Recently I have been spending some time on Twitter engaging Muslims, and the non-Muslims who support Islam. Here is short conversation with Pastor Rick Warren. For those who do not know, Warren is a mega-Pastor who speaks at Islamic conferences. One of which was the 47Th annual Islamic Society of North America Convention (ISNA).
LogansWarning Christopher Logan
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@RickWarren……Islam calls for the dominance over Christians, and yet you do not condemn Islam. You have failed Christianity.5 Aug
In response Warren had sent me this message.
RickWarren
It is a 100% false rumor Christopher.See http://bit.ly/pQAVhh But you gave me the opportunity to pray God blesses u greatly
5 Aug
If you go to that link you can see Warren tried to play words games. I never said a word about Chrislam, I said Islam.
My reply to Rick was the following:
LogansWarning Christopher Logan
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@RickWarren Please don’t play word games with me. I did NOT say you support Chrislam. I said you do not condemn Islam.
5 Aug
At that point the mega-Pastor ran away…..
The next day I decided to send him one more Tweet.
LogansWarning Christopher Logan
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@RickWarren Good work on ducking my return reply to you. Mohammad was rapist. Why do you not condemn him?
6 Aug
The Pastor has decided to take the easy way out and ignore me. Like I said, he has failed Christianity.
Is that it? I expect more proof!
The picture is the proof. Do you always defend Islam supporting “Pastors”?
Chris, the man is a false prophet, his fruit bears deception, and by the way how are you!
Hey budddy!
I’m good, how are you?
Sent ya an email awhile back, no response, figured you up too your eyeballs dealing with Morons!
I must have missed it. Sorry!
Proof? Why don’t you study what Rick Warren has said about Islam yourself?
The subject of the story was the exchange.
Why is it that the Islamophiles always run when you hit them with truth? They preach as if they are so wise, and know it all, and then when you quote scripture or facts from the quoran, they’re suddenly silent? Matthew 11:18-19… “For John the Baptist doesnt even drink wine and often goes without food, and you say “He’s crazy”. And I, the Messiah, feast and drink, and you complain that I am a glutton and a drinking man, and hang around with the worst sort of sinners!” But brilliant men, like you, can justify your every inconsistency”.
Islam is incoded with GOD’s name IAM. Why?
Hallelujah is encoded with the name Allah. Why?
Coincidence?
@ Dave, what are trying to say? There is NO comprison in islam and Christianity.
Typed to fast comparison
There is a theroy that the Vatican wrote the Koran. They used it for “Gaining strenght by provoking assailants.” They used this principal right out of the Art Of War. Creating a conflict and then controlling both sides covertly. Read Rulers Of Evil by Tupper Saussy. That’s all I’m saying. The code is there. Islam is a creation of the Vatican. btw – Jesus Christ is my Lord, God and King.
The theroy is completly false Dave. I’m not a Catholic, just a simple Southern Baptist Preacher, so I’m not defending The Vatican, just telling you as a student of The Holy Bible, as a student of the un-holy qur’an, the theroy has absolutly no merit. Sorry.
Regardless of denomination, the doctrines of Christianity are extremely clear.
God’s creation of the cosmos and humanity.
His redemption of humanity from sin by his Son, Jesus Christ.
His sanctification of his entire creation through the power and persistent work of the Holy Spirit.
These are not fantasies– they are held as true by Catholics, Orthodox, Evangenical, and all kinds of Protestant sects.
As I see it, the only Protestants who have anything to fear from Islam because of weak doctrine are the non-Trinitarians.
But I’ve spoken of their weaknesses before.
Prove Islam is a creation of the Vatican.
The Crusaders of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries all fought under the banner of the VATICAN, under that of Pope Urban II!
I am laughing in your face!
Jan Sobieski, victorious over Islamic conquerors.
A CATHOLIC!
Vienna, Austria, 1683.
A Catholic Christian city– victorious over Islam!
Charles Martel, Western Latin Catholic Christian, victorious over Islam, 732!
Battle of Lepanto, 1571, fought against the Ottoman Turks.
Catholics victorious over Islam!
I am still laughing in your face.
I thought that one might get you fired up eib!
Some time ago I wrote a lengthy email to Chris about the nature of anti-Catholicism in the U.S. and why it might be persistent. At the same time, to deny the primacy of the Catholic Church from A.D. 1 to about 1507 and to refuse to recognize that Christian armies fought against the Arab and Turk for centuries under its banner is just a sickening and profound ignorance of Christian history.
I also want to make it clear that there is a Papal instruction written in 2004 forbidding the reading of any Islamic or non-Christian scriptures or the practice of any non-Christian doctrine in the liturgy of the Mass.
The Koran will not be read in any Catholic church under the Pope.
As I’ve said, sometimes a top-down organization has tremendous advantages against Islam.
Allah does not mean “I am who I am.”
Your “encoding” is profane.
There are no conicidences; the Arabs were pagans before Christ, they remained so after Christ, and Islam was their way of defending themselves against a belief system that would have sickened them because of its demand that the individual is responsible for himself, his sins, his worship, everything except his redemption and salvation!
Salvation is in the hands of Jesus Christ.
I believe in God the Father Almighty,
And I believe in his only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Who was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
2 Sentences.
4 personages, 3 of them having the same substance.
You could never say it.
You do not believe in the same God, indeed you have no faith in God at all.
allah shmallah bo-ballah hallah
http://www.christianpost.com/news/muslim-extremists-in-india-attack-threaten-christian-women-53500/
I guess these Muslims don’t know anything about “encoding”.
