I find it typical when reading responses of bloggers... that they are either lazy and have done no research on the subject being discussed and just throw out a totally misinformed opinion or those who know the truth but choose to leave out critical facts and mislead others by design. To save time I'll provide a link at the end of this blog... from the church in Uganda who supports the legislation against homosexuality in their sovereign nation. They make several excellent points which Rick Warren has never responded to publicly. He could have easily made this letter public on his website and gone point by point over their letter... but instead he buried it and never made mention of it because they absolutely destroy his stance of toleration of homosexuality. They make one excellent point after another... and for him to try and refute what they are doing... he would look like a fool. So instead he continues to sing his loving song of understanding the plight of the misunderstood homosexual and the twisting of the truth by the gay world regarding the Ugandans attempts to stop the exploitation of young boys in Uganda and how identical laws protecting young girls were enacted and not a word of opposition was breathed... but the moment the protection of young boys from homosexuality was introduced... gay rights activist got in an uproar... hmmmm? Read the letter yourself and you'll see why Rick Warren never addressed the letter publicly... he couldn't... the Ugandans absolutely buried him and he had no choice but to continue to stick with the mainstream media which lines his pockets with huge sums of money by supporting his New York Times bestsellers. Here's the link... read it and learn the truth about Uganda's fight against the exploitation of children... http://www.martinssempa.com/warren-response.html

Jerry Falwell said in an interview before his death that he would vote for an athiest for President if it would protect America. Warren, who is supposedly milder and hipper than Falwell demonstrates, on one occasion after another, an obsessive hatred of atheists. He was already exposed as a liar when video surfaced of him encouraging his flock to vote for Prop 8 after he said he had done no such thing. Now he has ties to what could very well be a holocaust in Uganda and people still listen to this man. No wonder they call them "sheep".

@Aaron: There's nothing in the Bible that says Jesus would have been against the death penalty. And wouldn't that make Jesus against God? What some people take as a stand against execution is likely an apocryphal story about hypocrisy, not the death penalty.

Modern Christianity is extremely different from Judaism. But I think that says more about how religions evolve than where Christianity came from. According to the Bible, Christians worshipped in the Jewish Temple as Jews did until Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed. They followed the Jewish Law. That's pretty darn Jewish, if you ask me.