Evangelical pastor who said Jews going to hell to give prayer at Jerusalem embassy opening

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pastor-jews-hell-jersualem-embassy-article-1.3988437

An evangelical pastor derided for saying Muslims, Mormons, Jews and others are going to hell has been picked to give a prayer at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist preacher based in Texas, traveled to Israel for the official diplomatic change on Monday, as a participant in the ceremony.

Jeffress has supported the right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump's choice to move the embassy. Observers have criticized many conservative Evangelical Christians for backing the change due to its connections to the Book of Revelation and the end of the world, rather than the practical matter of recognizing where most of the Israeli government is based.

The preacher's role in a ceremony — already fraught with tension over the Israeli-Palestnian conflict — was also slammed as a result of his history of incendiary comments, such his declaration that many groups (including Jews) will go to hell.

"Robert Jeffress says 'you can't be saved by being a Jew,' and 'Mormonism is a heresy from the pit of hell.' He's said the same about Islam," Republican Mitt Romney, who is Mormon and currently running for the U.S. Senate in Utah, said Sunday. "Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem."

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[oberliner]

1. Don't they all think that?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. No. Not all Christians hold such an absolutist view of salvation.

[oberliner]

19. There are evangelical pastors who believe you can go to heaven without accepting Jesus Christ?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. There are pastors who believe you can go to heaven without accepting Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham was the most prolific apostle since Paul and he believed salvation was possible outside the church.

And Robert Jeffress doesn't decide where people spend eternity. G-d does.

[oberliner]

21. So why evangelize?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. To spread the word ?

[oberliner]

24. I always thought it was to get people to accept Christ

And thereby save their souls.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. Can one lead someone to their god without consigning those that don't to Hell ?

[Sherman A1]

2. In this

“We have gone through the looking glass world”, this seems perfectly reasonable.

[Va Lefty]

3. I think we are already there

[OnDoutside]

4. It's actually quite funny in a completely warped, dead brain sort of way.

[Cha]

7. Hilarious.. Rod Serling would be

intrigued.

[OnDoutside]

8. I was thinking about Monty Python, but Serling works too !

[HopeAgain]

5. That Embassy might send us all to Hell.

Trump's biggest legacy may be the exacerbation of Middle East tensions to a boiling point.

[NightWatcher]

6. Israel should be freaked out. The Southern Baptists arent there to help. They want Israel destroyed

The SB's think that the destruction of Israel will trigger Jesus to come back.

Are the average Israelis cool with this move?

Religion makes people stupid. It is a primary function and goal of religion.

[LiberalFighter]

11. If Jesus was real... And he came back...

I seriously doubt that he would help those scumbags. Because 1) He is a Jew, 2) His teachings were based on a Jewish god, 3) Therefore anything not Jewish is not part of the "prophecy".

[leftynyc]

16. The average Israeli

considers the evangelicals and their moronic end times fantasies as nothing more than useful idiots.

[Girard442]

9. Evangelicals see everything as a competition between Team Jesus and Team Satan.

Anyone who gets in their way has got to be on Team Satan, right? Since Team Jesus must win, they feel that pulling out the shivs and the lead pipes and going after whoever they think is on Team Satan is a fine and upstanding thing to do.

[LuvNewcastle]

14. Yes, it's a black and white world to them.

You're either with them or against them.

[Bettie]

10. Because of course he is

and the Israeli government will cheer him.

How twisted is this whole mess?

[RandiFan1290]

12. Will Democrats promise to reverse this Embassy move? nt

[zipplewrath]

15. Dubious

I've thought about that. Once done, there's no real value in undoing it. A more likely move will be to open some sort of embassy/consulate in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.

[mountain grammy]

13. Well isn't that special...

Time to bring back the Church Lady..

[Initech]

17. Good to know that the Christian Taliban is taking us straight to hell!

[Gothmog]

23. This pastor is a nutcase and scares me

[Iggo]

26. 18 dead.

Just so the republicans could thumb their noses.

They're smiling right now.

[Crunchy Frog]

27. Political expediency makes strange bedfellows.