August 15th 2008
Your Largely Lame Responses To My Invitation
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week back, I asked you to provide me with questions you would like Pastor Rick Warren to ask of Barack Obama and John McCain tomorrow when they appear at Saddleback Church. As a former church leader who never got purged from Pastor Rick’s leadership list when I moved on to a smaller church, I was in a unique situation of being asked to submit questions for Rick’s review.
Generally, but not exclusively speaking, what a bunch of bozos you turned out to be.
Most of the questions I received were of the “Why don’t you show your birth certificate or Selective Service registration?” and “Are you really a citizen/are you not a Muslim?” variety. Get over it! You’re as boring and falsely fixated as 9/11 Truthers. Your questions will get us nowhere and I’m certainly not going to forward them to Pastor Rick - especially since I made it clear that he is going to ask the same questions of both candidates.
And what’s with you “civilian defense force” people? Give me one reason why that has any relevance in this election where so much matters so profoundly?
I hoped you would think creatively, offering up something that would get to the soul of the candidates because where else does a pastor want to probe, but around a person’s soul? As Warren himself said:
I’m going to ask them questions about character, competence, about values, vision, virtue, about their convictions in leadership, about their experience. And I’m going to deal with their personal life – because character matters. Their personal life does matter as a leader. God says so.
When it comes down to it, there was only one good response out of the whole mess and not surprisingly it came from my old blogfriend, Naval aviator wife and Very Thoughtful Person, Anne the PalmTree Pundit. Anne kept it simple and kept it important, asking in just 6 words something that would show very profoundly the difference between the candidates: What is the role of government?
Thank you, Anne. I’ll pass your question on, along with mine:
Have you seen evidence of God’s active intervention into your life? If so, tell us about it, and tell us how you’d explain it to someone who doesn’t believe in God.
I believe the first part of this question would open a window onto the candidate’s soul, particularly in the area where humility and pride are spawned. The second part would let us measure the depth of the candidates’ convictions.
I don’t know what you’re planning on doing tomorrow afternoon, but I’d suggest you watch this. I sat in Rick Warren’s pews for many years and the man is profoundly intelligent and deeply sensitive. He is going to take these two interviews to places MSM reporters and national debate panelists will not dare to tread. It should be time very well spent.
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August 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Ack. I apologize for not submitting. A bit overcome by events this week. I did have a suggestion if it is not too late.Senator Obama, you have, in the past months, stated that we are no longer a Christian nation. Yet our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian morality and Enlightenment ideals articulated by John Locke. These ideals are clearly written into our founding documents. They also distinctly differ from the morality and ideals found in other religions. How do you envision our nation changing if we are no longer moored to Christianity and, in your world view, should we be a multicultural nation rather than a melting pot?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Laer — Also, if not too late I am wondering the following:
In light of the most recent Eastern European events, how will each candidate approach rallying those both in the US and in the Western democracies that insist on viewing the United States and Russian in terms of moral equivalence?