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DID RICK WARREN COMPARE PRO-CHOICERS TO HOLOCAUST DENIERS?
Yes, he did. In an interview with Beliefnet's Dan Gilgoff after his civic forum, Rick Warren said that "If they [evangelicals] think that life begins at conception, then that means that there are 40 million Americans who are not here [because they were aborted] that could have voted. They would call that a holocaust and for them it would like if I'm Jewish and a Holocaust denier is running for office. I don't care how right he is on everything else, it's a deal breaker for me. I'm not going to vote for a Holocaust denier."
Warren also told Gilgoff that Democrats' efforts to talk about faith alone fall flat: "just because a person can say 'God' and 'Jesus' and 'salvation' and whatever doesn't mean they have a worldview. And people want to know what do they believe, not just their personal faith."
--Sarah Posner
COMMENTS (6)
Is Warren saying here that he believed Obama to be insincere about his faith?
Posted by: Michael Bloom | August 18, 2008 3:04 PM
Is Warren saying here that he believed Obama to be insincere about his faith?
Basically... yes. Conservative evangelicals have long denigrated the faith of people who don't believe exactly as they do; this isn't news. I'm sure that Warren, if he felt he was in private and speaking only to friends, would be much clearer about not believing that Obama is insincere about his faith.
Posted by: NBarnes | August 18, 2008 4:06 PM
Looks like Obama and the Democratic party got punked by Rev Warren.
Posted by: CParis | August 18, 2008 4:15 PM
I compare pro-choicers to McCain:
"It means I'm saved and forgiven."
Antinomian heretics all of 'em. The guy's a fucking liberal!
Posted by: Anonymous | August 18, 2008 4:26 PM
As an inhabitant of the Bible Belt - land of the one-issue voter - that sort of talk really gets to me. I'm still waiting for somebody to produce evidence for "life"-at-conception as strong as evidence for the Holocaust's existence.
What Warren and evangelicals like him have the greatest *faith* in is their own infallibility.
Posted by: V.O.R. | August 18, 2008 4:51 PM
Conservative evangelicals have long denigrated the faith of people who don't believe exactly as they do; this isn't news. I'm sure that Warren, if he felt he was in private and speaking only to friends, would be much clearer about not believing that Obama is insincere about his faith.
Posted by: Tower Defense | April 25, 2009 3:05 AM