STUPID. you can take any word and mix and match letters to get what you want. The truth is that Islam is a lie that is damning many to hell. Sadly people that WANT to honor God …but are following the Wrong God
G-d’s true name is encoded in Hebrew and Islam’s true name is encoded in Arabic. Not the same thing at all. Same for allelujah, which means praise the L-rd. Allah is a moon g-d, also NOT the same thing.
Yes, but “God” is “Dog” spelled backwards! What do you have to say about that? And “live” is “evil” spelled backwards. Does that mean that it’s evil for you to live? And if so, why don’t you do the right thing and kill yourself? Plus, “art” is encoded in “fart,” so does that mean that everytime I fart my name is Picasshole? See if you can uncode this: fu*k *ff!
Chris, whatever you say, he will not get your words even if you are true.
For him, and people like him you are a racist, hater, ignorant about Islam…they are simply brainwashed by Muslims who keep telling them lies….they will never believe you…. He need someone who lived in the heart of Islam to tell him the truth about islam …..he need to know that he is a useful idiot, but not from you Chris, he needs people from the middle east and ex- muslims……..he need to know the truth from people who came from the snakes cave to tell him the true nature of snakes…..otherwise, you waste your time, and he will go more against you and like the ass of his Muslim masters more and more.
Hi Maggy,
This is not about me, but I know for a fact that I have changed the minds of people who supported Islam. Including some who voted for Obama. So I have to continue to do what I think is best.
Thanks!
Maggie, what those self-righteous AssWholes need is a good swift introduction to the fatal facts: http://snooper.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/the-defamation-of-jesus-christ/
will jam those facts in their eye in ample form. Just send them the link.
The link to this post has been Tweeted to Warren.
Jack Van Impe has publicly called Warren out on this.
Recently?
Yes Sir within the past 2 or 3 weeks
Did Warren respond? I tried to find Van Impe on Twitter, but no luck.
Almost 2 months ago I sent you the links
I dont think Jack Van Impe gets on Twitter; I believe he has little time for it. He does have a website: http://www.jvim.com
He has a weekly tv program; he puts countless hours in study the Bible and study various things that relate to bible prophecy and recently exposes Islam as well.
I watch Jack and Rexella every sunday night and he hammers Warren on every program, he event lost air time with Paul Crouch on the TBN network for a dvd Van Impe made concerning Chrislam!
If you check this so-called pastor’s politics, you’ll probably find he’s as far left as Jessie Jacskon and Al Sharpton….the similarity and common ground between the far left and islam being they both demand a totalitarian approach to governing their areas. The only difference with this guy is that at least, he has an actual church that he’s pastor at.
Thanks Reverend!
Not to surprising that he would duck this. I read his book Purpose Driven Life when it first came out and I always thought that he never really addressed anything directly, but has a great knack at avoiding reality. Side stepping the truth and “lukewarming” the gospel so as not to spark any controversy is just what the modern world wants. Nothing could be more repulsive to the God he claims to serve.
I am going to contact him. Thanks Emm!
He’s a total tool. I also read his book and found it worthless. He’s completely underwhelming as a Christian and now he’s complicit with evil. He’s a minion of Satan as sure as the musloids are.
This quote is on Rick Warren’s site:
“To go a full week without admitting at least one of your OPINIONS was wrong means you’re neither listening nor learning.”
It’s been a week and he still hasn’t admitted he was wrong about pIslam.
Some Muslims are kind and considerate, and they do listen and convert. The truth is that the really nice or good Muslims are very much like the nice or good Christians. But this is because they, the nice or good Muslims, aren’t really following the evils that Islam teaches.
The truth is that the nice or good Muslims don’t know that Islam calls for violence, cruelty, death and destruction. The true Muslims at this very moment are practicing Islam in Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and in other backward Muslim Third World Countries. Notice what these true Muslims are doing: They are killing each other because they are following the Qur’an and other Muslim historical documents that call for violence, death and destruction.
Let’s hope and pray that the nice and good Muslims may never learn Islam. Let’s hope they follow Jesus to the letter.
When most Muslims I’ve been acquainted with met me, they’ve understood right away that I am a Christian and have a strong commitment to my own faith.
So far, they have respected this part of my personal make up. I’ve never been told to my face that I am worshipping profanely, and I don’t show contempt for Islam if I am being treated with equity.
I believe that good deeds and tolerance should be rewarded.
Still, there is the dialogue that happens here, in which we state the doctrines of Christianity and how different they are from Islam. As Christians, we must think of Islam as profane, Muslims think the same of the body of Christian doctrine.
There is no unity in diversity.
The only protection diversity can count on is diversity itself.
It’s a tall order that Americans have been up to fulfilling for the most part.
God knows, though, just how this nation’s encounter with cultures that differ so radically from its very foundations will turn out.
I want the Western foundations of our culture to survive and be dignified.
I’m trying to figure out why you think you’re so important that Rick Warren should feel obligated to respond to your rants…?!?
He did respond once, and when I called him on it he ran.
What is that you are doing to prevent your future generations from being dominate by Islamic Law?
Quote “Please don’t play word games with me. I did NOT say you support Chrislam.” and yet you head your post, with a reference to him being an “Islamophile”. It seems to me YOU are the one playing word games. Warren gave a very clear unequivocal answer and yet you failed to address a single issue instead keeping the “Islamophile” heading and hiding behind the assertion that ” I did NOT say you support Chrislam.” True, you did not use that word but your intent was clear = word games. Your refusal to address Warren’s response rightly earned a no reply.
