The Broken Wings of The Religious Left & Right

“Religious” Left’s Influence by Donald Hank
Medical experts know that pathogenic bacteria and viruses aren’t the only worrisome microbes out there. They speak of a “vector,” which is a bacterium that in itself is generally harmless but can serve as a host to a harmful, if not deadly, virus.

Rick Warren at the inauguration.
The American left has long strived to use religion as a vector to carry the deadly message of the Democrats to gullible Christians, and in this year’s election, it paid off big time. Evangelicals fell hard for the message of Obama thanks to numerous hardworking disease-carrying vectors among the religious community.

Rick Warren is easily identified as a key player for the Democrats, not by the religious right but by none other than Howard Dean. Who are we to argue?

According to the San Francisco Chronicle a while back:
Howard Dean, Democratic party chairman, recently credited Rick Warren and Joel Osteen with helping the Democrats.Dean specifically cited the positive impacts of Christian leaders such as Rick Warren - [...] — and of young pastor Joel Osteen….

Warren recently lamented America’s lack of civility in a televised speech and urged everyone to be more civil. However, someone from Rick’s Saddleback church pulled some strings and had a Christian web site critical of Warren taken down. And on a radio show, guest Pastor Wiley Drake reported that after he had recently criticized Rick Warren for his participation in the Obama inauguration, he began getting nasty emails from people who said they were members of Rick’s Saddleback Church, with many using profanity, lambasting Wiley for criticizing their dear leader. Civility seems to be a one-way street for these folks.

Now a group including Tony Campolo, a prominent spokesperson for the religious left, has risen to defend Rick Warren and his decision to offer the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. In an open letter, these gentle champions of civil discourse harshly condemn more-traditionalist Christians who object to Warren’s being unequally yoked with the pro-abortion Democrat.

Right-wing religious leaders are attacking the purpose-driven Pastor Rick Warren for inviting Senator Barack Obama to speak at a seminar about AIDS. Why the attacks? Because they disagree with Obama’s politics. Well, we’re hitting back.

Hitting back? What happened to turning the other cheek? Shouldn’t they do as Jesus preached and turn their sweet pink cheeks for some more of what was dished out, and not hit back? Tsk tsk tsk!