Posted on 07/20/2013 5:14:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Even before the jury read their verdict acquitting George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a number of black religious leaders had responses at the ready.
The voices of white pastors and predominantly white churches and religious groups? Much harder to find.
Nearly a week later, some denominations that often weigh in on matters of national policy have yet to go on the public record. It's particularly notable in the leadership of the Catholic Church, the country's largest religious body.
Admittedly, the flood of responses from black religious leaders was a partly a function of where the TV cameras were pointed.
Familiar figures such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson hit Twitter moments after the verdict was released.
Less familiar figures, such as Pastor Michael McBride, head of the PICO Lifelines to Healing Campaign, immediately issued a call for peaceful demonstrations. McBride had also prepared a tool kit for "Hoodie Sundays" in honor of Martin before Saturday night's verdict.
The Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at the famed Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, preached a sermon about Martin's death on Sunday.
Others took longer to react.....
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
The only issue in the “white” or inclusive churches is the Christian morality of self defense what with “turn the other cheek.” For the black churches the issue is supposed by the anti religious Left to be tribal rather than Christian or Biblical. In the tribal view, a black man was killed by a white man, circumstances are not relevant, and Vengeance is required. Liberals view black peole and to a lesser extent Spanish speaking people as necessarily tribal and thus needing the protection of the messianic Left to get along in a non tribal world.
The Southern Baptist group is not allowed to speak up on the most controversial issue of the present time?
In fact, the Convention has already spoken up. It criticized the verdict of the Zimmerman trial. It spoke up and it was wrong. They are cowards.
What church is it, again, that meets with your approval regarding this matter?
It’s honestly beginning to appear to me as if you’re merely seeking to disparage the single most politically conservative religious body in this country, for some odd reason.
What is your level of approval upon, oh I don’t know, the Roman Catholic Church as far as this is concerned, lol?
BINGO!
Thinking that “the entire Southern Baptist group” was somehow forbidden from on high was a bit of a giveaway, wasn’t it.
When something occurs that defies logic, like the gov’t’s pushing of this case, you have to wonder what agenda is pushing the non-logical actions.
Ask me if I care......
I'd say a little tit for tat constitutes "social justice."
How ironic. After years of being told to stay out of politics under the threat of having your tax exempt status pulled, now they’re being criticized for......
Staying out of a secular mess.
People need to remember *Innocent until proved guilty*, and let it go.
My church is stone and wood tone, hardly “white”. :p
If the Church I belong to says anything critical about the court case, I will walk out and never return,
I have had it with these vicious angry black racists.
Pfleger is a “Catholic priest” the same way Fred Phelps is a “Baptist minister”
Maybe they’re praying for the 23 seventeen year-old black kids shot by black murderers in the period between TM’s death and the acquittal.
In Chicago alone.
I don't care about your sensibilities. This is your LEADERSHIP and they are traitors to America. What are you going to do about it? CHANGE them!
If you knew anything at all about Southern Baptist churches, with their democratic governance of individual congregations and their notorious tendency to split, it would never occur to you to capitalize “leadership.”
The White churches don’t want to come under Federal attack for speaking Truth...
Most all other churches are worse on the Trayvon issue — and should be condemned for that. But now we’ve lost our stalwart — the Southern Baptist Convention — the last bastion of conservatism.
Nothing “odd” about my comments at all. When a church group errs, it should be called out.
Are all the churches supposed to join the anti-Zimmerman lynch mob? Are “Hoodie Sundays” mandatory?
You’re so glad I just made a cup of coffee, and it’s still too hot to drink, else you’d owe me a keyboard. That’s LOL funny right there.
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