What a remarkable response! It reveals a great deal about your attitude to anyone who dares express a contrary opinion.
“I will decide what I think is right, not you.” I see. You can tell the likes of myself and Rick Warren what we must think, but we in turn cannot express a contrary opinion in return without vitriol and mocking? Remarkable!
You tell me not to speak for you (which I didn’t – I simply expressed my own viewpoint) then in the next sentence you speak for Rick Warren: “He didn’t reply again because he took the easy way out and ran to the hills.” Astounding!
The love of Christ is evident in Rick’s response. Sadly, I see nothing of Him in yours. I respectfully pointed out what I believe to be an inconsistency in your approach and you respond with abuse, condescension and further inconsistency?
So be it.
No, you came here making a false accusation and I responded. If he loved Christ so much he would not be supportive of another religion which states that Jesus is going to come back and destroy Christianity.
I take from this post and your previous one that you definition of the term “islamophobia” is “someone who supports Islam”. So let me quote Rick’s response and allow the reader to decide whether or not your claim is accurate:
“As a 4th generation Christian pastor, my life & ministry is built on the truth that Jesus is the only way, and our inerrant Bible is our only true authority.”
“You cannot win your enemies to Christ; only your friends, so we must build bridges of friendship and love to those who believe differently so Jesus can walk across that bridge into their hearts.”
“Jesus was called “the friend of sinners” by the legalistic Pharisees because he hung out with (and clearly loved) unbelievers. I HOPE YOU will 1) Always believe that EVERYONE needs Jesus as their Lord & Savior.”
I do not see anything in these responses that indicate Rick Warren “supports Islam”. Yet you defend the use of the term “Islamophile” in relation to him and deflect his clear statements by pointing out that you never actually accused him of embracing Chrislam. No you accused him of far worse! Instead of accusing him of mixing Christianity and Islam you accuse him of supporting Islam.
That was not his response to me (meaning it did not address what I said), and he speaks at Islamic conferences. That is not accusation, that is a fact. The man does not even have the moral courage to state the truth that Islam is the enemy of Christianity.
Listen do not play games here. I am not deflecting his “statements”, because he only made ONE statement to me. So stop trying to bring in other content that did not happen into the conversation.
Rick Warren: “To my Islamic brother…..
http://ivarfjeld.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/rick-warren-wants-interfaith-projects-with-islam/
On Saturday, July 4th 2009 attendees of the 46th annual convention, with the Theme of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, were addressed by Rick Warren of Saddleback church who told them that “the two largest faiths on the planet must work together to combat stereotypes and solve global problems”, and “Some problems are so big you have to team tackle them,”
http://www.discerningtheworld.com/2011/03/04/rick-warren-islams-useful-idiot-a-dhimmi-or-both/
The man is a disgrace to Christianity.
Dean you wrote: ““You cannot win your enemies to Christ; only your friends, so we must build bridges of friendship and love to those who believe differently so Jesus can walk across that bridge into their hearts.”
I’m interested in knowing what you think of the following Scripture:
Matthew 10:13-15
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
13 If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. 15 I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Or this one, and especially in Pastor Warrens posistion verse 11:
2 John 1:7-11
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
7 Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. 11 Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.
I’m curious to know how you or Pastor Warren would respond to that.
One other thing you may also want to see what Rev. Van Impe has had to say about Pastor Warren.
Good question Reverend Dan.
Dean, is Reverend Van Impe wrong for calling out Warren on this issue?
I did not in fact “write” that Dan. I merely quoted Rick Warren with the intention of showing that he does not “support Islam”
Allow me to address the intent of these verses below.
If he did not support Islam, he would not have said my Islamic brother. Do Jews go around saying my Nazi brother? Warren is giving the impression that Islam is no threat to Christianity.
There is no game. That WAS his response – you displayed the link in his response above. It was not something I “brought in”. I’m curious as to why seem determined to ignore the link and state “he only made one statement”. It’s Twitter after all!
He “speaks at Islamic conferences”? Jesus visited the homes of sinners and was condemned by the Pharisees for that.
To once more quote Warren “Jesus is the only way, and our inerrant Bible is our only true authority.” Is that not “condemning” Islam? Try saying that to a Muslim and see their response! True, Warren has not responded with condemnation, labeling them “enemies” I for one am glad. Jesus refused to label tax collectors and prostitutes “enemies” yet did not agree with the belief systems that led them to do what they did. His love challenged and overcame their false beliefs.
Please continue to stand for God’s Truth. We hold that in common and you are my brother. But we can stand for Truth without being adversarial even if our opponent should choose that route. The greatest force for change in the world today is the love of Christ. Those who minister to Muslims will tell you that’s it’s this love that leads them to repentance. Not condemnation.
HERE is the entire conversation. The link was about Chrislam. I did not ask him about Chrislam.
LogansWarning Christopher Logan
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@RickWarren……Islam calls for the dominance over Christians, and yet you do not condemn Islam. You have failed Christianity.5 Aug
In response Warren had sent me this message.
RickWarren
It is a 100% false rumor Christopher.See http://bit.ly/pQAVhh But you gave me the opportunity to pray God blesses u greatly
5 Aug
If you go to that link you can see Warren tried to play words games. I never said a word about Chrislam, I said Islam.
