Posted on 05/10/2008 11:48:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We, the Sixth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, representing more than 80,000 members and clergy in Georgia, express support for our clergy colleague, the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. Rev. Wright is a renowned religious scholar, nurturing pastor and outstanding preacher. Our friend and fellow minister has been vilified in the national media for practicing the great commission to go ye preach and baptize in my name.
We repudiate the irresponsible and shameful behavior of the national media for replaying and sensationalizing Rev. Wright’s words out of context simply to accommodate a salacious sound byte. Quite frankly African Americans articulate and use language differently than whites by juxtaposing words to paint indelible psychological pictures. For example, in the overplayed sound byte Rev. Wright was not cursing America or its people. Rather he was pointing out historical and modern day incidents of racial intolerance or violence that were both heinous and damnable.
The charges of racism against Rev. Wright are false, as it is doubtful that the United Church of Christ, a white denomination, would have appointed him to pastor one of its churches. For African American clergy, controversy is to be expected as we preach a liberation theology that condemns any effort to persecute human beings.
We applaud the Democratic Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, for his strength of character and integrity in refusing to denigrate Pastor Wright. We laud the Senator’s unflinching honesty as well as his leadership and great courage in illuminating the real and painful truth of race in America. Senator Obama boldly placed the issue of race squarely on the table for further discussion and as an impetus to accomplish the kind of change that he has espoused throughout the Democratic presidential campaign.
William P. DeVeaux
Presiding Bishop
Sixth Episcopal District
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
More interested in protecting one of their own rather than coming to terms with what he said.
This isn’t about “reason”. They have no problem with his “America deserved 9/11” comments.
Sorta like sitting in that pew for 20 years or so .......
Here’s another black minister’s answer to Reverend Wright:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=col8nBwHs3Y
No doubt because they're right-brained and can't learn the same way as left-brained white people. /sarc
Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yay.
I’m afraid my psychology has been indelibly juxtaposed by his languaging articulations.
Can I get government aid for that?
Wow, more than 80,000 members. A much bigger problem than I had originally thought.
And that's just one denomination in a single state (Georgia).
This appears to be the natural evolution of the victimology
prescibed to the Black poulation.
There is no assimilation into the mainstream.
Are we going back to “seperate but equal” proposition?
They are not Americans.
I am not quite sure what they are, but they do not favor American success in the slightest. Some of us have observed Obama's thinly veiled threats of a "quiet riot" of coming violence from these people.
Subsequently, many Americans fear that they will commit violence if Obama loses in August or November. Only time will tell.
Why must I chase the cat, nuthin but the dog in me...
Presiding Bishop
Sixth Episcopal District
The African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Up yours.
Love Whitey.
He better win this time. Because before too long African Americans, with lots of help from their liberal friends will find themselves moving from 2nd to 3rd place in our society behind the Hispanics. The power struggle going in LA is only a taste of what’s coming.
if only Booth hadn’t shot Mr. Lincoln
I am so glad they let us know they support this racist idiot. it lets me know who stands with us and who does not. he and Louie can josh all they want about mad scientists making white people to enslave them. I will just remember the racism.
>>Quite frankly African Americans articulate and use language differently than whites by juxtaposing words to paint indelible psychological pictures.
So he’s saying that sermons by these preachers are the equivalent of using heavy psychopharmacological substances? Like a bad acid trip?
Maybe we can get the DEA involved. . .
As a Christian I am offended by this out and out lie. He was not vilified for practicing the Great Commission, he was vilified for the distinct lack there of. I rebuke you Bishop and Wright as called for by the true Great Commission.
I rebuke you for spreading lies and telling tall tales,
I rebuke you for teaching victimology where no victimhood truly exists,
I rebuke your divisiveness of the American community,
and lastly I rebuke you for failing to teach your followers how to fish for their own livelihoods and to be fishermen of men's souls to God.
Thanks for that link....excellent!
He’s loathesome, just another Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. Snake oil salesmen preaching hate, bigotry, and worse. Living in a million dollar mansion paid for by his congregation, many of whom are single mothers who work two and three jobs and raise children and grandchildren without benefit of a father in the home. There’s so much wrong with Wright, so much wrong with Obama, and this upcoming election is dead serious. Obama is the emperor with no clothes, already ‘offended’ at anything McCain says. (These next few months are going to be a rough ride, so tighten your seat belts.)
Bingo.
Double bingo!
progressed very little on race in the last few decades after all?
Just keep talking....
OK, Mr. Preacher... give us the context that any of those soundbites could be put in to make it more acceptable to people like us Freepers.
“...religious scholar...” ?
“if only Booth hadn’t shot Mr. Lincoln”
If only Booth hadn’t waited so long to shot Mr. Lincoln.
There. Fixed it for ya. ;)
The UCC doesn't appoint pastors, and anyone who was formed in it and knows it as well as I do will have NO DOUBT that IF they appointed them, Jeremiah Wright would have been their #1 choice.
Bullsh*t, preacher. A lie is a lie is a lie. Stick that in your matchbook-cover divinity degree and smoke it.
(a) Christian Churches often get into controversy. Regardless of the race of the pastor.
(b) We do not tolerate lies in our sermons.
(c) Hate is not part of Christianity.
(d) Racism is not Christian, either.
(d)What I have heard from Wright and other liberation theology teachings promotes the antithesis of liberation. It promotes a victim mentality, which leads to enslavement.
In this case, that "name" is a false image conjured up by this sick bastard.
So Bill Clinton WAS the first black president !!!!
It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
I never had sex with that woman, Monica Lewinski.
I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy."
The only people who will pay more income taxes are the wealthiest 2 percent, those living in households making over $200,000 a year."
My administration put 100,000 extra community police officers on the streets."
In addition to celebrating Trinity UCC's varied ministries, the resolution also recognizes that "churches may be on different paths on our journey with the Still Speaking God."
"We stand in solidarity with and support of the local congregations of the United Church of Christ as they live out their charge to be prophetic witnesses to church, community and society," it reads.
P.S. Comments to the United Church of Christ are accepted at the link in post #35.
Just read the current issue of NATIONAL REVIEW to learn some amazing facts about Wright and black liberation theory. The issue dated May 19, article by Stanley Kurtz.
bump
Hellllooooo! (Alternate) Bishop William P. DeVeaux (et al. . .) are you there, here or otherwise?
(This should carry a 'barf alert' over an LOL. . .)
I guess you never heard about Mr. Lincoln’s post war intentions
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