LA Evangelical Leader: Iran Confrontation 'Inevitable'

[Purveyor]

A military confrontation with Iran over its nuclear weapons program appears increasingly inevitable, a senior American evangelical leader said on Tuesday.

"The horrible terror of the almost wild-eyed behavior of Ahmadinejad is enough to cause any thinking person to ask: Is there another way than some military intervention?" Pastor Jack W. Hayford, president of the International Church of Foursquare Gospel, told The Jerusalem Post in an interview.

"Confrontation seems inevitable," he said.
The 73-year-old Los Angeles-based Hayford is heading a four-day conference of more than 3,000 church leaders and laymen from around the world in Jerusalem, in what is his 34th trip to Israel.

Islamic extremism was "the greatest force of evil" that exists in the world today, Hayford said, adding that it has been tolerated to a surprising degree by the mainstream media.

Hayford also said that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had been exploited by Arab and Islamic regimes in the Middle East as an excuse for their extremist ideology.

"The Palestinians are often used as an excuse, especially in this part of the world, for extremist ideology that is a ruse," Hayford said. "They would oppose Israel in any way on any terms."

Christians and Jews also shared a common struggle against another threat, he said, "a spiritual or moral war" against a liberal culture that undercut basic moral values.

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http://www.jpost.com:80/servlet/Satellite?cid=1185379004789&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[Tom Joad]

1. this is the hagee/aipac line also.

see
http://www.stopaipac.org/christianright.htm

[sharp_stick]

2. Yet another "man of god"

deciding that the only way to true happiness is to kill a shitload of people in his name. Fucking prick, these assholes almost make me wish I believed in hell.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

6. Hell's too good . . .

this is just another repressed homosexual self-hater who has lived a life of misery and depression, and in his twilight years seeks to lash out at a most convenient target.

[zonmoy]

13. another asshole proving the malevolence of god.

[BlooInBloo]

3. I love the smell of religious warmongers in the morning.

[Skip Intro]

4. Yeah, war is so Christ-like.

I hate hypcrites.

[More Than A Feeling]

5. More warmongering from a theocrat.

Nothing new here.

[marmar]

7. Can't we just take the Christian extremists, and the extremists of every other faith.....

.... put them on an island together, and let them shoot, bomb, slash and condemn each other until their hearts are content? The rest of us are sick and tired of them.

[liberal N proud]

8. Onward Christian soldiers...

marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before

A phrase that makes no sense whatsoever but the Christian fundamentalist subscribe to the wars of the government like it bestowed upon them with divine power.

[partylessinOhio]

9. What a POS! Rot in HELL! No more religious than a rock.

About as smart too.

:thumbsdown:

[BlooInBloo]

10. Proof #233564453: No difference between the religions.

[dweller]

11. dear lord...

please put this nutjob, Jack W. Hayford, near the top of Larry Flynt's list.

check ya later,
dp

[madfloridian]

12. Bush is using religious right leaders to push the danger of Islam, Iran.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1329

This was on State of Belief on AAR with Welton Gaddy.

Bush is using them to pump for war with Iran.