My reply to Rick was the following:
LogansWarning Christopher Logan
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@RickWarren Please don’t play word games with me. I did NOT say you support Chrislam. I said you do not condemn Islam.
5 Aug
At that point the mega-Pastor ran away…..
The next day I decided to send him one more Tweet.
LogansWarning Christopher Logan
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@RickWarren Good work on ducking my return reply to you. Mohammad was rapist. Why do you not condemn him?
6 Aug
Did Jesus praise the sinners? Condemning Islam means to come out and actually condemn it. He does not do that. “Christians” like Warren are part of the reason Islam advances, and Muslims walk all over the Christian community. I do not respect him.
Firstly, I’m somewhat amused that you accuse me of “bringing in other content” when I merely referenced the link in his reply to you, and then immediately you introduce “other content” by way of the links you mention.
But that aside, let me address the points made by Warren in the YouTube clip and see if they actually reveal him to be a “supporter of Islam”.
He advocates freedom of religion. Nothing there about supporting Islam. Just a basic human right.
He advocates a joint approach to achieving the UNs humanitarian millennial goals, not because he agrees with others beliefs but because a unilateral approach stands the greatest chance of succeeding. Again nothing about supporting Islam.
He advocates working together across religious boundaries to overcome Aids. Again nothing about supporting Islam.
He speaks against the emptiness of materialism and hedonism. Again nothing about supporting Islam.
So your point was?
That content of that link is IRRELEVANT as I did not ask him about Chrislam. Do you understand that yet? The rest of the conversation is what matters.
If he were truly for freedom of religion, he would stand against Islam. If he did not support Islam, he would not have said combating stereotypes in the other link I posted. Do you need a blueprint?
Correct. You did not ask him about Chrislam. You asked him why he did not condemn Islam. His answer, which i quoted from was very clear. Furthermore you labelled him an “Islamophile. I simply pointed out that based on his reply he is clearly not.
It was very clear he though he could change the focus from Islam to Chrislam. He was wrong.
One more time, he speaks at Islamic conferences. He says “my Islamic brother”, he quoted from the Koran during a prayer. If you cannot figure it out from there, that is on you.
He mixing the Bible and Koran in a prayer is Chrislam. That makes him a liar as well.
What Warren is doing is the equivalent to a Jew shaking hands with a Nazi.
Really? Or a Jew speaking to a Samaritan woman?
Yes really, what a ridiculous comparison.
The Jew and the Samaritan Woman and the Jew and the Nazi are a faulty comparison.
Indeed, between a Samaritan woman and a Nazi, there are nothing but contrasts.
Nazism was a racial ideology.
The Samaritan is a member of a nation not founded on any ideological or imperialist platform.
Thank you. I read the reply including his link, and I quoted from it.
Dean, I do Minister to Muslims almost every single day of the year. From what you write I know your heart is in the right place. You do need to understand Islam better. Yes we need to love as Jesus does, however just as Jesus said to shake the dust when you aren’t welcome, you must understand to a devout Muslim when someone of Pastor Warrens stature address’s Islamic conferences, it is a sign of weakness. To them it signifies Allah and Muhammed are superior.
AS Christians we must stand against evil. If you study Islam, as a Christian you can come to no other conclusion of Islam than it is evil.
Thank you for your considered response Dan and may God bless you for your work to the Muslim community. I do not pretend to have more first hand knowledge than you clearly have.
Firstly I have studied islam at college and I agree with you that Islam is “evil” in that it is contrary to God’s Truth. Secondly I agree that there is indeed a time to “shake the dust off ones feet and move on”. Thirdly if interfaith “anything” involves compromising the essential truth of the gospel then I am opposed to it. In short I am not a “Islamophile”.
Thank you for your point regarding a perception of “weakness” when one addresses a conference. This was a new insight for me. The question I am left with though is, is this necessarily a bad thing? If obeying Christ makes me appear “weak” then I will gladly embrace weakness. Should we order our lives in such a way as to not appear weak to our enemies? Or should we order our lives according to what we believe to be right. I choose the latter.
Warren quoted the Koran. Implying the God of Islam is the same as the God of Christianity.
Islam expert Robert Spencer at JihadWatch.org, an organization dedicated to bringing public attention to jihad theology and defending Western society, criticized Warren for including a common refrain from Islam’s Quran – “You are the compassionate and merciful one.”.
Read more: Warren’s ‘inclusive’ prayer ignites reactions http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=86640#ixzz1VQ8Sqnwl
Dan, any thoughts on this?
Again you introduce more material while refusing to respond to my comments on a link sent to you by Warren as a reply to your tweet.
I would happily make response this this however, I will first await a response to the three quotes I referenced from Warren’s reply to you. I pose the question to you again: what indication is there in his response that he “supports Islam”?
I did respond. I also posted where he quoted the Koran is prayers. Is that not enough evidence for you?
Thanks for your response Dean, now I get to explain. The weakness issue is very important. When a Muslim Brother or Sister even here in the USA, they risk EVERYTHING. Family, friends, careers, and yes in America even death.
I know of a 16 year old Iranian/American who a close friend of mine was Ministering to. This young man accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. His family and friends made life very difficult for him before he was Baptized. He resisted his family, his friends, and continued growing in his Faith. Then he was Baptized.
