Pastor Rick Warren Promoting "Chrislam"
By Steve McConkey
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, plans to build a PEACE Center near Los Angeles to create peace between Muslims and Christians according to the Orange County Register.
According to the article, Warren has been outreaching for years to Muslims. He has broken Ramadan fasts at a mosque and has addressed 8,000 Muslims at a national convention in Washington D.C.
Warren's church and Muslim leaders co-authored a document outlining the points of agreement between Muslims and Christians. Both sides affirmed they believe in "one God" and share the "love of God" and "love of neighbor."
They agreed they would not evangelize each other. Warren has stated in the last few days that the Orange County Register article contained errors, however, the editor said he got all the facts correct.
Rick Warren and others who follow him are being led in the wrong direction. Instead of fulfilling the Great Commission of winning and building men and women in the faith, they are building a Tower of Babel that leads to nowhere. Something like the "bridge to nowhere."
The problem with Rick Warren is that he promotes New Age authors, doctors, and false religions one day, and then the next day, he makes vague comments about why he does not believe what they do.
It is not what a person says, but what they do. By his practice, he does not present the truth of the gospel clearly, but endorses false religions and cults by silence.
In Acts 17, Paul went into Athens and reasoned with the people. At the end, he talked about the resurrection. Some mocked Paul and others got saved. Muslims mock the resurrection of Jesus Christ since they believe Jesus was never crucified, not a great Easter message.
Warren has confused the Great Commission with the Great Lie, we can reach man with a little truth, but more love. However, 1 Corinthians 13:6 says "Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth." As we love others, we need to present the truth clearly despite the resulting persecution. This is a time for courage, not cowardice!
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"They agreed they would not evangelize each other."
And the Muslims expect the Christians to keep that promise?
"The problem with Rick Warren is that he promotes New Age authors, doctors, and false religions one day, and then the next day, he makes vague comments about why he does not believe what they do."
One more question is how is the author defining "false religions"? Are we talking scientology and evangelical Christianity? Those are pretty false, considering that one was made up for profit and the other has been prostituted and bastardized for profit while radically departing from the core values that it started with.
As far as the other religions that Christians consider to be "false", the only ones that are, in fact false, are on the FBI's "cult watch list". The rest are actually legitimate. Some far more legitimate than fundamentalist/radical/evangelical Christianity or fundamentalist/radical Islam. Those religions that are "new age" religions are either resurrections of the old, pre-Judao-Christian-Islamic religions/cults or they are pre-Judao-Christian-Islamic survivors of the Christian persecutions. Interestingly enough, The Jews and Muslims didn't persecute Pagans to nearly the same degree that Christians did. And unlike Christianity, you can tell the real religions from the cults since the real ones do not ask for, nor expect, money or financial support and they do not charge to teach. Christian churches love to beg for money. They live for it. The mega-churches most of all, after all, those un-Christ-like monuments to God cost a lot of money to build and maintain.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
All Religions are False.
Chuck
Islam / The Sharia-Compliant American Left By George Neumayr
In the 1970s, the American left embraced the Ayatollah Khomeini. Jimmy Carter's United Nations representative, Andrew Young, said that in time Khomeini would be seen as "some kind of saint." The BBC and New York Times defended Khomeini as a potential progressive during his days as a Parisian layabout in exile. Carter's ambassador to Iran assured the skeptical that "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure."
Today's American left displays its useful idiocy by insisting after each new act of Islamic terrorism that "Islam is a religion of peace." MSNBC is the unofficial headquarters for these useful idiots and now numbers the mugging and giggling morning host and "Republican" lightweight Joe Scarborough as a member in good standing. In between goofing around with Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's stuck-up daughter Mika, Scarborough often shills for the Gandhi-like figures of Islam today. He longs for that glorious day when fellow Republicans abandon their bigotry and see a mosque near the ruins of the World Trade Center as American as apple pie. Eugene Robinson, whom MSNBC hosts incessantly introduce as a "Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist" before his insight-free appearances, wrote a column this week titled "Sharia the new Red menace?" Robinson chuckled at Newt Gingrich's recent comment that Sharia law is seeping into western countries through "stealth jihadis."
"The 'stealth jihadis,' I suppose, must be like the 'known communists' on the list in Sen. Joseph McCarthy's hand," wrote Robinson, a gibe sure to impress peers at the Post and New York Times who for years insisted Alger Hiss wasn't a Communist. Robinson appears oblivious to the fact that western liberals themselves have endorsed the spread of Sharia law.
In 2008, Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, supported the adoption of elements of Sharia law in Britain. "It seems unavoidable and, as a matter of fact, certain conditions of Sharia are already recognized in our society," he said. Williams called for "plural jurisdiction" and "constructive accommodation."
The American left's face of moderate Islam, the Ground Zero mosque imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, wrote for Eugene Robinson's own employer in 2008 that Rowan Williams "was right": "The addition of Sharia law to 'the law of the land,' in this case British law, complements, rather than undermines, existing legal frameworks. The Archbishop was right. It is time for Britain to integrate aspects of Islamic law."
First of all, Rick needs to admit to his apparent medication problem.
ISNA is an American arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was founded in 1981 by a group of individuals which included the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Sami al-Arian. In 2007 and 2008, ISNA was named by the United States Justice Department as a willing participant in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.
At the convention, Warren’s fellow speakers included: Siraj Wahhaj, an “unindicted co-conspirator” of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Zulfiqar Ali Shah, the former South Asia Director of KindHearts, a Hamas fundraising group that was shut down by the FBI in February 2006; and Naeem Muhammad, a U.S. staff member of Islamic Relief, a “charity” that the Israeli government has claimed is a front for Hamas. Did Warren vet the other speakers at the event? If he did, like with ISNA’s terror-related past, the concerns were willfully ignored.
And today, he continues to ignore the problems with ISNA, as a photo of him along with his biography are featured prominently on ISNA’s official website, within what the group calls its “Speakers Corner.” That makes Mr. Warren a current assigned speaker for ISNA, a designation that he seems to have absolutely no problem with.
And Ricky is still being called a Christian pastor?
I guess the next wonderful news will be Rick's announcement that Bill Maher will be joining the group?
Rick is about whatever can make him money.
I have a lot of criticisms about Rick Warren, but that one I don't share - he gives away 90% of his income. True, he's still rich on the other 10%, but if he were all about money, he wouldn't give away 90%.
Put his pay in context. The church paid for his house, they pay for the up keep, they pay for his clothes, they pay for his traveling and expenses...of course he can afford to give away 90%.