Posted on 12/13/2007 11:01:38 AM PST by pby
Rick Warren loves to apologize for things he didn't do, for things other people did that weren't wrong, even for things that occurred hundreds of years before he was born.
For instance, he recently apologized to Muslims worldwide for atrocities committed against their ancestors during the Crusades.
He also recently apologized for American "excesses in the war on terrorism."
And he has apologized for the church because it hasn't done enough about the spread of AIDS and problems like global warming.
Yet, I must observe that despite his predilection for apologies, he has a great deal of trouble owning up to his own personal mistakes.
Here we are more than a year after his misguided trip to Syria in which he was used politically by the anti-Jewish, anti-Western, terror-supporting police state, and Warren insists his only error was in posing for a photo op with President Bashar Assad.
The whole episode, Warren says, is just a big misunderstanding. And – guess what – it's all my fault!
Here is what he told WND staff writer Art Moore about the trip to Syria: "The only mistake I made in Syria. This was the mistake. I shouldn't have taken a photo op [with the president]."
In other words, Rick Warren still doesn't get it – despite all the dialogue on this issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Yup...and don’t forget that Warren is a member of the CFR, and according to Warren, a “back-channel” for peace.
AMERICA’S PASTOR PING!
AW ya beat me to it. Excellent Mr Farah, I love the opening paragraph. As usual Joseph hits the ground running!
— WE LOVE YOU!
Jesus be praised!
Yep...Good article!
Farah is one sharp cookie...
Did you see the third WND article that has been posted in which Rick and Kay promote condom distribution?
WHAAAAAT??? So they did learn from Obama then...?
BTW pby — here’s some of that pesky Syria video — since he said no video was shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9RRJm6Qvw
Apparently, from Obama, Hillary, the openly gay AIDS czar and several other liberals.
Warren is supposed to be a pastor and know scripture, after all, he stated on the video that his PDL book contained 1500 scripture passages. If he is so learned in scripture and such a reknown pastor, the 4th genteration of pastors, then why did he so completely mess up a well known passage?
In the clip on Syria, he pointed to a high cliff and said something like when Jesus was out in the desert being tempted, it looked much like that. And the Warren pointed to a cliff and said something like, this might be just like the pinnacle where Satan wanted to Jesus to jump off of so that He would be worshipped, but God wanted Him to hang on a cross first.
Yikes! Both Matthew 4 and Luke 4 say something very different. The second temptation of Jesus in the wilderness was that Satan brought him to the pinnacle of the TEMPLE where he tempted Jesus to jump off so that God’s angels would protect Him. Jesus answered by saying we are not to tempt God. Then the third temptation was that Satan brought him to a high mountain and showed him the world and said that if Jesus were to bow down to Satan, Satan would give the nations over to Jesus.
How can a pastor confuse those two temptations? Esepcially one who claims to be so biblically literate? Even if he made a mistake (we all do), then why didn’t ANYONE catch it? Instead of feeding his sheep the PDL and PEACE and other tripe, why is he not feeding them the Word of God so that he and they can easily recognize such glaring mistakes? I know that in any of the bible teaching churches that I have attended, that error would have been noticed and pointed out by several people. And their congregations total probably less than 5% of his.
Yet, he is America’s pastor? How sad, very sad.
Rick warren is CREEPY!!
That goattee makes him look like a SICKO!! And he looks so SLOPPY!! YUK.
It seems to be pretty characteristic of the PD movement. But not limited to it of course.
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