{"id":602,"date":"2009-01-02T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:13:22","slug":"warren-and-obama-walk-hand-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/warren-and-obama-walk-hand-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"WARREN AND OBAMA WALK HAND IN HAND"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Paul Proctor
\nNews With Views<\/em><\/p>\n

American Family Association’s news editor, Ed Vitagliano, ended 2008 with a curious column at their affiliated OneNewsNow.com website titled, Praying for the new president, where he chastised WorldNetDaily.com’s founder and editor Joseph Farah for taking Pastor Rick Warren to task for accepting President-elect Barack Obama’s invitation to lead the invocation at his upcoming inauguration.<\/p>\n

In Farah’s open letter to Rick Warren, published at WND, he wrote: “I’m sure you would not want to invoke God’s blessing on the inauguration of a figure like Adolf Hitler, whose rise to power brought the destruction of millions of lives.”<\/p>\n

Calling it a “non sequitur,” Vitagliano countered Farah in his article, saying: “Just because one prays for Adolph Hitler does not mean the prayer is meant to ‘invoke God’s blessing.’ One could, conceivably, pray for Hitler’s conversion, or for God to prevent the man from carrying out his wicked plans.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, but at a Nazi Party rally?<\/p>\n

Sure, if they wanted to incite a riot.<\/p>\n

Unless Vitagliano is expecting Pastor Warren to publicly pray for Obama’s conversion at the inauguration, or that God would thwart his “wicked plans,” Ed’s argument is the one containing a non sequitur.Click here to read this entire article.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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