interesting thoughts on the Saddleback Obama-McCain event
David Waters thinks the questions asked by Rick Warren could have used some improvement, so he came up with some interesting suggestions.
Some examples:
1. Warren asked: “Does evil exist, and if it does, do we ignore it, do we negotiate with it, do we contain it or do we defeat it.?”
This is a first-grade multiple-choice question. No candidate in his right (or left) mind would say anything other than “Yes, and we defeat it.” For the church, the question isn’t whether we confront or defeat evil but how.
A better question: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Christian pastor, said ‘The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.’ Do you agree? As Christians, how should we confront violent evil such as terrorism?”
2. Warren asked: “The Civil Rights Act of ‘64 says that faith-based organizations have the right to hire people that believe like they do. Would you insist that faith-based organizations forfeit that right to access federal funds?”
Like the abortion and gay marriage questions Warren asked, this is a litmus-test question for conservative evangelicals who want the right to hire people whose beliefs fit their missions and worldviews.
A better question: “As Christians, we are called to help orphans, widows, the sick, the poor and others in need. Should we ask or expect the government to pay us to do what God calls us to do?”
I like these questions too.. I could see intelligent Christians on either side of the answers.
