Who Said That?

"Adolf Hitler was a distant descendant of Esau."

Please leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no cheating or google searches.  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Friday, October 22, 2010 at 11:11AM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is from page 185 of John Hagee's 2007 book Jerusalem Countdown.

Comments

[DSY]

The "Theologian Of The Millennium" John Hagee

DSY

[Si]

I don't know, but when we had an (off-curricla) lecture about Judaism at high school, the Jew told us, when explaining that there are 3 Abrahamic religions, that Christians are descended from Esau, which is
1) patently false in the majority of cases
2) a very subtle insult that went woosh over people's heads - I could tell that he meant it as a dig, but I didn't see why until a year or two later.

Given there's a Hitler reference as well, I'm fairly sure it is someone who is going to be some aggressively pro-Jew, who's whole theology seems to be related to what Israel is doing now and who'd probably call even the Apostle Paul anti-Semitic or holding replacement Theology or something.

[Paul L.]

Jack Van Impe

[David Kjos]

Nice that he added that "distant" modifier. Otherwise, we might have thought ... what?

[Joe Anstett]

Hitler is a distant of Adam. So are blacks, whites, and me to. According the the book "Hitler's Cross" , Hitler tried to take over the church. The "Confessing Church" rejected Hitler as their leader, mainly on theological ground, not moral grounds. But those Christians that thought that the world needed German Christianity (or German culture, German morality or Chistian morality) embraced Hitler, and the early suport he gave to the church.
Been a long time since I read the book, correct me if i'm wrong.
Suspect this person is a close theological relative of German's Hitler embracing Church.

[Michael Seal]

My guess is Hagee. But I've heard some equally crazy things from Jimmy DeYoung over the years.

["lee n. field"]

Pure nutterie, on a par with British Israelism.

I'm going to guess my favorite crank, Chuck Missler.

[Kurt]

Got to be Hagee

[Craig Boyd]

Pat Robertson?

[Joshua]

I wasn't going to respond, but how dare he? And these are the Christian Zionists? Dispensationalism 101

[Chris Sherman]

Benny the Hinn?

[Charles S]

Everone's favorite TV pastor John Hagee

[Ryan Thompson]

I'll go with the majorty...John Hagee?

[Will]

Interesting geneology. I wonder if the person who said this was able to make use of the geneology libraries maintained at the Mormon Church HQ in Salt Lake City? I wouldn't think their records would go back that far...but you never know!

[Patrick Yamada]

I don't know if it's a blessing or not, but I don't know any of these current wacky Christian leaders. Dennis Prager interviewed John Hagee on his radio show as a "Christian leader," and I had no clue who Hagee was. In the grand scheme of things, I guess it's better to know how to identify the guys with the Latin names (e.g. Pelagius, Arminius, or Socinius).