Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz isnt backing away from the endorsement of Mike Bickle, a controversial evangelical pastor who once characterized Hitler as a hunter sent by God to go after Jews who dont to convert to Christianity.
Despite calls from Jewish groups to denounce Bickles interpretation of scripture, a senior advisor to Cruz instead welcomed the pastors support in a statement published today in the Jewish Journal.
Bickle, who runs the Kansas City-based International House of Prayer, made the Hitler comment during a 2011 sermon where he discussed two methods he believes God will use to convert the worlds Jewish population to Christianity grace and violence.
After discussing the fishermen that will use grace to persuade Jews to convert, Bickle turned his attention to the hunters he believes will use violence toward the same end.
And [the Lord] says, And if they dont respond to grace, Im going to raise up the hunters,' Bickle said. And the most famous hunter in recent history is a man named Adolf Hitler.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2...r-who-believes-hitler-was-hunter-sent-by-god/
Despite calls from Jewish groups to denounce Bickles interpretation of scripture, a senior advisor to Cruz instead welcomed the pastors support in a statement published today in the Jewish Journal.
Bickle, who runs the Kansas City-based International House of Prayer, made the Hitler comment during a 2011 sermon where he discussed two methods he believes God will use to convert the worlds Jewish population to Christianity grace and violence.
After discussing the fishermen that will use grace to persuade Jews to convert, Bickle turned his attention to the hunters he believes will use violence toward the same end.
And [the Lord] says, And if they dont respond to grace, Im going to raise up the hunters,' Bickle said. And the most famous hunter in recent history is a man named Adolf Hitler.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2...r-who-believes-hitler-was-hunter-sent-by-god/
