Posted on 03/31/2008 3:08:53 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
Panelists discuss shock over Wright's comments at Black Church Summit In panel discussion, black churches not immune to criticism
By LORI STAHL / The Dallas Morning News lstahl@dallasnews.com
If television sound bites of Barack Obama's former pastor shocked mainstream audiences, perhaps it means that other black churches have strayed too far from raising similar social justice issues in their sermons, panelists at a church summit said Saturday.
"Part of the reason the public is so shocked ... is that they have not heard the public voice of the liberated black church in a very long time," said the Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. "In a very real sense, it's an indictment of us.
"The prosperity preachers would suggest to you that they are the natural heirs of the civil rights movement. They're wrong about that," said Dr. Warnock. He decried the proliferation of megachurches whose leaders focus on congregants' economic enrichment.
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The comments came on the second day of the fourth annual Black Church Summit, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright originally was scheduled to be this year's honoree.
The event, which was sponsored by the Black Church Studies program of Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, was moved to Dallas after Dr. Wright's comments caused a political furor on the presidential campaign trail.
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Well, it is. But not perhaps the way he means it.
When the writer got to “liberated” it struck me that a better word selection would have been “unhinged”, not “liberated”.
Hey, Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas:
What we the “public” do understand is that we (all the sane ones among us) despise racist assholes no matter what the color of their skin.
You clowns want to carve out a special exception for “black liberation” preachers who are allowed to be flaming racists. No, sorry, for all decent and sane members of the public (all who are not rabid Demagogues) racism is contemptible no matter who utters the words.
Social gospel is not preaching Christianity and tends to destruction of the church.
The “black church” was liberated 145 years ago with the blood of 400,000 US Army soldiers. Not that any of these “Liberation Theology” types care.
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