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?
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.