This Is Why Rick Warren Matters
Sarah Posner ponders why Rick Warren gets to hold a big, nationally telvised presidential forum:
The problem with that is why Warren, and not a rabbi? Why Warren and not a non-evangelical? Why didn’t Warren invite an interfaith panel of religious leaders to pose questions? Why did he get to decide what all the important questions were? The fact that the candidates agreed to the forum on Warren’s terms shows they’ve acquiesced to his status and how his event could, as Warren’s own post-forum press release put it, “change the face of American politics.”
Number of Evangelicals in the US: Estimates vary, but the high end says 100 million
Number of Jews: Somewhere Around 6 Million.
Number of Weeks on the Best Sellers List for The Purpose Driven Life: 174
