Talk:Chuck Smith (pastor)

Smith Goldfoot

Several authors who criticized involvement of the Christian right in the Arab-Israeli conflict refer to Chuck Smith’s association with a movement to rebuild Solomon's Temple on or near the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. They argue that by the mid-eighties some pre-millennial church leaders, such as Smith, went beyond simply hoping for the rapture. [3] [4] [5][6] In September 1984, writer Grace Halsell reported that Calvary Chapel gave $25,000 to Terry J. Reisenhoover’s Jerusalem Temple Mount Foundation. The foundation, she wrote,“raises money for Jewish West Bank militants” and helped provide funds to Stanley Goldfoot. According to her interview with foundation chariman Reisenhoover, Goldfoot was said by him to be “a very solid, legitimate terrorist…He has the qualifications for clearing a site for the temple.” Chuck Smith, according to Halsell, said he had “a common interest” with Goldfoot “in seeing the temple rebuilt.”[7] David S. New quotes an interview in which Smith said “Do you want a real radical? Try Stanley Goldfoot. He’s a wonder. His plan for the Temple Mount is to take some sticks of dynamite and some M16s, and blow up the Dome of the Rock and al Aqsa Mosque, and just lay claim to the site.”(p. 130) While soliciting donations to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple, Goldfoot is reported by these sources have given a talk at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa(though Halsell notes, in this instance, Goldfoot never mentioned using violence).

^ New, David S. HOLY WAR: The Rise of Militant Christian, Jewish and Islamic Fundamentalism--2002 ^ Gorenberg, Gershom. The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount– 2000 ^ Kaplan, Jeffrey. Millennial violence: past, present and future ^ Halsell, Grace. Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture--And Destruction of Planet. ^ Halsell, Grace. Shrine Under Siege. August - September 1984 The Link - Volume 17, Issue 3 Published by Americans for Middle East Understanding. https://www.ameu.org/The-Link/Archives/Shrine-Under-Siege.aspx — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrainUnboxed2020 (talk • contribs) 12:43, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Controversy

Several of the cited sources in the Controversy section are behind paywalls, making it difficult to follow the assertions. Specifically 20 & 21:

(20) Moll, Rob (May 8, 2006). "Unaccountable at Calvary Chapel". christianitytoday.com. Retrieved August 29, 2011.

(21) Moll, Rob (February 16, 2007). "Day of Reckoning". christianitytoday.com. Retrieved August 29, 2011.

Are there other sources available? LynnMaudlin (talk) 03:24, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

The Guest / Limited Access portions should help you determine if those were published elsewhere. Walter Görlitz (talk) 07:43, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read, Editor Tim C. Leedom, 1993

"One of the centers of this movement was Calvary Chapel, in Santa Ana, California. Its leader, the Reverend Chuck Smith, is a staunch, conservative minister from the pentecostal Foursquare denomination who once showed John Birch Society films to his growing youth group. As a younger man. Rev. Smith sang solo in the worship services of the Rev. Virginia Brandt Berg, the mother of the infamous David Berg, founder of the Children of God cult

Smith has been known to publicly denounce homosexualist liberal theologians. I have seen him in the pulpit, while talking of the gay church, violently slamming his fist down on the pulpit, and with acrid countenance, tell his sheepish flock that if he flew a jet bomber, those churches would be the first targets of his deserved wrath" p. 395 — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrainUnboxed2020 (talk • contribs) 12:53, 6 April 2022 (UTC)