Wednesday, 28 January 2009

• The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind Exhibit 91293892
  
  Number 16 on America's Most Loathsome People of 2008
  

  16. Rick Warren

  Charges: Dubbed “America's Pastor” by The Nation, he's duped people from both sides of the political spectrum into thinking he's the kinder, fatter version of James Dobson. Though he is fatter, how could anyone think a man who—professionally—quotes a book written by a make-believe space-giant, instructing the murder of homosexuals, could be anything other than a delusional bigot? Still riding the undeserved wave of fame onset by a meth-head kidnap victim’s ownership of his pop-psych hybrid of churchy prudishness and self-help pabulum The Purpose Driven Life, Warren had a big year hosting a presidential forum at his gay-sounding Saddleback Church, helping to pass Prop 8 and being tapped to invoke said make-believe space-giant at Obama's inauguration. Plus, his neatly trimmed goatee is the queerest thing we've ever seen.

  Exhibit A: “God tells us that he created all the land animals on the sixth day of creation, the same day that he created mankind. Man and dinosaurs lived at the same time.” Can you feel the wisdom?

  This is why people think Christianity is a joke.
  Sometimes its scary how much clearer people judge from the outside. I cannot help but draw correlations on just how wrong all of this is to Dr. Block's lecture today. (Phenomenal, phenomenal class...)
  
  

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