Robert Parham has been cookin’ lately. Here’s one on Rick Warren, the “Purpose-Drivel” (I mean “Driven”) guy.

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“For those of who accept the Bible as God’s Word … there are five issues that are non-negotiable,” wrote Warren, a Southern Baptist, to fellow pastors across the country. “To me, they’re not even debatable, because God’s Word is clear on these issues.”

Abortion, stem-cell harvesting, homosexual marriage, human cloning and euthanasia were non-negotiable issues about which Warren said the Bible was clear.

“There can be multiple opinions among Bible-believing Christians when it comes to debatable issues such as the economy, social programs, Social Security and the war in Iraq,” wrote Warren.

What was not clear from his column was how some issues become morally non-negotiable, not even debatable, and other issues become morally secondary, basically unimportant to how a Christian should vote.

Warren offered no evidence from the biblical witness to support his assertions. He simply spoke ex cathedra for God’s Word, assuming that the few passages related to abortion and homosexuality were well-known. Nor did he bother to explain how he came up with a list that ignores the teachings of Jesus, the Hebrew prophets and the Mosaic code.

“There can be multiple opinions” on matters such as ther war in Iraq, since of course, that’s obviously not as destructive an evil as homeosexuality. Bull. Anti-Christ propaganda. Opiate of the nationalistic audience. Betrayal of the PURPOSE of the gospel.