Time Cover-Rick Warren By Selwyn Duke

Many think California pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life
Rick Warren to be a purveyor of designer religion. Now these critics
have been given some more ammunition in the form of an interview the
mega-church mogul gave to CNN’s Larry King. At issue are comments
Warren made in which he seemed to vacillate in his support of his
state’s pro-marriage amendment, Proposition 8, and appeared indifferent
to the matter of same-sex "marriage" in general.

For example, in the interview Warren said he was “oblivious” to the
Iowa Supreme Court ruling legalizing faux marriage, and, when asked
about the controversy surrounding his support of Proposition 8, he said:

In the first place, I am not an anti-gay
or anti-gay marriage activist — never have been, never will be. During
the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never
once issued a statement, never — never once even gave an endorsement in
the two years Prop 8 was going.

Yet this seems to lie in stark contrast to what Warren said while
addressing his church members mere weeks before the Proposition 8 vote.
Here is a transcript (and video) of Warren’s remarks to those
parishioners:

Read the rest here.

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5 responses to “The Lack-of-Purpose Driven Life: Rick Warren’s Stance on Faux Marriage”

  1. tj Avatar
    tj

    Rick Warren isn’t alone. It’s becoming more and more prevalent for theologians to insist that there’s nothing in the Bible saying that homosexuality is the “unpardonable sin” or that the behavior was viewed much different from fornication. Thomas Cahill comes to mind as an author with theological training who is quick to assure us the ancients didn’t perceive homosexual acts as being especially perverse, that the big sin at Sodom and Gomorrah was inhospitality. I’ve also read that groups such as the Mennonites have essentially accepted homosexuality as normal. So the “softening” on issues regarding homosexual identity and behavior seems to have occurred almost universally within about a decade of dissemination of memes countering long held interpretations of certain scriptures.
    As an agnostic who used to be intensely religious I get the impression that megachurches have become large self-help groups more concerned with making members happy than with giving moral instruction. I’ve also observed how a lifelong member of another prominent megachurch would shush anyone saying anything that she found controverted one of her beliefs by telling that person they had a “critical spirit”. I can imagine the effectiveness such an approach could be in inculcating members to remain doctrinally correct to avoid discord at all costs. With the likes of Rick Warren and Joel Osteen officially promoting the nonjudgemental approach, things appear to have come full circle at last: rudeness/inhospitality is perhaps the only sin people need to avoid.
    This insistence on unquestioning acceptance of church dogma also dovetails nicely with political correctness in the larger community. It’s frightening to think how powerful a tool for mass indoctrination a church can be and to wonder would our own government ever exploit religion for its own ends. Writing this it occurs to me that where I see a possible conspiracy, a more religious person might simply see this as a consequence of abdicating moral responsibility. Either way it seems that public and private opinion are all moving in the same direction very fast.

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  2. sally Avatar

    Putting your weiner in another man’s Poop is sick as it gets.

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  3. John Q. Public Avatar
    John Q. Public

    Gay Marriage is one of many wedges that are being used to down the Great Oak. That Great Oak being family. To destroy the traditional family is to destroy the nation. When it is over and the nation has fallen, the axeman will burn the fruit of the oak and scatter it. Then, having no need of his wedges he will cast them into the ash pit.
    Wedges are “useful idiots” for which many caring Americans seek as their title.

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  4. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    John Q.,
    Portending the bitter irony of your assertion, our weakened nation (and surely it would be) could then be overrun by Moslem fanatics who will impose Sharia. How easy it will be for them to identify homosexuals based on their faux “marriage” certificates. Evidently homosexuals cannot follow the arc of their intolerant assault on morality to see the end-game: that they will be swinging by their necks from trees as is currently the norm in Iran.

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  5. Mike Avatar

    Rick Warren is more interested in being a friend of the world than speaking the truth.
    Maybe he missed James 4:4
    Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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