President to Catholic Press: On Church Attendance

ncr ^ | July 3, 2009 | Tim Drake

[NYer]

In response to a question from The Washington Post regarding finding a home church, President Obama had this to say:

“Michelle and I decided that we would wait a few months after arriving before we made a decision on this, partly — let’s be blunt: I mean, we were pretty affected by what happened at Trinity and the controversy surrounding Reverend Wright,” said the president. “That was deeply disturbing to us, and it was disappointing for us personally. It made us very sensitive to the fact that as president the church we attend can end up being interpreted as speaking for us at all times. We were also mindful of the fact that the times that we have attended church here, everybody who attends has to go through a mag — and it’s a scene. I mean, it’s just — unfortunately, I am now very disruptive wherever I go. And so thinking about how to just manage the logistics of that was something that we spent some time talking about.”

“We have attended services at Camp David every weekend that we’re there. I will tell you, by the way, that it is a wonderful little congregation; the members of Camp David who are up there consistently have their families there; they’ve got a Sunday school. The young chaplain there, Chaplain Cash, is terrific — as good of a — delivers as powerful a sermon as I’ve heard in a while. I really think he’s excellent. So we will continue to go to services there.”

He continued, “How we handle church when we’re here in D.C. is something that we’re still figuring out. And I think that in the second half of the year we will have made a decision. We may choose, rather than to join just one church, to rotate and attend a number of different churches.”

The president added that he’s looking into inviting in a broad collection of pastors from various denominations to the White House to come pray with the first family. He also described that he receives spiritual sustenance from a devotional that a colleague sends to his BlackBerry every morning. That practice, which started during the campaign, has continued.

[NYer]

Ping!

[constitutiongirl]

Appearantly, the teleprompter was not working. I notice that he was disturbed by the dust-up over Jeremiah Wright but couldn't manage to be disturbed listening to all of that Marxist, racist swill for 20 years.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Translation: Since he cannot go to an openly hate America and hate whitey church like Rev Wrights’ he isn’t going to attend any church.

[Salvation]

Church attendance??

When is Obama ever going to stop playing golf on Sunday and go to church with his family?

[ETL]

From Jeff Head's website...
One notable quote from [James] Cone describing his Black Liberation Theology is as follows:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love." - "Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology", in African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, by William R Jones, ed Cornel West and Eddie Glaube (Westminster John Knox Press).
http://www.jeffhead.com/blacklibtheology.htm

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/African-American-Religious-Thought-Anthology/dp/0664224598
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HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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For all you'll ever need or want to know about
Wright's "Black Liberation Theology",
see my FR Home page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

Hint...

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[Thank You Rush]

How can going to church be any more disruptive than supposedly last minute plans to visit a hamburger joint and an ice cream parlor? The jerk is a fake and hasn’t learned yet you can’t fool all the people all the time.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"It made us very sensitive to the fact that as president the church we attend can end up being interpreted as speaking for us at all times."

Doesn't the Church ALWAYS "speak for us"? Sounds like cafeteria Protestantism there - religion is there to pick and choose. Perhaps he means the congregation they attend. However, the suggestion of relativism in religion there may be significant. He only believed part of the message, that which fit his agenda and interests. In Chicago those were different than his political needs in Washington now. So Reverend Wackodoodle goes under the bus as they search for a denomination that fits his political needs, interests, and relativism. Maybe he should just become Episcopalian and then it won't matter anyway. He'll be free to make up his own theology and beliefs.