A leading evangelical voice for nuclear disarmament criticized politicians for comparing a widely debated nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran to the Holocaust and saying it fulfills End Times prophecy in the Bible.
In an interview with the Christian Post, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, chair of the Global Task Force on Nuclear Weapons for the World Evangelical Alliance, chastised GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee for depicting President Obama as “marching Israelis to the door of the oven.”
“I think that kind of rhetoric is pretty outrageous,” said Wigg-Stevenson, founder of the Two Futures Project and author of books including The World Is Not Ours to Save. “The Holocaust is a living memory, and I think that because it was Christian Europe that perpetrated the Holocaust on Jews, Christians have an ethical responsibility forever to take seriously future existential threats to the Jewish people.”
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A graduate of Yale Divinity School and former member of First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn., Wigg-Stevenson is now a doctoral student at the University of Toronto and a postulant for Anglican orders in the Diocese of Toronto, serving as an associate pastor at a downtown parish.
In April he joined Baptist leaders including Roy Medley of American Baptist Churches USA, Suzii Paynter of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and LeDayne McLeese Polaski of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America in endorsing a full-page newspaper ad placed by Sojourners supporting the framework agreement of the Iran nuclear plan.