{"id":581,"date":"2008-05-02T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/is-hagee-mainstream.html"},"modified":"2008-05-02T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T15:58:04","slug":"is-hagee-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/is-hagee-mainstream.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Hagee Mainstream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hagee.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/hagee.jpg\" width=\"94\" \/>American Prospect Religious Right expert Sarah Posner (who writes the weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=the_fundamentalist_043008\">FundamentaList column<\/a>) contacted God-o-Meter to say that the supposedly controversial video of John Hagee that GOM linked to this morning won&#8217;t be much of a liability for Hagee endorsee John McCain. Why? Because a huge number of Americans agree with Hagee&#8217;s theological views. Posner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=02&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=is_the_end_near_for_mccain#104755\">wrote about this<\/a> in February:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 2002 Time magazine poll found that fully 59% [of Americans] say they believe the events in Revelation are going to come true, and nearly one-quarter think the Bible predicted the Sept. 11 attack. A 2007 AP\/Ipsos poll found that one quarter of Americans believed that Jesus Christ would return in 2007 and 46% of evangelicals believed that it was somewhat likely. A comprehensive study of Pentecostals and charismatic evangelical Christians conducted by the Pew Center on Religion and Public Life in 2006 found that Pentecostals have particularly strong views on &#8216;the rapture of the church,&#8217; the teaching that before the world comes to an end the faithful will be saved and taken up to heaven. According to the survey, 90% of American Pentecostals held that belief, while 69% of charismatics and 59% of other Christians did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But does that mean that most Americans believe Harry Potter (which did manage to sell a few copies here) is nothing but a precursor of witchcraft, as Hagee says? Or that we&#8217;re a pagan nation where we&#8217;re rebirthing Sodom and Gomorrah? Would be interesting to see the polling on that. Maybe they&#8217;re more mainstream views that God-o-Meter supposed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Prospect Religious Right expert Sarah Posner (who writes the weekly FundamentaList column) contacted God-o-Meter to say that the supposedly controversial video of John Hagee that GOM linked to this morning won&#8217;t be much of a liability for Hagee endorsee John McCain. Why? Because a huge number of Americans agree with Hagee&#8217;s theological views. 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