Nothing his family or friends did to him, which was considerable would make him convert back to islam. Against his will, they packed him up and sent him to relatives in Iran. He has managed very, very little contact in the year to year and a half he’s been there. He has paid a tremendous price for his Faith, if he is still alive.
Christians have to allow the Love of Christ shine thru them, but if they are going to try and Minister to Muslims, they can not appear to appease Islam. Thats one reason most of former Muslims I know who found Jesus, are some of the most Devout, most outspoken Christians I’ve ever been around! They paid a huge price in their life on earth for their Faith! They are also the ones who are usually the most upset anytime a Minister appears to be appeasing Islam!
Blessings to you Dean, may the love of Christ continue to shine thru you!
Dan
I should have proof read before I submitted lol. In the 1st paragraph that was suppossed to say When a Muslim Brother or Sister accepts Jesus Christ, even here in the USA…
Thank you again fro your response Dan. I’ve come across similar accounts and such people are inspiring to be sure. I advocate a “no compromise” to faith and yet I admit I fall far short of such a standard when I stand alongside such fine believers.
Let me respond by raising a couple of points and asking for you thoughts. Firstly you said “to a devout Muslim when someone of Pastor Warrens stature address’s Islamic conferences, it is a sign of weakness. To them it signifies Allah and Muhammed are superior.” the invitation to speak came from the Islamic leaders. Was the invitation not a sign of weakness? The account of the conference here http://www.christianpost.com/news/rick-warren-to-muslims-talk-is-cheap-lets-work-together-39543/ includes words of great praise for Warren. A Christian might (wrongly)interpret this as “weakness” on Islams part.
Secondly, the content of Warren’s address was unequivocal. He supports people of all faiths working together to solve humanities problems. I quote: “You know as an evangelical pastor, my deepest faith is in Jesus Christ. But you also need to know that I am committed not just to what I call the good news, but I am committed to the common good.” He called on the members of the two largest faith communities in the world to not only figure out how to live in peace and harmony with each other, but also to find a way to work together for the greater good without compromising each group’s convictions.
Let me ask you Dan, is there anything you disagree with here in what Warren is saying?
May God’s blessing be upon you too Dan and your work in His name.
Dean, this is what I disagree with – He called on the members of the two largest faith communities in the world to not only figure out how to live in peace and harmony with each other, but also to find a way to work together for the greater good without compromising each group’s convictions.
Because of the commandments in the Qur’an, Hadith and especially in the Reliance of the Traveller its impossible. Look at o11.5 1-7 from the Reliance of the Traveller also at o8.0-.7. Remember when reading this it was published in 1991 and revised in 1994. It is THE Classic Sharia Law manual in use today for Sunni Muslims. When you add to that the Commandment for Christians to go out and spread the good news it is impossible. Please don’t misinterpet this to mean I think we should declare war on all Muslims. Nothing could be further from the truth I don’t.
When I go to other Churches and speak, I purchase the Pastor a copy of The Reliance of The Traveller, The hadith of Bukhari Volumes 1-4, and the Qur’an translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, I believe if you read those you will understand what I am trying to say.
As to your question of weakness, and it being a sign of weakness for the Muslim leaders by having Pastor Warren speak absolutly not. Anytime they are able to get a Pastor involved in “interfaith” dialoge it helps their cause. Remember Truth to Jesus is of utmost importance, therefore it is to Christians. Islam is not hampered by the truth. Muslims are instructed to lie to advance the cause of islam.
Dean I’m not trying to just be critical of Pastor Warren, or make you feel differently about him. I only wish he and other Christian leaders would study Islam BEFORE they make comments about it. Before they address “Interfaith Conferences”. It would make my “job” already very difficult, much less difficult!
The issue seems to be what he meant by the statement “the common good” was he talking interfaith dialogue as you claim? Or interfaith projects such as the elimination of aids and poverty. I’ll let his words speak for themselves: “I will tell you that I am not interested in interfaith dialogue. I am interested in interfaith project. There is a big difference,”
Dean, you and Warren need to grow a spine. You and and him are weak “Christians”. I am not even religious, and I stand up for Christianity more than both of you do.
Rick Warren: ““Jesus is the only way, and our inerrant Bible is our only true authority.”
Rick Warren: “my life & ministry is built on the truth that Jesus is the only way, and our inerrant Bible is our only true authority.”
Rick Warren: “we must build bridges of friendship and love to those who believe differently so Jesus can walk across that bridge into their hearts.”
Rick Warren: “ I HOPE YOU will always believe that EVERYONE needs Jesus as their Lord & Savior.”
You: “I am not even religious”
I’m not sure how this makes you a better advocate for Christianity. Respectfully, I’ll go for Rick Warren’s Christian beliefs over yours anyday.
The Bible says to fight evil. Islam allows pedophilia and rape. That is as evil as it gets, yet he promotes Islam. Like I said he is a disgrace.
Christians have been persecuted under Islam for 1400 years, and the best you can do is look for excuses from Warren. YOU are part of the problem.
I suggest you read about the Crusades 🙂
The Crusades were the result of 100’s of years of Muslim aggression. I suggest you educate yourself.
Did Rick Warren quote the Qur’an in his inauguration prayer? NO! (and yes)
It’s true he said the words “And you are the compassionate and merciful one.” and its true these words appear in the Qur’an.
Now, if I call my waif the “compassionate and merciful one” and I offending her by quoting the Qur’an? I’m sure she’d say NO! KEEP GOING! He logic might be “The Qur’an said that in relation to Allah, but you are saying it in relation to ME!”
