“The mega-church pastor of the Saddleback Church, Rick Warren, took to Twitter on Friday to express his thought about the recent shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater,” wrote atheist Staks Rosch of The Examiner (also the coordinator of PhillyCoR, Philadelphia Coalition of Reason). “Warren blamed the shooting on the teaching of evolution in public science classes.”
Following the publication of the tweet and the subsequent outrage, Warren deleted it — creating even more controversy. This, of course, led Rosch to post another article entitled, “Rick Warren Deletes Tweet Blaming Shooting on Evolution.” In this subsequent piece, Rosch continued airing his views on the matter:
This was obviously in reference to the recent mass-shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater. This Examiner reported on the story with a screen capture of Pastor Warren’s Tweet. Just two days after the Tweet was made it was deleted presumably by Warren
