The Engle-Warren Connection
Every public luminary has a mentor, so it is interesting to note that Lou Engle's mentor and Rick Warren's doctoral dissertation advisor are one and the same: C. Peter Wagner, founder of New Apostolic Reformation which holds as one of its immutable dictums that homosexuality is a sin. It is also notable that Rick Warren openly lied about his association with Wagner. Wagner, along with Engle, have both been credited with assisting Uganda in structuring the "Kill the Gays" bill.
The Demonizer never sites a Biblical scholar. That's no surprise, since scholarship of the Bible encourages people to think about all of its contradictions and historical/anthropological inconsistencies. A following of questioning minds tends to be not much of a following. Inerrantists need total control of their flock. And total control can only be achieved by convincing an uneducated group that every word is absolutely true. And supreme.
Engle skirts scholarship by telling people that he is a prophet. Or moreover, Engle trumps scholarship by relating his "visions" and dreams which, of course, have been sent to him directly by God. What Engle has experienced, scholars can only make "educated" guesses at.
The quick and easy denunciation of progressive Christians is that they are false prophets:
"When men leading this nation as Christian leaders speak of gay Christians, they are actually false prophets! There are Christians struggling with same-sex desires, but those who are gay Christians, who say, "This is my lifestyle, and God is pleased with it!", this is false prophets! I'd like to just shout it in the news, but they'll vilify me."
People For The American Way
has a "hit parade" list of Lou Engle's rants. Not all of them can be
viewed because most have been removed. While The Demonizer's public
demeanor is horrendous enough, it is noticeably softer than his smaller
gatherings. Evan Hurst's TWO post (and tape) should be examined closely.
On the latest SCOTUS ruling that Christian groups must allow gay membership:
"This is the first time in U.S. history where the Supreme Court has actually ruled that gender rights now trump religious rights, which means this is the beginning of the possible coming harassment and persecution of the church because it's going to be clear that the true church will take a stand only on the Word of God,"
The Demonizer
echoes the likes of Tony Perkins and Pat Robertson with the subject of
"Christian Persecution" while mangling the English Language
("...beginning of the possible coming?")
Lou "The Demonizer" Engle calls for martyrs to his cause. But while some of his martyrs will be "persecuted" for singing hymns in the Castro, some others may go down with guns blazing. Just the way Engle wants it. And if some of his followers question Engle, asking if there are some good gays worth saving from imprisonment and death, his response might be similar to that of Arnaud Amaury, abbot of Citeaux and military leader besieging the town of Beziers, France and before the massacre of its ten thousand inhabitants:
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