The Nappy Cat Chronicles

(On the left: Bill Donohue. On the right: John Hagee.)

The vile President of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, took on the equally vile evangelical pastor John Hagee after Hagee endorsed the 2008 Republican nominee John McCain. From Greenwald’s interview with Donohue:

If someone said to me: who is the biggest anti-Catholic bigot in the evangelical community, I would say: hands down, John Hagee.

This is Hagee’s take on the Catholic Church:

Adolf Hitler attended a Catholic school as a child and heard all the fiery anti-Semitic rantings from Chrysostom to Martin Luther. When Hitler became a global demonic monster, the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII never, ever slightly criticized him. Pope Pius XII, called by historians ‘Hitler’s Pope,’ joined Hitler in the infamous Concordat of Collaboration, which turned the youth of the [sic] Germany over to Nazism, and the churches became the stage background for the bloodthirsty cry, ‘Pereat Judea’…. In all of his [Hitler's] years of absolute brutality, he was never denounced or even scolded by Pope Pius XII or any Catholic leader in the world. To those Christians who believe that Jewish hearts will be warmed by the sight of the cross, please be informed-to them it’s an electric chair. (pp. 79-81)

The Roman Catholic Church, which was supposed to carry the light of the gospel, plunged the world into the Dark Ages…. The Crusaders were a motley mob of thieves, rapists, robbers, and murderers whose sins had been forgiven by the pope in advance of the Crusade…. The brutal truth is that the Crusades were military campaigns of the Roman Catholic Church to gain control of Jerusalem from the Muslims and to punish the Jews as the alleged Christ killers on the road to and from Jerusalem. (p. 73)

Unfortunately for Hagee, although he’s correct about the Catholic Church’s desire to destroy that which was a danger to its existence, at the end of the day Hagee is a dogmatic wackjob. His take on the Harry Potter series:

“As millions of people anticipate the release of the latest Harry Potter book and film, we’re reminded once again of Satan’s ongoing attempt to deceive and destroy. The whole purpose of the Potter books is to desensitize readers and introduce them to the occult [emphasis mine].”

Donohue is absolutely no exception:

On October 13, 2005, he appeared on NBC’s Today Show. While on the show he asserted that the crisis was “a homosexual scandal, not a pedophilia scandal”.

It’s my hope that these two strikingly similar looking obese white men (see above) eat each other or something.