Rick Warren compares himself to Hitler; yet another reason for Obama to disinvite him

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Chad Rubel

The ultimate insult against someone you disagree with is to compare them to Adolf Hitler. So when someone rather prominent compared Pastor Rick Warren to Adolf Hitler, you would think Warren's supporters would be aghast and outraged about the comparison.

Except for one problem: the person who compared Warren to Hitler... was Rick Warren.

Warren compared himself to Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Tse-tung in a gathering before a large crowd at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA, home of MLB's Anaheim Angels.

Looking for further proof? An excerpt from this speech:

"In 1939, in a stadium much like this, in Munich Germany, they packed it out with young men and women in brown shirts, for a fanatical man standing behind a podium named Adolf Hitler, the personification of evil.

And in that stadium, those in brown shirts formed with their bodies a sign that said, in the whole stadium, "Hitler, we are yours."

And they nearly took the world.

Lenin once said, "give me 100 committed, totally committed men and I'll change the world." And, he nearly did.

A few years ago, they took the sayings of Chairman Mao, in China, put them in a little red book, and a group of young people committed them to memory and put it in their minds and they took that nation, the largest nation in the world by storm because they committed to memory the sayings of the Chairman Mao.

When I hear those kinds of stories, I think 'what would happen if American Christians, if world Christians, if just the Christians in this stadium, followers of Christ, would say 'Jesus, we are yours'?

What kind of spiritual awakening would we have?"

He later asks the crowd to hold up signs saying "Whatever it takes."

The MSM presents Rick Warren as this relatively kind, benevolent figure because they are afraid of confronting any major right-wing religious figure, and they are afraid of confronting their followers. And that Warren comes across as "less crazy" than Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.

These charismatic religious figures utilize Jesus as this empty symbol, drawing people in and then substituting their own approach, regardless of whether Jesus would have ever endorsed their philosophy. So they think they are worshipping Jesus when, in reality, the target is the preacher.

But the better question is whether Barack Obama should have someone such as Rick Warren playing a vital role in the inauguration of the 44th president. While the MSM is afraid to tell us what Warren is truly about, those who follow him know the truth, and those of us who aren't afraid of Warren know what truly is going on.

As scary as Robertson and Falwell were, the new generation of right-wing radical religious figures are much more marketing-savvy. And Warren is at the echelon of that spirit. Power is the core of Warren's concern, not religion or faith or anything Jesus ever taught.

"Whatever it takes." To do what? Giving Warren the legitimacy of his place in the Inauguration makes him stronger, not weaker. And given his extreme stances on his fellow human beings, that makes us off to a less than ideal start on Tuesday.

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