Posted on 07/04/2009 7:18:22 PM PDT by rawhide
WASHINGTON Speaking to a crowd of nearly 8,000 Muslims at the Islamic Society of North America's annual convention in Washington D.C., Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren called on Muslims and Christians to form an interfaith coalition to combat prejudice and stereotypes.
While Fourth of July revelers staked out seats to watch fireworks at the nearby Capitol Building, Warren addressed convention-goers – some of them from Orange County Muslim student associations – about the need for mutual respect.
"Tolerance is not enough," Warren said. "People don't want to be tolerated, they want to be respected, they want to be listened to. They want to be valued."
Armed with four ideas for action, Warren called on Muslims and Christians to work together to create respect, restore civility to civilization, promote peace and tackle major world problems.
"I am not interested in interfaith dialogue, I am interested in interfaith projects," Warren said. "Talk is very cheap."...
..."I think what he said was fantastic," said Shiran Elkoshairi of the Adams Center Mosque in Virginia. "Historically, that (interfaith co-operation) was the way things got done, but we have forgotten that over time."
Elkoshairi said he especially liked how Warren said that love is a verb, an action rather than an emotion.
"I am commanded to love and I am commanded to respect everybody," Warren said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Guess 2 Cor. 6:14-18 isn’t in Rick’s Bible.
Historically, when you merge good and evil in a dialogue, evil takes over the good. See the pre-flood civilizations.
It’s the sin of Balaam.
I don’t have much time in my life to conduct joint projects with muslims.
I will, however, do my part by raising my christian children to understand the Golden Rule. I will include jewish people in this lesson.
I hope muslim moms across the world will do the same.
Is this guy just getting senile in his later years???
Oh. And my comment was in response to the one about taking care of our families. (It gets complex here sometimes. :))
Warren is snake oil salesman conman and fool. He is clueless about over a thousand of years of history of Islam. Rick Warren of the Camel Back Dhiminitude Church.
def hard to work with someone who wants to elimitate all christians.
Rick Warren thinks HE wrote the Book, not that he should actually be listening to the One who wrote it.
I think he's worse. He's a "Christian" pastor who cares more about cooperating with evil than he does sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He's leading his congregation straight to hell via inconsequential diversions.
Rick, read the Qu’ran. Especially the latter Su’ras.
Some “Christians” think hugs and compromise can solve every problem. So what’s the compromise position with a religion that wants everyone else dead or enslaved or between a fetus and an abortion doctor? Read THE Book Rick, there is no compromise with evil.
His congregation are fools. There are dozens and hundreds of good reverends and priests who are not collaborators with evil. This does not include the scum abortion school of NotreDame.
Rick Warren: Member of the Council On Foreign Relations
Jesus preached separation. Warren obviously didn’t read that book in the Bible.
Damn straight. I don't care what you "tolerate." I just want you to stay the hell out of my mess. If you can't, then there's gonna be trouble. That's the American Way.
So we are buddy. At the same time, you would be a fool to forget that they are commanded not to take you for friends, and to impose humiliations on you when they rule.
How can that work when Islam wants the entire world to be Islamic?
Exactly!
Rick Warren is a phony, IMO!
Reverend Warren needs to travel a bit and learn first-hand how Christians fear for their lives....
Islam investigator ejected from DC Muslim conference
Snippet: With a high-profile Christian keynote speaker, Rick Warren, the Islamic Society of North America billed its July 4 national convention here as a major outreach to non-Muslims, but it chose to eject by force an American investigating Islamist radicalism in the U.S.
Muslims attack fleeing Christians with acid
Snippet: Muslims apparently angered because a Christian man driving a tractor reportedly tried to pass a Muslim on a motorcycle have rampaged in one village in Pakistan, destroying Christians' homes and throwing acid on women and children as they fled, according to a new report from Barnabas Aid.
“”I am not interested in interfaith dialogue, I am interested in interfaith projects,” Warren said. “Talk is very cheap.”...”
2nd Corinthians 6:14 “unequally yoked”...
NO. No way. No how. I’m not helping them chop anyone’s head off.
what a joke.
I lodged my comments at the ocregister site. Why do people think that “if you just KNEW what a nice guy Rick Warren is, you wouldn’t say those things!” is an argument FOR what he is saying? What does it matter? His message is full of lies!
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