Posted on 03/19/2008 8:37:18 AM PDT by Alouette
“I said that dirty word again, Israel.” This was one of the many disparaging remarks Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright made about Israel. According to Wright, Israel is occupying Arab land and has no right to its existence. He eliminates the legitimacy of the Jewish state of Israel in one speech; then he compounds the injury by usurping the Jewish historical ties to the land.
In Barack Obama’s apologia for Reverend Wright on March 18, the senator recounted his first service at Trinity church.
“People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend’s voice up into the rafters….And in that single note – hope!...I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion’s den, Ezekiel’s field of dry bones. Those stories – of survival, and freedom, and hope – became our story, my story; the blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world...Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black; in chronicling our journey, the stories and songs gave us a means to reclaim memories that we didn’t need to feel shame about…memories."
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Poor Reverend Wright is blinded by hate. He needs to get to know Jesus and His love. Maybe he is reading the wrong Bible.
What’s up with Wright’s anti-white bigotry? He himself has enough white ancestry to be considered “white” if he chose to do so.
“Christians in the lions’ den”? Daniel wasn’t a Christian, and Androcles wasn’t in a den. Maybe he meant in an arena and because it was filled with lions it became a den, or maybe it was just more linguistic license & nonsense. I especially liked the zoigma in a paragraph about halfway through The Speech:
“For the African-American community, that path [to reconciliation with whites] means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of american life. But it also means binding our particular grievances—for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs—to the larger aspirations of all Americans—THE WHITE WOMAN STRUGGLING TO BREAK THE GLASS CEILING, the white man whose [sic] been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family.”
Equally compelling goals, no? Rather like comparing his loving grandma to his hating pastor. The poor man has no sense atall-atall of proportion, priority, or propriety.
Israel is our ally right?
No! No! No!
G*D D*M Israel! — Rev. Wright (sarcasm)
Why are we surprised that to discover that Obama isn't biblically literate enough to know that Daniel was a Jew from the Old Testament? After all, if the pastor actually based his sermons on the Bible he wouldn't be in the news now.
I suppose “reverend” (and I use that term loosely) Wright doesn’t know that many Israelis from Middle Eastern countries have darker skin tones than he does, to say nothing of the Ethiopian Jews. But given the sewer-stuff he spews, he’d find a way to discount or ignore that fact. He’s just another no-count radical that hates the USA, the West and Israel and thinks that folks like Qaddafi, Amad-nut-job and Mugabe are just peachy-keen dandy.
“Reverend” Wright is no different from “aryan” type “pastors” other than the particular group that should be “supreme.”
Ain’t that the truth!
“To read the TaNa”KH and see Jews instead of oneself requires a peculiar form of literalism...”
Liberal churches of all stripes see their messiah as either Bjorn Borg or Harry Belafonte.
Yeshua Is Jewish.
Bjorn Borg?
Never would have seen that one coming!
It worked for Hitler.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/familylemba.html
“I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion’s den, Ezekiel’s field of dry bones.”
The problem with these black churches is exactly what Ophama noted above, he imagines along with other black liberation theology types what the Bible never states. They practice a form of replacement theology where the descendents of Ham replace the descendents of Abraham as the children of promise. Ishmael (who was Hamitic as Hagar was an Egyptian) become the children through whom the Abrahamic Covenant would be fulfilled. This is an Islamic concept and you see it come through Farrakhan’s teaching about how advanced the Egyptians were even to the point of being able to fly and represent the greatness and essence of black civilization. In truth the Egyptians had one of the most bizarre cosmologies and religious systems ever known which the plagues were specifically directed against. It’s difficult to imagine a church holding to a more unbiblical view than what Wright preaches.
Composer Richard Wagner was proven to have Jewish blood--and was a rabid anti-Semite. So Wright may in fact despise his white blood, and is spewing such anti-white vitriol in order to cleanse himself of what he sees as the stain of being white.
I agree. You want to say to these people, excuse me, have you ever read the Bible. The Apostle Paul says, “You seem to believe whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach about a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different spirit than the one you receive, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.”
It’s clear they are not talking about the Jesus of the Bible. Charles Spurgeon said when people are left to their own wisdom, it comes from the shallow brain of a poor son of Adam.
It seems we have some “shallow brains” around posing as wise guys!
Dude, will you pull-eeze try and develop a better ear for PC Speech?
It's NOT Black Power Christianity OK? My NPR newsette informs me it's
It has deep Biblical ROOTS. It's the accumulated wisdom of black men like Martin Luther, St. Francis of Assisi, Jesus of Nazareth, Moses, and all the great black African prophets going back to the time of Abraham, who was also black.
It is painfully obvious that when Moses, a black man, begged the pharaoh (another black dude, apparently) to "set his people free" he did not mean the Jews or descendants of wild barbaric European tribes. Non capisci?
The black Hebrew Israelite sects also incorporate Jesus and the New Testament into their black supremacist beliefs.
Well, you do raise an interesting point. Black Liberation Theology is based at least in part on Liberation Theology, a Catholic heresy that tried to combine Christian compassion for the poor and oppressed with Marxist resentment. It was most successful in South America, but except in the minds of some aging hippie priests and mainline idiots, it’s now pretty well dead.
So, black liberation theology ripped off some of the marxist ideas of liberation theology.
But there seems to be a special twist here in Rev. Wright’s theology. I think it’s his friendship, maybe alliance, with the black muslims. I think we’re talking about a strong component of Islam here, and not just Marxism.
I’m not sure if you’ve seen it, but someone called up Wright’s office and indicated he was a Muslim who wanted to join. He was told, fine, Muslims are welcome, and nobody needs to get baptized to be a member. In fact, that leaves plenty of room for Obama still to be a Muslim, and that’s just fine with Rev. Wright. They just wouldn’t talk about it in public, because having he color of a Christian church is useful, even to some of their members.
So True! God bless.
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