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Barbara Reynolds helped me to put that reality in perspective while at a specially-called meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Pastors Conference in July. We met in St. Kitts to look at a media strategy for getting the message of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference before the American public (and before the world). The media only covers the conservative fanatics when it comes to religion. The media does not find the principles of the true Christian faith newsworthy.
The faith handed down by Samuel DeWitt Proctor, the faith taught to me by Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Sr. and Dr. Mary Wright, the faith lived by Dr. Thomas Howard Henderson and the faith that teaches Africans to use their minds as Jesus said (“Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy mind”), that faith is not exciting. That faith does not make headlines. That faith does not bomb abortion clinics. That faith does not say that a vote against George Bush is a vote against God.
That faith does not say that gays are going to hell. That faith does not say that we are right and everybody who is not on our side is wrong. The Christian faith that was given to me (from my past, that I keep looking back over) is a faith that faces each new challenge with the understanding that there would have been no civil rights movement if it had been left up to Christian fanatics. Christian fanatics used the Bible to keep us in slavery. Christian fanatics used the Bible to justify segregation and apartheid!
Christian fanatics were against Martin Luther King, Jr. Christian fanatics thought Dr. King had overstepped his boundaries when he moved from preaching against the evils of racism to preaching against the evils of war! It is that faith, however, that I embrace with all of my heart because it is of God, whom Jesus told me to love with all of my heart!
Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, while speaking at Yale Divinity School in March of 2004, said something very important in terms of understanding the difference between the Christian faith and Christian fanatics. She said: “We need to remember that we were not attacked on September 11th by the Muslim world or by the Arab world. We were attacked by individuals belonging to a single terrorist group. Their crimes were not about religion because al-Qaeda is no more representative of Islam than the Ku Klux Klan is representative of Christianity!”
Conservative fanatics line up on the side of al-Qaeda or they line up behind George Bush. Both are terrorists! Both believe that war is the answer. Both believe in murdering innocent people.
George Bush lied to the public. George Bush lied to the Congress and as a result of his lies over 1800 Americans are dead and over 100,000 Iraqis are dead. The 1800 Americans who died are military. The 100,000 plus Iraqis who are dead were civilians. They were innocent people.