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John Hagee, an influential Texas televangelist who endorsed John McCain, apologized to Catholics Tuesday for his stinging criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and for having "emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholic and Protestant relations with the Jews."
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You will never see a Landover Pastor apologizing for remarks made about cathylicks!
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Hagee has often made references to "the apostate church" and the "great whore," terms that Catholics say are slurs aimed at the Roman Catholic Church. In his letter, Hagee said he now better understood that the Book of Revelation's reference to the Catholic Church as "the apostate church" and the "great whore" are "a rhetorical device long employed in anti-Catholic literature and commentary."
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Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
What??? WTF? Did Hagee just disavow the credibility of Chick Tracts? Did he turn his back on the common fundamentalist meaning of Revelation? What does he think Revelation 19:2 is talking about?
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He stressed that in his use, "neither of these phrases can be synonymous with the Catholic Church."
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Well, then what is the great whore?
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In a statement posted in the Catholic League's Web site, Donohue added: "What Hagee has done takes courage and quite frankly I never expected him to demonstrate such sensitivity to our concerns."
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Well, that's one less pastor that I'll watch on TBN. Now he's just another fat man peddling a watered down religion.
Next thing you know he'll be driving his fat ass around in the Hageemobile with a coexist bumper sticker on it.
Some things just aren't meant to be.
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