You're Not Going to Heaven Unless You Are a Pretribulationalist

Some more fun John Hagee stuff...

Here's Hagee on the importance of the Rapture, saying explicitly that unless you believe in his version of events of pretribulationalism, that you will be "left behind." Forget "Faith in Christ = salvation." It's now "Faith in Christ + pretribulational eschatology = salvation"! See his remarks on this starting at :52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNyEJDUU6U&mode=related&search=

And here's Hagee's in the same sermon talking about the 10 Signs that we must be the "terminal generation." Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUMWZuvocbA&mode=related&search=

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeL1_p_esg0&mode=related&search=

I'm guessing this sermon is a few years old given the catastrophic reference to SARS, which hasn't yet eliminated the human race interestingly enough and has mostly dropped off the radar screen in the media. I especially love his description of people's future confusion after the rapture as if they are all morons. I'm sure that after all the Christians disappear--and cars start colliding into each other, planes crash, and fundamentalist churches everywhere are empty--that everyone is going to blame it on space aliens or explain it away with psychology (or understand what really happened and yet choose to follow the "antichrist" anyway). When you really sit and think through this on both a Scriptural and logical level, you really have to wonder how so many people could believe this ridiculous nonsense. As the false predictions continue to pile up from several generations of "prophecy experts," it's only a matter of time before this doctrine is completely discredited and ceases misleading people.

Ron Paul and "Isolationism"

The term "isolationism" is ridiculously thrown around and misapplied to anybody who does not favor perpetual warfare. Here's a post I left on the LRC blog on the issue as it pertains to Ron Paul's campaign with a link to a piece from a year ago on the wider issue:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/015169.html