Does anyone have a problem with Rick Warren’s use of the Our father yesterday. I’m hearing this from a lot of people and wanted to let people have a voice to understand why they think this is insensitive.
Interestingly enough it looks like he used some portions of the the Shema or Sh’ma too.
“The Scripture tells us, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is One.” And you are the compassionate and merciful one. And you are loving to everyone you have made.”
The first half of that paragraph—Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is One—is the Shema, the most important prayer in Judaism. Many Jews recited it on the way to their deaths during the Holocaust.