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Bruce Wilson: Follow Jesus Like Nazis Followed Hitler, Rick Warren Tells Stadium Crowd
Bruce Wilson: Follow Jesus Like Nazis Followed Hitler, Rick Warren Tells Stadium Crowd
On April 17, 2005, at the southern California Anaheim Angels sports stadium thirty thousand Saddleback Church members, more than ever gathered in one spot, assembled to celebrate Saddleback's 25th anniversary and listened as Rick Warren announced his vision for the next 25 years of the ...
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Obama, This is UNACCEPTABLE: Rick Warren Invokes Hitler Youth
Firedoglake — ... In Bruce Wilson's video, on April 17, 2005 Rick Warren tells 30,000 of his followers at a rally in Angel Stadium, right next to  Disneyland,  that he had been given a vision, a three point plan for the next 25 years: ...

Hullabaloo — ... Bruce Wilson has written an incredible expose of the man the Religious Injdustrial Complex is asking us to accept as a decent and moral voice of healing, (despite a few mild differences between us on icky issues nobody wants to talk about anyway.) It turns out that his activities in Africa are a trifle less impressive than advertised once you look into them. In fact, they're downright horrifying. ...

‘Ein Volk, eine Evangelische Kirche, ein Prediger’
SteveAudioHuffington Post: "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. ... When I hear those kinds of stories, I think 'what would happen if American Christians, if world ...

Rick Warren: Follow Jesus Like Nazis Followed Hitler
Shakesville — ... , he also believes that Christians should follow Jesus like people followed Hitler, Lenin, and Mao, doing "whatever it takes" to "cover the planet" with Christianity to bring the Rapture: ...

Hitler, Lenin and Mao
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Rick Warren speaks of his mentors in trying to take over the world for Jesus. He also decries the notion of moderation in religion or politics. Those who believe that Warren is interested in truth rather than power need to get to know his writing and speaking and record more thoroughly. ...

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