Joseph Farah goes after talk show host Hank Hanegraff for making the following claim in a recent anti-Left Behind novel:
"Much of American Middle East policy is influenced by a huge voting bloc of evangelicals who are taught not to question Israel's divine right to the land," says Hanegraff. "God is not pro-Jew. He is pro-justice. He is not pro-Palestinian. He is pro-peace. Only a gospel of peace and justice is potent enough to break the stranglehold of anti-Semitism and racism fueled in part by bad theology."
Farah reacts:
What Hannegraff and Brouwer are saying and writing is dangerous. It is untrue. It defies history. It defies logic. It defies common sense. And it makes both Americans and all of the people of the Middle East less safe and less free.
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Sure. Why use logic when you can make blanket accusations? Easy to say it defies logic, history, etc. But it would be nice if he'd actually demonstrate how this is so. Hank made a theological statement (who does God favor?), and all he gets in response is the same old rhetoric.
I won't comment on foreign policy so much as to say that Hanegraaff's theology regarding the so-called "End-Times" is spot on. It does not take a work of fiction, as Farah says, to get the idea out. Hanegraaff has already recently published Armageddon Code, which is his non-fiction dealing of the eschatology debate.
Fuse of Armageddon is set to release in August. Jo must have gotten a hold of an advance copy. I know I didn't send him mine. I have serious issues with the book myself, but they are more with Sigmund than with Hank. Fuse is, sadly, good theology in the form of literary drivel. If you can read Left Behind without rolling your eyes at the atrocious style (disregarding theology for a moment) you might like Fuse.
Posted by Christopher Kou | May 24, 2007 9:20 AM
Posted on May 24, 2007 09:20