THIS is what Rick Warren is doing - making up his own religion.
It really grieves my spirit when I read comments similar to the above. I think such comments are over the top and I encourage you to be careful making such statements.
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i AGREE WHOLESALE. But such broadsides and wholesale distortions and falsehoods are the stock-in-trade of the Jr Accusers of the bretheren. And at some point, Holy Spirit rises up within me and blows a whistle and says--tweet, everyone out of the pool, that's hogwash! Unmitigated, UnBiblical, destructive, hogwash.
Look Quix, you seem like a nice person, but you don't appear to have been give the gift of discernment. You're really struggling here to make a case for your view. You need to be more trusting of those who are discerning and really consider what they are saying. There are lots of them here on this thread.