[Gamecock]

Pastor Eugene Cho detailed the events of the photo’s posting and said the posting is “a learning opportunity” for everyone to be wary of each other’s cultures.

wary adjective: not having or showing complete trust in someone or something that could be dangerous or cause trouble

[Gamecock]

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[Bryanw92]

Don’t worry Rick. I don’t follow false teachers.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t know whether Pastor Warren or any of us here in the West could have looked at the photo of a ChiCom Soldier and known it had been taken during the period 1966-76.

[vpintheak]

Rick needs to apologize. There is a big differnce between the sermon on the mount and evil gaurds. Man up and apologize Rick!

[truth_seeker]

Good for Rick Warren having a sense of humor. I understand he also gives to charity, such that he is not growing vastly wealthy like some pastors/churches featured here.

Some mega churches and pastors deserve scorn and ridicule, others do not.

[Responsibility2nd]

Warren was wrong to use this type of image as an example of his staff.

It clearly belongs as an image of the Obamao Administration.

[Wuli]

“The typical attitude of Saddleback Staff as they start work each day.”

was Warren comparing his staff to Chinese Communist Party drones, of the Red Guard era (or now) - serfs who follow the words of the head guy as if he were a G-d

if I were on his staff I would not call that funny

[Truth2012]

He knew exactly what he was doing, and his mockery of Jesus and the word of God is filthy.

Just like him.

[El Cid]

“People often miss irony on the Internet. It’s a joke people! If you take this seriously, you really shouldn’t be following me!” Warren posted as a comment. “Did you know that, using Hebrew ironic humor, Jesus inserted several laugh lines — jokes — in the Sermon on the Mount? The self-righteous missed them all while the disciples were undoubtably giggling!”

I was sympathetic with the 'Megachurch pastor's' joke until I read Rick Warren's blasphemous comments about the Sermon on the Mount.
What "laugh lines" in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7) is Warren talking about? The Lord's Prayer? Keeping your treasures in heaven and not on earth? 'Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many go in thereby'? Showing that God's standards are such that anger with someone without a cause is murder; or to lust after a woman who is not your wife is adultery?...

Where exactly are these "laugh lines" that Rick Warren speaks of?

[beethovenfan]

Not funny, Warren.

[Alex Murphy]

The photo....showed a smiling worker in uniform for the Cultural Revolution, which was a social-political movement in China from 1966 to 1976. Millions of people died due to the impact of the revolution. Along with the photo, Warren posted the caption, "The typical attitude of Saddleback Staff as they start work each day.”

Ping for later hilarity!

[DManA]

Never a good idea to make an inside joke public.

[AmbassadorForChrist]

Rick Warren and his Saddleback Church should practice true Grace doctrines from the Apostle Paul our Apostle to the gentiles today - Warren is a false doctrine teaching works salvation and itching ears false doctrine; his lusts of works salvation will result in: Romans 4:4: Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. That reckoning - works salvation will result in Rick and all his followers (not I), a debt which they will never be able to repay God

II Timothy 4:3: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

II Timothy 4:4: And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

[AmbassadorForChrist]

Rick Warren and his Saddleback Church should practice true Grace doctrines from the Apostle Paul our Apostle to the gentiles today - Warren is a false doctrine teaching works salvation and itching ears false doctrine; his lusts of works salvation will result in: Romans 4:4: Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. That reckoning - works salvation will result in Rick and all his followers (not I), a debt which they will never be able to repay God.

II Timothy 4:3: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

II Timothy 4:4: And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

[PAR35]

Inaccurate photo, anyway. He should have used an SS guard, because I’ll bet his staff just follows orders.

[onedoug]

If you take this seriously, you really shouldn’t be following me!”

Really? What a putz.

[vpintheak]

Someone with less hubris would have realized he made a mistake and apologized.

[PAR35]

Give the guy points for being honest about his management style. He obviously runs the organization like a brutal dictator and viciously punishes any dissent.

[Lee N. Field]

Megachurch pastor Rick Warren received criticism this week after posting a photo of a Chinese Red Guard on his Facebook page Monday.

"Can't y'all take a joke?" --Rick W.

Wow. The mind boggles.

Yes, I can find humor in places many wouldn't, but right now we've got our own homegrown violent progressive thug element emerging.

[Salvation]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26/rick-warren-offensive-photo-facebook_n_3997619.html?utm_hp_ref=religion