February 12, 2010

Ridiculous Radicalis observations

Today Rick Warren dealt with "dealing with critics" on the last day of his Ridiculous conference

Unfortunately since I had to be at a funeral, I could not listen. I do hope that someone provides me with audio or Saddleback provides us with an online source to listen to this wonderful (ahem) stuff.

Anyhow several people were in the chat room yesterday at that link, questioning what was being said, and of course immediately they played their Pharisee cards. No surprise there.

But today they blocked the IPs of those who dared speak against the protestant Pope Rick (or at least mine). And here I thought they had said something about love and tolerance for those who are 'different' than you.


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Apparently they also had been begging and bribing people to tweet about the conference and spread the word. Don't they think that if people were actually thrilled about the conference they wouldn't need bribing to spread the word?

And several shots of the audience revealed a rather sparse attendance. Rick Warren is Losin' Share!

Some of the questions I raised before being kicked (took all of 30 seconds to 1 minute):

*I remember wondering if Rick will emphasize that the effects of sin are not just for this life.

*That far more important is the fact that until we repent and put our faith in Christ alone, we are dead in sin, by nature children of wrath, and under God's wrath.

*I guess that was not cool

*I also asked a couple people who kept saying we should focus on what unites us rather than what divides, if they ever have worshipped with mormons or why they don't go to a mormon church.

*Never got an answer.

*Approximately the last thing I said was when one of them told us not to throw the baby out with the bathwater and I said "what baby?"