So the person to whom the quote is directed is the deciding factor in whether it is wrong or OK to say those words.
If Rick Warren has addressed his prayer to Allah then I would have serious concern. If he had addressed it to Allah and God (or Yahweh/Jehovah) I would have concerns too. So who does he address His prayer to? “Almighty God, our FATHER” (emphasis mine). Islam does not address God as Father. It is a peculiarly Christian term taught to us by no less than Jesus. And God describes our Father as “compassionate and merciful”… because he IS! And to say that we should desist from saying so simply because a false religion with spurious scriptures chose to include those words in their holy book is frankly baffling to me! Even more baffling is the implication that when we call our Father God compassionate and merciful we are somehow compromising the Christian faith leaves me speechless (and some might pray I stay that way!) 😉
Dean,
Give it a rest, he quoted the Koran. The Bible says to fight evil, Islam allows pedophilia and rape. It does not get any more evil than that. Warren is a disgrace to Christianity.
The disgrace is an unbeliever who accuses a man who has devoted his life to Christianity of being a “supporter of Islam” and a “disgrace to Christianity” who when presented with evidence to the contrary ignores the evidence and resorts to sarcasm and the same unsubstantiated vitriol. Respond to the FACTS of what I present if you can. If you do not and simply revert to the same tactics you have previously employed I will assume you have no answer.
I have presented the evidence over and over. The man promotes Islam. You just do not have the guts to face this reality.
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The disgrace is an unbeliever who accuses a man who has devoted his life to Christianity of being a “supporter of Islam” and a “disgrace to Christianity”
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It’s no disgrace is the case is verifiable through public conduct, statements.
The Nicene Creed asserts 3 things about the Christian Church:
1. it is holy
2. it is catholic (that means that it applies to everyone, its protections, its offer of salvation, knowledge of its doctrines etc.)
3. it is apostolic.
You cannot judge the conduct of an unbeliever differently than you would the conduct of someone who believes.
2 standards for 2 people is not Christianity.
It’s because you accommodate this kind of doublethink and groupthink that you can’t understand the threat Islam poses to the West.
Shall the unbeliever be given a different standard of conduct than the believer?
That’s Muslim thinking if ever I’ve seen it.
Again, there is the in-group outcast or one/ other thinking.
Pastor Parsley condemns Islam, Reverend F. Graham speaks the truth about Islam. Warren promotes it. So stop with the nonsense Dean!
Nothing that is “baffling” to you surprises me. Do you condemn Islam? Yes or no? Your response decides if you stay here or not.
Do I condemn Islam? Earlier in this post Reverend Dan said, “If you study Islam, as a Christian you can come to no other conclusion of Islam than it is evil.” I responded, “I have studied Islam at college and I agree with you that Islam is “evil” in that it is contrary to God’s Truth.”
If that is not clear enough, yes I condemn Islam.
I also condemn sarcasm, condescension, putting words in other people’s mouths, a refusal to address clearly made points and finally,threats if someone doesn’t say here what you want them to say.
There is irony in your threat. Your definition of Islamophobia (which is YOURS – no encyclopedia agrees) characterizes Islam as a religion that “represses all who do not follow its doctrine”. Hmmmm…
“Repress” me if you wish sir. 🙂
I usually assert that Islam is profane. I don’t view that as a condemnation.
Rather, I view it as an unavoidable truth given the content of Christian doctrine, the scriptural instruction of Matthew 7, and on the basis of my own Western education, preferences and standards.
Muslims fear nothing more than being judged by standards that are not their own, and that is why they are so imperialistic and intimidating.
It is they who have yet to realize that they are merely one culture among many.
It is they who must learn tolerance and to allow others to exist.
So while I say that Islam is profane and Muslims are, by deduction misled, I also assert that Muslim righteousness, conquest, enslavement and submission to these are all evil.
They are all fruit of the poisonous tree.
And the tree cannot help but be poisonous.
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Study it more, and this time, according to your own guidance.
In other words, keep your own counsel.
In the college environs, particularly in recent times, that is impossible to do.
Read Islam from the point of view of the conquered, the enslaved, the raped and the Westerner.
Righteousness and rage, the better part of Islam, are not truth.
1. It was a Christian College/Seminary. Baptist.
2. Quote me one thing I have said about Islam here that is incorrect. Be specific please. Thanks
Whether or not what you write is “correct” or “incorrect” is not the issue here.
Do you understand the very basic differences between Islam and Christianity?
Do you understand why Christians and Western Christians in particular, must defend themselves and their civilization from the carrot-and-stick campaign of the OIC and CAIR?
Do you know why a site like this exists?
And do you also understand that there are other sites like Answering Muslims, Jihad Watch, and Gates of Vienna, which are even more in depth about the Western case against Islamic domination and about the Christian ministries to Muslims?
If you think this is it you’ve only scratched the surface of the movement to defend the West.
And if you think the West needs no defense, then be happy in your delusion.
Actually it IS the issue. Your previous comment is condescending. “Study it more.” you sir have no idea what I know and don’t know! I have only shared a very small amount that points out that there is no evidence to back the claim of this thread that Rick Warren supports Islam. Neither you nor anyone else here has been able to present a shred of evidence to the contrary. The closest anyone has got is to say he said one line in a prayer addressed to FATHER God (the Christian God) that happens to be in the Qur’an. And that makes him a supporter of Islam???? That’s it??? Absurd.
