In my view the reason for the uproar is that John Hagee isn't politically correct, and him endorsing any political figure would be a negative to that politician.
If it was someone like Rick Warren or Joel Osteen or any other religious speaker who was more PC, that wouldn't be a problem or as much of a problem.
Hagee has made some serious attacks on some religions & groups and to a politician, that would be a vote loser!
So if Osteen endorsed him, things would probly be just peachy with it.
Correct.
Politicians are not interested in The Truth.
They are only interested in having the appearance of being interested in The "Good" of the people; that is, the people they are talking to today.
John Hagee had given a sermon several years ago, which was Biblical, in which he was explaining something about Israel. In Ezekiel 5, God describes judgements that will come against Israel because of their sin, and that only a remnant would be spared.
The Holocaust was caused by the Devil.
However, it was ALLOWED By God because of Israel's sin.
If you notice in the parable in Ezekiel 5, (verse 1-4 is the first telling of the judgement, and then verse 5-17 retells the same judgement.) After the first judgement that destroys all but a remnant represented by the hairs placed in the prophet's belt. God then tells him to take the hairs out of his belt and pass them through the judgements again(v.4). Verse 1-3 and also 14-17 would then represent the destruction of Israel as a nation in 70A.D. Verse 4 then represents the REMNANT that survived that destruction then being persecuted again while they are in exile "scattered among the nations." This is the Holocaust.
This is what John Hagee was talking about when he said, "Hitler was a fisher."
Somebody in the media who hates Christians found a copy of that sermon and used "sound bytes" to try to make John Hagee look like a lunatic.
And then John McCain said, "That's insane." and rejected his endorsement.
Well, The Bible doesn't lie. Israel sinned and God judged them by allowing the Devil to have full reign over them for many centuries. They rejected God and chose to worship the devil through idols and false religion and moreover killed Jesus. Therefore the Lord rejected them and gave them over to the devil they worshipped.
You will say, "Surely not every person killed in the Holocaust 'deserved' to die."
But Biblically, yes, they did, and so do you and I.
"For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God" and "The wages of sin is death."
It is only by the Grace of God that anyone is alive at all. Even the unbelieving sinner lives only by Grace, though he does not believe that. But "To whom much has been given much is required." Israel was given both the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, and ultimately rejected both. Therefore their judgement was more harsh than that of the heathen.
There have been many "Holocausts" against Israel throughout Biblical history right up to today. Hitler just "seems" like the worst because it is one of the most recent and because a lot of it was caught on film.
But if you study the Bible you see that the Syrians and the Babylonians and the Egyptians going back to the time of Moses committed such atrocities as bad or worse against Israel, and God allowed it because of their sin.
This is not "Politically correct," but it is Biblically correct.
The Lord rebuke politicians and the media, who call good 'evil' and evil 'good'.