Posted on 05/06/2008 10:20:01 AM PDT by sinanju
In his recent incendiary remarks, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. claimed that criticism of his views is nothing less "an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition." Can it really be that millions of black Americans regularly choose to listen to viciously anti-white and anti-American rants on Sunday mornings?
Happily, Chicago's Trinity Church is an outlier in that regard. Most black churchgoers belong to congregations that are overwhelmingly African-American and are affiliated with one of the historically black religious denominations such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) or the National Baptist Convention. Rev. Wright's Trinity Church, on the other hand, is a predominantly black branch of a white denomination that is not part of "the African-American religious tradition." The United Church of Christ (known until 1957 as the Congregational Church) has a little over a million members; a mere 4 percent of them are black. Fewer than 50,000 blacks in the entire nation worship at a UCC church.
In contrast, 98 percent of the National Baptist Convention's 4 million members are African Americans. Add in black Methodists and Pentecostals, as well as other black Baptists, and the total comes to more than 14 million members of an organized, predominantly African-American church. These churches include a substantial majority of all black adults today. In terms of sheer demographic weight, they clearly represent the "African-American religious tradition"-as Rev. Wright's branch of a overwhelmingly white denomination does not...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Unfortunately the right-on reverend has annointed himself Pope of Black America and (not wanting to disagree in front of Whitey... "dirty laundry" and all that) no black religious authority is standing up to dispute him and the usual crowd is reflexively circling the wagons around him.
The UCC is leftist political organization masquerading as a church.
A score-card for posters/lurkers:
1.
United Church of Christ: the liberal church body that Obama is affiliated with.
2. (mainstream) Churches of Christ: a fairly conservative church group
found mostly below the Mason-Dixon Line. Each congregation is autonomous.
Affiliated institutions include: Abiline Christian University,
David Lipscomb University, Lubbock Christian University, Pepperdine U.
3. International Church of Christ (ICC): a group that splintered off
from the mainstream Churches of Christ (in the 1970s?).
The group has been described as a cult in the media due to the fairly
harsh “discipling” and recruitment practices. A few years ago there
was talk that the leadership of the ICC was softening and might try
to re-affiliate with the mainstream Churches of Christ again.
Help: Is the UCC the same as Unitarian?
The Unitarians in my town use the UCC church or at least the old UCC church..
We had a UCC group set up a teen group home across the street from our house a couple of years ago. They were basically warehousing teenage girls and collecting about $250 per girl per night from the state. The staff was rude and destructive (one of them backed into my wife’s car and wouldn’t own up to it), and every time we had a problem with them, they would try to throw scripture in our faces. Fortunately, my wife knows Scripture better than they did, and would not tolerate any of their hypocrisy. We finally got rid of them after we were able to list enough offenses to warrant an inspection by Human Services. They failed on so many counts they eventually had to shut down because there was no way they could come into compliance without actually spending the money that they were collecting for storing the girls there.
No it’s not the same as Unitarian.
Are any of these associated with the Disciples of Christ founded by Alexander Campbell?
I was raised in the Congregational Church, which merged with the Evangelical and Reformed Church in the late 50’s. I served as a deacon for years. One thing is for certain, the UCC is very “left wing” and somewhat militant in it’s agenda. My congregation was 99.99 per cent white, but the liberal under-current was obvious. I recall a movement within the UCC to eliminate “Our Father” from the Lord’s Prayer, to appease the lesbian community within the UCC. The Congregational church has a rich and glorious heritage in the founding of our nation. I was at the point where I was going to suggest our church withdraw from the UCC. I’ve since left the church continuing to be a “main stream” Protestant.
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