Amen.
The Secret Life of Carl Jung
by Richard Noll
Posted on 11/20/2006 5:44:21 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Megapastor Rick Warren's Damascus Road experience (Megapastor Rick Warren admits he's in CFR)
Posted: November 20, 200 1:00 a.m. Eastern
WASHINGTON – Rick Warren, the superstar mega-church pastor and bestselling author of ''The Purpose Driven Life,'' had a Damascus Road experience last week – and like Saul of Tarsus, one of the after-effects appears to be blindness. Warren went to Syria and could find no persecution of Christians. He could find no persecution of Jews. He could find no evidence of extremism. He could find no evidence of the sponsorship of terrorism.
Despite the temporary loss of vision that prevented him from seeing any evil in the totalitarian police state, Warren's hearing was apparently not affected – for his ears were tickled by what he heard and apparently accepted lock, stock and barrel from the second-generation dictator, Bashar Assad, and his state-approved mufti.
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But that's not the story Warren is telling – at least not in the official press releases he is sending out from Rwanda in response to my confrontations with him last week in which I accused him of betraying his own country in a hostile foreign land and of being a propaganda tool of the Islamo-fascist regime in Damascus.
In fact, after I called him out last week in my column, Warren e-mailed me claiming to have been misquoted by the official Syrian news agency.
''Joseph, why didn't you contact me first and discover the fact that I said nothing of the sort?'' he pleaded. ''The trip was a favor to my next door neighbor, had nothing to do with policy, and was done with the State Department's knowledge – who told us to expect exactly what Syria did – a PR blast. I don't pretend to be a diplomat. I'm a pastor who just gets invited places.''
I pointed out to Warren that WND had indeed attempted to contact him about his trip. No one from his Saddleback Church ever returned our calls the day the story broke.
''I'm sure since you were warned in advance by the State Department that you took the precaution of recording your own words,'' I suggested in my response. ''We look forward to seeing the transcripts or hearing the recordings.''
I also asked if he could respond specifically to the words put in his mouth by the Syrian news agency. And lastly I suggested that he should have ''counseled with me, or other people knowledgeable about the Middle East before doing so much damage with your reckless trip.''
I really didn't expect to hear back from Warren – but, a few minutes later, I did, with an absolutely stunning retort.
He let me know he is a close friend of President Bush ''and many, if not most, of the generals at the Pentagon.''
He also told me he did not tape anything while in Syria, ''because it was a courtesy call, like I do in every country.''
Warren explained that he had also counseled with the National Security Council and the White House, as well as the State Department, before his little courtesy call for a neighbor.
''In fact,'' Warren added, ''as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Oxford Analytica, I might know as much about the Middle East as you.''
He continued: ''I hope you'll not choose to believe Syrian propaganda even though, as you pointed out at the start of your article, you've been wanting to criticize me for some time. In spite of your rush to judgment, I think you write great, insightful columns. You are almost batting 1,000.''
No sooner had I received this surprising response from Warren, I also got an e-mail providing a link to a YouTube video of Rick Warren in Syria explaining how great the Assad regime treats Christians and Jews and how Damascus ''does not permit extremism of any kind.''
Not one to let lies go unchallenged, I wrote back to Warren with a link to the YouTube video: ''If you didn't tape anything, what's this? Do you really believe Syria does not allow extremism of any kind? There are more terrorist organizations based in Syria than anywhere else in the world!''
It might be that Rick Warren, deep in the bush of Rwanda, never received those last questions, because he never responded – at least not in the last three days.
He did, however, within minutes make sure the YouTube video he recorded independent of his meetings with the Syrian brown shirts was removed from the network. Vanished. Kaput. Sterilized. Cleansed.
Stay tuned for more on Rick Warren's ''Agenda-Driven Life'' in the coming days – sponsored, of course, by the Council on Foreign Relations.
You can be sure that if there was anything about Joe Farah that was worthy of exposure, Hitlery Klinton would have exposed it by now.
He's an excellent newsman.
We must be in different galactic clusters.
The question is which spirit?
I speak only of what happens in this one.
later reading
I'm exceedingly UNconvinced of that!
The CFR is definitely anti-Israel and anti-Zionist, but to the "palaeos" "Zionism" doesn't refer to the movement to create a Jewish state in the Land of Israel but to "the plot to rule the world." That's how a lunatic like Alan Stang can actually defend Israel from "Zionism," since "the Zionist conspiracy" has now declared war on it.
There are still plenty of "conservatives" who think that "Zionism" is the engine of all evil in the world. About a week ago I was being harassed and stalked by one of these Nimrods just because of my screen name (therefore I was "in on it"). This nonsense has been going on for a long time. The Protocols claims to be the minutes of the First Zionist Congress (Basle, Switzerland, 1897) and Nesta Webster (a particular favorite of the Birch Society) also thought that "Zionism" was the "hidden hand" behind all the trouble in the world.
Of course, now that the the UN and CFR are blatantly anti-Israel and under attack by "neocons," I suppose that will now make them heroes to the Birchies and other "palaeos."
What else would a "Globalist" or supporter of the "New World Order" speak of. And OMG I believe in Free Trade.
A large number of Christians who believe in the actual word of God is a good thing, as long as the message of God is more important than the pastor. Where the true spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
The CFR is definitely anti-Israel and anti-Zionist
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Thank you very much for that answer!!! That's all I need to know.
The CFR is definitely anti-Israel and anti-Zionist
Thank you very much for that answer!!! That's all I need to know.
You've never heard of the Council on Foreign Relations? They're one of the biggest and most traditional of the Birch Society/"palaeocon" bugbears. But the thing is, the "palaeos" think that the CFR is one of the major organs of the "Zionist conspiracy."
Rick Warren sure has some cool Hawaiian shirts he drapes over his belly
Yes, he is a true fashion hound.
justshutupandtakeit is on the other side of the 'big bang,' moving away from earth at .999C
LOL. Amen.
Amen.
And the shorts & sandals simply complete the ensemble.
No it is not. The Vatican doesn't try to appeal to those who are really not believers. I just worry about those selling charisma and where the pastor is too big, bigger than God to his parishoners. I always remember the Jim Jones thing. Perversion. So easy for people to be swayed falsely. I really do not see the Vatican interfering much with the Christian religion if people are not a Catholic. Good? Maybe, Maybe not.
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