Rick Warren is a Christian liar

Good little Christian pastor Rick Warren was on Larry King on CNN, on April 6. Here’s a transcript. Please note his remarks a little over halfway down in the transcript:

I am not an anti-gay or anti-gay marriage activist. I never have been, never will be.

During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never — never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop 8 was going.

Then go watch this YouTube video of Rick Warren endorsing and supporting Prop Hate, and encouraging people to do the same:

As one of my online friends says, “Doesn’t it make baby Jesus cry when you lie, little Ricky?”

Be sure your sin will find you out, bucko.

(Many thanks to Tonya J for the heads-up on this.)

At least *some* of them behave like supposed Christians

My first thought when I heard about that Christian — Christian! — school basketball team that ran up the score to 100-0 against a team from a very small school helping people with disabilities, was, “Yep, those fundies. Milk of human kindness to the core.”

Since then, however, the school itself has issued a statement in which it says, “This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition. We humbly apologize for our actions and seek the forgiveness of Dallas Academy, TAPPS and our community.”

And in this article, near the bottom, it sounds like some of the parents were at least embarrassed and hope to see better outcomes in the future, though it doesn’t explicitly say they thought the team (encouraged by their now-fired coach) did the wrong thing.

This is all good, and hopefully will help make amends. But I’m afraid, after the fundies’ record of the last decade or two, I still have to wonder if they would have apologized or fired the coach or anything else, if this story hadn’t achieved the national and international notoriety it did.

Which should demonstrate to all fundie Christians that they’ve done an awful lot to induce that sort of automatic suspicion and scepticism in our minds. And maybe they need to do a lot more, to make amends to “the community,” than just fire a coach and issue an apology. A nation-wide housecleaning and a heckuva lot of repentance for the even more vicious deeds of the last 20 years would be just the ticket.