I know I shouldn't laugh...

... but this is hysterical!

From Think Progress:

McCain ‘Very Honored’ By Support Of Pastor Preaching ‘End-Time Confrontation With Iran’

No, that's not the Laugh Out Loud part...

This is the Laugh Out Loud part:

McCain’s acceptance of Hagee’s endorsement was condemned today by conservative William Donohue, president of the Catholic League. Calling Hagee a “bigot,” Donahue said the right-wing pastor has waged “an unrelenting war against the Catholic Church” by “calling it ‘The Great Whore,’ an ‘apostate church,’ the ‘anti-Christ,’ and a ‘false cult system.’”

Ah, yes - different sides of the Religious Conservative movement - Catholic vs Protestant - call each other "bigots".

I think we started this particular Christian-on-Christian religious war in 1517, and lots & lots of people were burned for having not-quite-right beliefs for a century or two thereafter!

Recall, McCain also made a point of cozying up to Jerry Falwell a couple of years ago:

McCain Reconnects With Liberty University
Senator May Have an Eye Toward 2008 as He Reaches Out to Religious Conservatives
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 14, 2006
LYNCHBURG, Va., May 13 -- Six years after labeling the Rev. Jerry Falwell one of the political "agents of intolerance," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered the commencement address Saturday at Falwell's Liberty University, and vigorously defended his support for the war in Iraq while saying that opponents have a moral duty to challenge the wisdom of a conflict that has exacted a huge toll on the nation.

Mr. "Straight-Talk Express" at work!

Just for fun: read Luther! His invective against the Roman Church makes much of today's political vituperation look anemic! Here's a sample - and a not particularly biting one at that - addressed to Pope Leo X:

Your see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom, and quite, as I believe, of a lost, desperate, and hopeless impiety, this I have verily abominated, and have felt indignant that the people of Christ should be cheated under your name and the pretext of the Church of Rome; and so I have resisted, and will resist, as long as the spirit of faith shall live in me.
[from The Project Gutenberg EBook of Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther]

(Aside: Project Gutenberg is a wonderful source for original texts... for free!)