Rick Warren's trip to Syria was not "just a pastor getting invited places" as he claims.

Date:   11/17/2006 6:01:09 PM ( 18 y ago)

Recently Lighthouse Trails Research ( http://www.fromthelighthouse.com/blog/index.php ) has been posting some excellent articles on Rick Warren's recent trip to Syria. Here is what I have to say about all that.


Rick Warren is either the most naive or the most dishonest "pastor" around.

Did he skip history class, where we learned that during the Cold War westerners were given red carpet "tours" of Communist countries? Those were propaganda shows all the way, with fake stores full of food and fake shows of prosperity and freedom. Warren's assessment of the conditions in Syria shows either how easy he is to be decieved or how easily he tells lies.

The fact remains that he should never have been allowed by the State Department to go to Syria. To have sought out their approval is indeed to pose as a diplomat, no matter what spin Warren would like to put on it. You don't just get up one morning and skip off to a country hostile to your own at your neighbor's invitation. This was planned for a long time, and is much more than simply the result of talking to one's neighbor over the backyard fence.

Then to do all that and whine about how people take it, blaming bloggers and the internet, is so transparently bogus I don't know how he expects to fool many people. On the other hand, he's fooled quite a few already, but he's really pushing his luck now. He can't expect thinking people to buy his "hey we all make mistakes" line. And he himself uses the internet to his advantage, so his use of the cliche about it is hypocritical.

Perhaps some good will come of it: people will finally see Warren's true colors. If he gets away with it, and I suspect he will, then the sky's the limit. He will be able to control at will the blind and deaf "churches".

 

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