Rick Warren Invocation Controversy
December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment
12/19/08: Rick Warren Invocation Controversy
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January 20th, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
The text of Warren’s prayer is here. There is nothing remotely politically incorrect about it. There are a couple of statements to which I think many of us will object.
According to Warren, “We know today that Dr. King and a great crowd of witnesses are shouting in heaven.” We know nothing of the kind and in fact it is highly likely that if he were alive today Dr. King would repudiate Obama’s policies on a host of issues from abortion to same-sex ‘marriage’. Unlike Obama, Dr King was, after all, a Christian who believed the Bible.
Warren also said, “We are united not by race or religion or blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice to all.” This is unbiblical since every person on the earth is indeed of one blood. What does Warren think, that some of us are descended from apes or aliens?
Warren also managed to pay homage to environmentalism by offering repentance for failing to “respect” the earth. It would have been better if he had said something about failing to respect God’s word.
There was also an interfaith component in the fact that Warren closed the prayer in the name of “Yeshua, Isa, Jesus” – Isa being the Koranic name for Jesus.
All in all it was a pretty weak effort and if he wasn’t prepared to pray anything challenging then it would have been better if he had declined the invitation to pray.