(OPINION) Todd Starnes – Well, it won’t be long until the creator of VeggieTales will have to apologize and destroy his entire life’s work because it culturally appropriated vegetables.
(I’ll explain that a bit later in this column) So goes the modern-day woke and politically correct church where everything that could cause offense will cause offense. And that brings me to an item from Saddleback Church, the mega-church based in Southern California.
Four years ago a pastor in the children’s ministry dressed up as an Asian martial arts sensei in an attempt to teach a Bible truth, Pastor Rick Warren said in a lengthy Facebook post. Religion News Service described the video as a form of slap-stick with the pastor wearing a “Chinese shirt” and making Kung Fu sounds.
At one point in the video, the pastor pretended to make sushi that he later spits out. On Sunday, Pastor Warren wrote that the video contained “racially offensive content.” Was it the shirt? Was it the Kung Fu sound effects? Bad sushi? Who knows? “The moment I saw a screenshot of it, I was upset and embarrassed,” Pastor Warren wrote on Facebook. “It was immediately taken down.” READ MORE
