My mom likes Rick Warren.

[lightningandsnow]

Apparently, the things he says resonate with her? What?

She's not a homophobe per se (although she is incredibly sex-negative), but always seems overly fond of people who are. For their "good moral values" or something.

[Chan790]

1. Does she know he's an enabler of anti-semitism?

From John Aravosis at Americablog: http://www.americablog.com/2008/12/rick-warren-praised-israel-hating.html

The real outrage against Rick Warren is his enabling of the patron-saint-state of terrorism, Syria.

Warren gleefully visited Syria with his wife and paid homage to the Bashar Assads. And he had the gall to praise Syria as a "moderate" country. He had nothing negative to say in the least about this family that has wreaked havoc on Lebanon, worked in concert with Hezbollah and Iran, used his state as a shelter for every Islamic terrorist group imaginable, Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, Jamil...

More:

Warren, author of "The Purpose-Driven Life," says when he visited Syria recently he saw Christians and Jews in a near-routine existence, enjoying some privileges even Muslims don't receive within a governmental structure that formally allows for faith in Christ and adherence to the Torah.

[lightningandsnow]

2. Holy crap.

Yeah, my family are pretty Zionist...she's not going to like that.

[LynneSin]

3. If her mom is anything like my mom - she read the book and that's about it

My mom was raised in the country in rural PA so some things don't make sense to her but she has always had an attitude of live and let live when it comes to who people are.

My whole family read the book and they're hardly the uber christian type. They go to church each week and say prayers at meals and read that stupid book (I got thru 3 pages of it - it was tripe - Like Thomas Kinkade art for the literary world). They have friends of all types and have no problem with any of them as long as it's 'consenting adults'

[DarkTirade]

4. Any time someone tries to relate religion to 'good moral values'

it makes me want to smack them.

I think that's just a learned reflex from living in the southern half of the US though.