So if you are going to reply to my posts please stick to the topic. It is whether or not Rick Warren supports Islam. Your evidence please? Please don’t tell me I need to do more study and then when asked to point out what I have said is wrong, simply say “that’s not the issue!” lol
Dean, stop whining already. All of the regulars get along fine here. In other words lose your attitude.
Right, it just HAPPENS to be in the Koran. Save the spin.
Myriad, myriad, are the cultures that have been destroyed by Muslims under the aegis of Mohammed.
Dean, please check this out
Surround Them with Prayer: Preachers who open the Pulpit to Islam
http://surroundthemwithprayer.blogspot.c…
Sorry the link didn’t work try this one http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsurroundthemwithprayer.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fpreachers-who-open-pulpit-to-islam.html&h=gAQDbkXBMAQCmKJPPs2G4jukRzayNDkinDu5aZcZPSlbJbg
Thank you. Yes I am aware this sort of thing goes on. It is not something I would endorse.
You came here with a ridiculous accusation, and an attitude. Do not think you are going to get respect back.
Yes it is MY definition, that is why it says “Logan’s Dictionary”. Did you actually have to look at other definitions to figure that out? Lol! You are nothing more than a distraction to a serious problem. We are done.
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“I have studied Islam at college and I agree with you that Islam is “evil” in that it is contrary to God’s Truth.”
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You judge by your college education, but you do not judge Muslims and Islam “by their fruits”.
Indeed, I think you would fear to do such a thing because you would find Islam monstrously evil (without quotes).
And speaking of the ICNA . . .
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/08/islamic-circle-of-north-america-calls.html
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The rise of Islamophobia fostered by individuals such as Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller has threatened our communities and prompted such acts of violence. ICNA calls upon the international community and the Obama administration to take action against hate groups and so-called ‘experts on Islam’ who promote this kind of bigotry.”
The Islamic Circle of North America is a leading American Muslim organization dedicated to the betterment of society through the promotion of Islamic values.
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The enemy shows his hand.
Not very democratic.
No, not very democratic at all.
Where reason leads, the Muslim may not go.
And where reason leads, the Muslim will make sure the non-Muslim cannot go either!
Support “Islamic values”?
Never. I’d rather lose my head first.
No ones asking you to “support Islam”. They are just asking that you not be a misinformed hateful bigot. You may not lose yourhead but you talk like the brain has already gone!
Prove that I am “misinformed”.
This is also the obsessed freak Dean. LOL!
eib is no hateful bigot and is most certainly NOT misinformed!
He is back under yet another IP address. lol! No games here Dean, I don’t respect you, and I am not sitting here waiting for you to respond. I get alerts on all posts. So lose the ego obsessed freak. Islam is a major threat to non-Muslims, and I will continue to unite people against it. That is a fact!
The enemy shows his hand.
Surah 5:14
14. 15 From those, too, who call
Themselves Christians,
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We did take a Covenant,
But they forgot a good part
Of the Message that was
Sent them: so We estranged
Them, with enmity and hatred
Between the one and the other,
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“We” did take a covenant?
Who is we?
Islam, the community of Muslims.
In this verse, Muslims claim to have existed before Christians.
A lie, a lie, a lie.
Surah 18:
18. 20 (Both) the Jews and the Christians
Say: “We are sons
Of God, and His beloved.”
Say: “Why then doth He
Punish you for your sins?
Nay, ye are but men,
Of the men He hath created …
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This verse tells us that Muslims deny Christ and they deny the adoption of Christians into the family of salvation.
Another lie, lie, and lie.
Surah 5:47
47. 50 Let the People of the Gospel
Judge by what God hath revealed
Therein.
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Now I agree with this verse.
I also agree with Matthew 7, on false prophets, “Ye shall know them by their fruits.
On the basis of these two texts, I judge Islam.
Islam is profane.
Get over it.
Surah 5:51
51. 54 O ye who believe!
Take not the Jews
And the Christians
For your friends and protectors:
They are but friends and protectors)
To each other. And he
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Amongst you that turns to them
(For friendship) is of them.
Verily God guideth not
A people unjust.
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I agree with this verse also, particularly the last sentence, “Verily God guideth not a people unjust.”
And God does NOT GUIDE MUSLIMS!
Allah guides Muslims, an unjust, evil spirit of the world.
That is the essence of Allah.
All of these from:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq005.htm
I just wanted to show you some things in the Quran I agree with.
😉 as usual, great job eib!!!
There is a probability that Dean = Rick Warren.
My two cents: As a Christian I would not want to legitimize the Islamic movement by speaking at an Islamic conference as Mr. Warren did unless I was going to “preach” with passion the good news.
This is the fatal flaw of anyone attempting to defend Mr. Warren in this regard. The word of GOD convicts the sinner. Mr. Warren did not impart the “Good News” (i.e. god as man/Jesus, death, burial and resurrection for atonement of sin) at the Islamic conference.
To simply pray for the Islamic non-believers who attended the conference would have been better than what Mr. Warren did.
GOD will Judge us. While I will stand convicted and ashamed, I will receive unmerited mercy for my faith is in Christ.
Were I called to speak to Muslims I would speak only one sentence:
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Nothing else need suffice, because if Muslims learn to say these words with conviction, they will be saved.
And the salvation of even one soul is better than simple earthly validation of the stranger’s beliefs.
We are not living to validate Islam.
We are living to speak of the salvation of a merciful God, who created all people and desires that all be redeemed.
