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Reverend Wright: The Bible and No Jews
American Thinker ^ | Mar. 19, 2008 | Peggy Shapiro

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apologia; ihaveanexcuse; ihaveanexcusespeech; israel; jeremiahwright; jews; nobama; obama; wright
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To: MrB

Poor Reverend Wright is blinded by hate. He needs to get to know Jesus and His love. Maybe he is reading the wrong Bible.


41 posted on 03/19/2008 9:52:44 AM PDT by ezcritter
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To: montag813

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.


42 posted on 03/19/2008 9:53:38 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Alouette

“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.


43 posted on 03/19/2008 9:58:10 AM PDT by Mach9 (.)
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To: Alouette

Israel is our ally right?

No! No! No!

G*D D*M Israel! — Rev. Wright (sarcasm)


44 posted on 03/19/2008 10:01:52 AM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: Alouette
re: Christians in the lion’s den

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.

45 posted on 03/19/2008 10:09:01 AM PDT by Nevadan (nevadan)
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To: MrB; Alouette

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.”


46 posted on 03/19/2008 10:15:14 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Changing things in Washington is not unlike changing a baby’s diaper. It gets dirty again.)
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To: Alouette

Ain’t that the truth!


47 posted on 03/19/2008 10:18:21 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Changing things in Washington is not unlike changing a baby’s diaper. It gets dirty again.)
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To: MrB
Yes, many Leftists are anti-semites. There are many reasons for it. Consider Karl Marx, a descendant of Jews, and yet a rabid anti-semite, who was the ideological father of most Leftists; his thoughts contributed to the hatred of Jews. Israel is also an ally of the US and a democratic country, all of which are good reasons for the Left to hate Israel and to be anti-semetic since the Left has also embraced the PLO as a progressive cause.
48 posted on 03/19/2008 10:19:33 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Obama more Left than Teddy. The perfect combination of earnest and absurdly empty pol.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

“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.


49 posted on 03/19/2008 10:21:17 AM PDT by Mrs.Z ("...you're a Democrat. You're expected to complain and offer no solutions." Denny Crane)
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To: Mrs.Z
Liberal churches of all stripes see their messiah as either Bjorn Borg or Harry Belafonte.

Bjorn Borg?

Never would have seen that one coming!

50 posted on 03/19/2008 10:23:58 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Velo' `amad 'echad lifneyhem! / Velo' `amad 'echad bifneyhem!)
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To: hsalaw
Obama and Wright’s version of “hope” is based on tearing down and hating others. That’s not hope; that’s bigotry.

It worked for Hitler.

51 posted on 03/19/2008 10:24:22 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (WELL I SPEAK LOUD, AND I CARRY A BIGGER STICK, AND I USE IT TOO!)
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To: justiceseeker93
Many people are unaware of the Lemba, the black Jews of South Africa. Science has proven they're true descendants of early Israelis. It sounds kooky, but it's true.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/familylemba.html

52 posted on 03/19/2008 10:26:14 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Obama more Left than Teddy. The perfect combination of earnest and absurdly empty pol.)
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To: Alouette

“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.


53 posted on 03/19/2008 10:32:43 AM PDT by bereanway (Hunter in '08)
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To: justiceseeker93
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.

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.

54 posted on 03/19/2008 10:39:12 AM PDT by montag813
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To: ezcritter

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!


55 posted on 03/19/2008 10:45:32 AM PDT by LJayne (God Bless America, Land That I Love!)
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To: Cicero
This black power Christianity...

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

Black Liberation Theology.

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?

56 posted on 03/19/2008 10:49:59 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (GOP Plank: Double Domestic Crude Production. Increase refining capacity 50percent)
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To: Cicero

The black Hebrew Israelite sects also incorporate Jesus and the New Testament into their black supremacist beliefs.


57 posted on 03/19/2008 10:56:02 AM PDT by Revenge of Sith
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To: Kenny Bunk

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.


58 posted on 03/19/2008 11:14:56 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: LJayne

So True! God bless.


59 posted on 03/19/2008 11:27:12 AM PDT by ezcritter
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To: ridesthemiles
The "United Church of Christ" was formed in 1957 by the merger of the Congregational Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.  The Congregational Church stopped requiring its members to be Christians in the 18th century.
60 posted on 03/19/2008 11:47:56 AM PDT by Celtman (It's never right to do wrong to do right.)
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