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John Hagee is a televangelist and pastor. He founded the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. His religious organization claims to be a non-denominational evangelical church with 17,000 members.
John Hagee graduated from Trinity University with B.S. in 1964. He was on a football scholarship and was on the Academic Dean's List. He also attended North Texas State University in 1966 where he received his Masters Degree. In 1989 he received his Honorary Doctorate from Oral Roberts University. His theological training came at Southwestern Assemblies of God University near Dallas.
Hagee is married to Diana Castro Hagee and has five children. Personal Freedom Outreach reported in its Quarterly Journal that Hagee was married and divorced previously.
Hagee is the CEO of Global Evangelism Television which telecasts his national radio and television ministry. The John Hagee Ministries is broadcast in the USA, Canada and allegedly in Europe, Africa, and many Third World nations.
He is the author of many books, several of which made the New York Times Best Seller List and had great success in bookstores.
The John Hagee Ministries has given more than $3.7 million to bring Soviet Jews from the former Soviet Union to Israel. According to his organizations website, John Hagee received many awards and recommendations in relations to those humanitarian contributions in regards to Israel.
While some, if not many, televangelists have been at the center of considerable controversies in the 1980s through various scandals, Hagee has been, for a large part, free of such allegations. Moreover, Hagee could be considered relatively conservative compared to some other televangelists. (For example, he asks his congregation to stand during the reading of the Biblical text prior to his sermon, and his style can be classified as "hellfire and brimstone".) Nonetheless, Hagee, following the dogmas and general accepted ideologies of evangelical ministers, condemns literature such as J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter, calling it contemporary witchcraft. In addition, Personal Freedom Outreach claims that Hagee believes that Jews will go to Heaven automatically, whereas Gentiles of all ethnicities must convert to Christianity.
Video clips of Hagee have been shown as part of the "Godstuff" segment on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Quotes
- "You will either offend God and please the world, or please the world and offend God." -Faith under Fire broadcast, (September 12, 2005)
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