Warren says,” the Bible says governments are to do away with evildoers.” (paraphraseing)He doesn’t mention when the Bible was written the governments were the “evildoers!”
December 18th, 2008 at 11:57 am

Corruption in government, and the resulting lack of justice, is a constant theme in the Bible, especially the Old Testament where every Jewish government – often called authorities – seems to be flawed.

These are probably the New Testament verses to which Warren alludes:

Romans13

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.(RSV)

These verses are not about justifying war, corporate influences on government, or insuring justice. They are about keeping good order in a society – a police function. These verses were written by the rascally Apostle Paul, a Roman citizen and Jew who was a well schooled Pharisee.

The phrase “…bear the sword…” is commonly used among present day Conservative Christians to mean the power that government wields. Among CCs the desire is that the one who bears the sword be honorable and just.

The fact is that early in the primaries Obama said that he would be continuing and supporting Bush’s faith based initiatives. He whent and kowtowed before AIPAC, as all American presidents must. He even stated his opposition to same sex marriage.

He also said that he does not intend on prosecuting members of the current administration for crimes committed during their appointments.

The only change that is apparent is that he appears to be a politician who is doing what he said he would.

Obama may have to learn the hard way that the conservatives sees Democrats as enemies.

http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/12/liar-rick-warren-to-deliver-invocation.html

From Salon…

The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, run by the House and Senate, put together the program for the swearing-in ceremony. Congress, not Obama, invited Warren

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

This is the link to the inaugural committee. The Chairman is Diane Feinstein.

http://inaugural.senate.gov/cmte/

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/StopRickWarrensHateNOW