Jesus didn’t tell us to go into the world and bring all people together as one big happy family. He said to preach the gospel.
We are not talking about people here, we are talking about false religions. It is what we belive that is wrong. There is only one way. If we love people we must tell them the truth. There is onlly two choises. Heaven or Hell. If we don’t tell them the truth, we will be judged. You can’t stand on the fence an ignore your responsiblity to God. God never said we will have global peace. What is Rick Warren trying to do. Bring in the false church in Revelation. That is what it sounds like to me. We are nearing the end times and satan is on the war path deceving pastors who started out well and are falling in to the New Age movement. God help us.
Amen! well said Lillian Painton!
Welcome to the site Lillian!
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True.
And many Muslims point to the quotation, “I come not to bring peace, but a sword.”
The meaning of this statement is so clear from the context that the Muslim case falls through. Jesus clearly meant division and conflict. Christians and Westerners understand that these things can exist without war, and that they need not lead to war.
But war becomes absolutely necessary when you have an adversary who believes that conflict must be destroyed, that the dissenter or other must be vanquished or destroyed.
This is the case of Islam. Their equalitarianism and supposed belief in humanity all arise from the destruction of the other, the one who is not a Muslim.
Their peace is one brought about by nothing but genocide.
The peace of Christ, we are told, passeth all understanding.
That means that it is not brought about by human action, but by God himself.
Islam appeals to the oppressed because it tells them that they are superior, that they have the right to destroy those who might be more prosperous.
It tells the poor that the property of the rich non-Muslim belongs to them, and that they are sanctioned to take it and destroy the non-Muslim.
Islam is a religion of war, war, and war.
There is absolutely no peace and life in Islam. It is the peace of death.
Hey, Rick is my Church Pastor.He is not playing word games, and he has ceirtantly not FAILED Christianity. He has a lot to do, he doesn’t have all the time in the world to reply to every facebooker on planet Earth. You do better yourself at what he is doing. If you can’t, YOU are the FAIL.
Unlike him I speak the truth when it comes to the Islamic threat to Christians, and also do not buddy around with Muslims who are looking to take over America. Warren responds, that is until you ask him the tough questions on this issue. #FAIL
Been reading most of this dialogue about Warren’s (I believe to be well-intentioned but ignorant of what Muslims think) attempt to bring two religions out of hatred (or one, Islam) but I know enough about Muslims and the weakness test and also they are taught to lie to infidels and to get rid of us no matter what the action is.
We won’t know what they’re REALLY planning or thinking, they will pretend.
I do not see a “coming-together” of the two religions. To do so for a Muslim is to no longer be Muslim.
As far as that analogy of dusting our feet off when speaking to a non-Christian and it being okay to hang with them, the tax collector and other sinners were not ultimately out to kill Jesus as Muslims ultimate plan is.
Read 23 years by a Muslim who wanted his book to come out post-humously but somehow was released too soon and is not dead due to this book.
Ravi Zacharis mentioned buying this book.
I am a relatively new Christian, was an agnostic for 49 years. Got knocked around enough in life to finally drop to my knees.
Am now a bit obsessed with Jesus and Islam and learning and I do not fear for myself but my kids and grandkids futures in America because of the left-wing media’s love of Islam’s movement and ultimate plans.
I watch CBN, a Christian News station that pointed me in the direction of the youth in France forming an organization against Muslims and are a bit mad at the older generations for allowing this to happen and also are angry at the financial problems Muslims have caused and the bombing of churches etc…….much as in America we voted for Obama and the financial problem my kids will inherit. CBN let me to that French site which led me to Logan’s site.
Diane
The road to hell is paved with good intentions only when the good are ignorant of where they’ve been.
Historical and theological ignorance have a very, very high price.
Hey by the way, I was watching “The History of us” on the History Channel the other day. I knew the media wants to change history but this floored me and I emailed the History channel and they ignored me.
They go into history of the world and speak of the Christian Inquisition and how Christians took back Jerusalem and other countries but completely leave out the war of the Muslim Conquest in the (what?) 600s or 700s. To a thinker what were the Christians taking back if the History channel didn’t even mention it was first taken away?
I won’t watch the History Channel anymore,they lie.
Seems to me that either left-wing channels are either ignorant of facts or want Islam to take over the world by not revealing the truth about what Muslims did and are still trying to do and covering for them. This political correctness will be the end of all except for Muslims. I totally do not get all the secrets. Even Fox News didn’t tell me about Génération Identitaire’ (The youth in France’s group) sick of Muslims, I heard via CBN (Christian Broadcast Network)
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There was no “Christian Inquisition.”
The Crusades were carried out and kept up by secular authorities.
The Spanish Inquisition was more Spanish than Christian.
Again, historical error, just another form of taqiyyah.
Diane,
Many on the far-left call us Islamophobes, but they are the ones who are truly scared of Islam. They have already surrendered their freedom of speech to Islam, and FOX News is slowly following suit. Sean Hannity actually respects Islam. Do a search here on his name, and you will see.
I wonder if Rick knows the truth or if he is just another tv preacher willing to “sale his soul” for the money ? The ISNA is part of a psychological warfare against Christianity and everybody else who isn’t willing to submit their will to the Idol of Islam Muhammad..
The ISNA promotes Sharia law in America ..
Frankly I’m sick of “Christians” who seem ever eager to sacrifice Christ for Muhammad…
http://www.isna.net/
Thank you for the repost!