LTRP Note: The title of the following article by Newsweek and the Washington Post is “Rick Warren, Interfaith Activist.” Lighthouse Trails believes this is an accurate name for Rick Warren–he IS an “interfaith activist.” More concerned about establishing a Purpose Driven global kingdom that about warning the world of spiritual deception and the impending dangers, Rick Warren has done an injustice to the Gospel message of Jesus Christ all the while ridiculing, marginalizing, and belittling the body of Christ. And anyone who has studied interspirituality (interfaith) knows the premise of it is that all paths lead to God. Interspirituality rejects the words of Jesus Christ who said, “No man cometh to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6).
“Rick Warren, Interfaith Activist”
by Eboo Patel
Newsweek/Washington Post
Rick Warren is our new Billy Graham – at the center of not only his own Christian tradition, but of American civil religion as well. Churches follow his direction (most recently into Rwanda), and political candidates seek his blessing. . . .
Last week at the Clinton Global Initiative, Warren was asked how “the church” could help to solve poverty. His response was to rattle off the numbers of Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians in the world – in that order – and make a plea that the public and private sectors take seriously “the faith sector as the third leg of the stool of successful development”.
This is a big deal, because it signals an important turn in the American Evangelical tradition – from viewing people of other faiths primarily as lost souls requiring conversion to viewing them as partners in the plan to make earth more humane and just.
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Quotes by Rick Warren at Clinton’s Global Initiative
“There are 600 million Buddhists in the world, there are 800 million Hindu’s in the world, there are a billion Muslims in the world, and there are 2.3 billion Christians . . . And there is already an army ready to be mobilized, an army of compassion, in those villages. They’re called churches or mosques or temples or synagogues.”
“[W]e are not interested in simply wealth redistribution, we’re interested in wealth creation, and there is no reason at all why those churches can’t be involved; in fact, I would give you lots of examples
where they are involved in the kind of things that Muhammad is doing in creating wealth, in creating jobs, in training jobs, and things like that. And I hope we can discuss that.”
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