Thursday, November 16, 2006
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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6:20 PM
Earlier today I exposed how Rick Warren has decided to play footsy with Barack Obama, the only sitting Senator in the U.S. Senate who has voted both in favor of Partial Birth Abortions AND Born Alive Abortions.
Little did I know that at the same time Rick was being quoted by Syrian news agencies as making comments sympathetic to enemies of the United States.
Now he's scheduled to go speak in North Korea...
I just took these quotes from the WorldNet article. I'm not saying that Rick Warren is a great guy and that I fully support him (I'm an opponent of mega-churches and I'm stil processing his connection to Obama Barrick), but I think you've headlined with something out of context. Mom taught me that when you go to someone's home, you compliment the cookies even if the wallpaper is peeling. Pastor Warren was acting on the advice of Franklin Graham. He'd seen some good things happening in Syria. He states he doesn't agree with all that Syria is doing, but he was impressed that the state is supportive of Christian pastors and that Christianity is openly practiced in this Muslim country. He simply complimented that.
"Then my neighbor invited me to meet the president since I often meet presidents of countries we visit," he explained. "I had talked to Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse who has had years of experience with Lebanon and Syria and asked him what to say. Franklin told me, 'Thank the Syrian president for protecting the freedom of Christians and Jews to worship there.' After what I had seen in the churches I’d visited, I did just that."
Warren concluded: "Regrettably, because I praised Syria's welcoming of Christian refugees from Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon into their country, some bloggers concluded that I approved of everything Syria does. That's nonsense! Syria needs many reforms, but in terms of religious freedom, they are ahead of places like Burma, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, and many others."
He was NOT saying Syria is a model of religious freedom, just that they're apparently on the right pathway. He is right that they are ahead of Iran and Iraq in terms of religious freedom. There's nothing wrong with encouraging them to continue that. |
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Mr McCullough,
There's plenty of real evil in our world. Would you mind not manufacturing any excess?
Warren and Obama both seem to be attempting good works. Ofcourse they will fall short.
And you? Besides the ready criticism, do you have anything else to offer? Any constructive ideas of your own we might investigate?
Sorry to be harsh, but I suspect your intent is good.......but show it, please! |
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Ok, Rick Warren is not the conservative I would like. But this is rediculous. Encouraging people to call and complain??!!
Do you have any right to impeach Warren's motive in his work-Obama, Syria or otherwise?
Believers, indeed conservative believers, must work amongst the less dicisplined.
Kevin, are you angry at me for having taken the message of Christ to socialist German lawmakers? that I cooperate with them to seek common ground?
Let's take a deep breath before we put our brothers and sisters in stocks...or shooting at each other in a circle. |
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Kevin,
I'm a talk show host from Milwaukee, Wisconsin with the Crosstalk Radio Talk Show and we are the ones who sent out the press release on Warren in Syria that AP picked up. Nobody else was bothering to cover it. This entire Syrian debacle is the result of his sycophant followers checking their minds at the door and building up a media/celebrity who really believes he is now Captain Planet. His invitation to Barack Obama is the lowest thing I have seen yet from the Pied Piper of Purpose but we should prepare to see more. He is attempting to take all of evangelicalism to the left politically, while claiming that he just wants to serve the poor, the AIDS victims and do "creation care" by stopping global warming. He has been in bed for some time with the left wing foundations such as Hewlett which support abortion worldwide. This is only the beginning unless someone starts blowing the whistle and warning the lemmings of evangelicalism. Doctrine and truth no longer matters, only popularity with the world. The mainline denominations did this 100 years ago and Rick Warren is leading us down the same path. I am covering this on my blog at http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com. Thanks for the great links. |
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