It had been a while since anyone has said “amen” to one of my pithy sermons.
false prophets
Educating Rick Warren On What Jesus Said (and how He Acted)
I can’t believe I have to do this. I was reading an interview that Rick Warren (of the Purpose Driven Life) gave and was struck by something he wrote. So I kept reading the interview and was struck by a few other silly things he said.
Look, I’ve got nothing against Rick Warren personally. From what I’ve seen he seems like a nice guy who does some good work. My problem is with the lack of…shall we say…accountability of his theology. And the lack of reason and logic in his worldview. In his mind, what you do in life doesn’t matter, as long as you declare your love for God, it’s all good.
This leads to some really, really, nasty things when applied to real life, which is far more complex that it seems Mr. Warren is capable of conceiving.
Read on for that argument…
False Prophets Abound
Three quick stories for you, see if you can find the theme…
Reporting from Parowan, Utah — Our trip to the Parowan Prophet began with a letter to the St. George Spectrum. It was set among missives proposing that oil companies bail out Detroit automakers, that county inmates be forced to winter in tents, that lawyers be barred from public office. A rough crowd.
This particular letter to the editor in the St. George, Utah, newspaper carried the headline ” ‘Prophet’ shares grim forecast,” and it was signed by one Leland Freeborn of Parowan, who wrote that he was known to many as the Parowan Prophet.
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“I think that you should hear what my opinion about the Obama election is: that he will not be the next president. I said on my home page in August that if he lost to expect to see the ‘riots’ that 2 Peter 2:13 tells us about. He didn’t lose. But the story is not finished yet. I still think they may begin the riots before Christmas 2008, as I said.”
These riots, according to his prophecy, will encourage the “old, hard-line Soviet guard” to seize the moment and rain down nukes on the United States, killing at least 100 million of us.
“Prepare now,” Freeborn’s letter concluded. “We are downwind from Las Vegas. I hope you can survive.”
Good luck with that one buddy. I’ll bet you $100,000 you are wrong. It should be an easy bet for you to take, I know it is for me. And I’m not a betting man.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A Vatican bioethics document Friday condemned artificial fertilization and other techniques used by many couples and also said human cloning, “designer babies” and embryonic stem-cell research were immoral.
The long awaited document from the Vatican‘s doctrinal body marked a big step by the Vatican into the brave new world of biotechnology, an area in which governments around the world are struggling to formulate legislation.
Yea, quite a brave new step there, condemn everything new, rather than give guidelines on how to use these tools God has provided effectively and morally. “Don’t Use The Hammer,” was not an effective policy when they were first invented. “Don’t Hit Your Thumb With the Hammer,” would have been better. “Don’t Kill With It,” is already assumed.
The next major battle over evolutionary theory is likely to occur not in the United States but in the Islamic world or in countries with large Muslim populations, because of rising levels of education and Internet access there, as well as the rising importance of biology, a scientist now says.
Like with Christians or Jews, there is no consensus or “official” opinion on evolution among Muslims. However, some of them say that the theory is a cultural threat that acts as a force in favor of atheism, says Hampshire College’s Salman Hameed in an essay in the Dec. 12 issue of the journal Science. This is the same beef that some Christians have with evolution.
No. Stop. Turn Around. I know y’all are generally about 150 years behind the West in scientific thought, but please don’t follow the path of the nutters and deny what is obvious and where evidence is plentiful. Learn from the Hebrews and study this shit and make cool stuff.
Really, if you guys figure out this genetic stuff you could finally tell how many living children the Prophet *really* has. We can finally settle this “syed” business for reals. Science is your friend, give it your right hand.
We Need to Ask McCain to Explain This
VQR » The Christian with Four Aces
“You need to be born again,” his mother told him, bombarding the couple with gospel tracts. At her urging, Robertson had dinner with an acquaintance of his mother, an itinerant evangelist named Cornelius Vanderbreggen, at an elegant restaurant in Philadelphia. Robertson was impressed. “I was used to the expensive bistros around New York, but that a faith missionary should say the Lord had led him to dine at this restaurant where the waiters wore white tie and tails was more than I could comprehend,” he wrote. “I thought that God’s people wore shabby clothes, baggy trousers, and suit coats that didn’t match. I thought they ate hamburger and boiled turnips.”By the next day, Robertson had undergone a conversion experience. “Dede, I’m saved!” he exclaimed to his wife. He took the nude down from the wall and put it out with the trash and, to Dede’s consternation, poured all their cognac down the drain. Although his wife was seven months pregnant, Robertson trekked off to a Christian summer camp in the Canadian woods to commune with God.
“Please come back. I need you desperately,” Dede pleaded in a note.
“I can’t leave. God will take care of you,” Robertson replied.
Robertson believes that one night in his cabin, as he lay on his cot, Satan spoke to him, trying to dissuade him from his path. But Robertson resisted.
Ahhh, nothing like abandoning a pregnant wife to figure out how to bilk money from believers to live a lavish lifestyle.
Pretty impressive if you ask me, and I’m a pirate.
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