be in any danger of becoming an Islamic country anytime soon. Muslims are a very small minority group in the U.S. same as the aetheists..
Muslims make up 0.6% of the population. Athiests make up 17% of the populaton and is the fastest growing "religious" group in the US (per the census). But don't fear atheists, we have no interest in shutting down churches and insisting you learn evolution in church...Christians on the other hand...
religon is humans way of making themselves eternal. you/i will never be eternal, we have a life on earth. now use it for the better, not the worse. stop talking about religion and focus on the issues of life on earth.
discuss.
Personally, I fear space aliens and monsters 😛
What's truly sad is not that Gingrich is saying such things, but that he seems to believe that middle America will gobble up such nonsense (or ignore it) in the general election.
This country would be much better off without religion.
ALL countries would be better off without religion.
Our country can't be secular, atheist, and radical islamist. Those three don't go together. I hope he keeps saying stupid stuff like this.
I was thinking the same thing...Gingritch is a fear monger. I hope he gets nominated as he'll never win the presidency.
Exactly. He's being reactionary to court different voters. Moreover, the First Amendment specifically doesn't endorse any religion so why is he even going there? He'll garner votes but he can't win.
ahaha indeed, they more the talk the greater the likelihood they'll say (another) stupid thing. The only problem is that the majority of people who vote for these bozos are not known for their intellect....
1st off, our founding fathers weren't all that Christian. There is a reason they specifically wanted separation of church and state. 2nd, this great Christian country that Newt thinks we will be fondly remembering is the one that kept slavery until 1863, didn't give blacks basic civil rights until the 1960's and still denies 10% of ouir population (gays and lesbians) many of their basic rights as US citizens.
Meanwhile, 'secular' nations such as just about every one else in the western world, seem to be doing just fine, thank you .
consider the source...then consider the audience
I am waiting on Rudy to announce his run. All we'll hear from him will be blah blah 9/11..blah blah...Muslims...blah blah. 9/11...
Brother Newt served one of his wives with divorce papers while she lay in her hospital bed, dying of cancer. What a fine Christian he is!
it dosen't matter what hillbilly gingrich says, he'll never be president of the usa.