Posted on 03/20/2008 12:56:06 PM PDT by Caleb1411
. . . The problem for Obama, who campaigns on a message of racial reconciliation, is that the "mentor" whose church he joined and has generously supported with tens of thousands of dollars in donations is a disciple not of [Martin Luther] King but of James Cone, the expounder of a "black liberation" theology that teaches its adherents to "accept only the love of G-d which participates in the destruction of the white enemy."
Above all, the problem for Obama is that for two decades his spiritual home has been a church in which the minister damns America to the enthusiastic approval of the congregation, and not until it threatened to scuttle his political ambitions did Obama finally find the mettle to condemn the minister's odium.
When Don Imus uttered his infamous slur on the radio last year, Obama cut him no slack. Imus should be fired, he said. "There's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group."
When it came to Wright, however, he wasn't nearly so categorical. Oh, he's "like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with," Obama indulgently explained to one interviewer. He's just "trying to be provocative," he told another. "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial," he said. Far from severing his ties to Wright, Obama made him a member of his Religious Leadership Committee — a tie he finally cut only four days ago.
Such a clanging double standard raises doubts about Obama's character and judgment, and about his fitness for the role of race-transcending healer. Tuesday's speech was finely crafted, but it leaves some serious and troubling questions unanswered.
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Short answer, no.
Hate has no place in any faith...unless you’re an Islamist or one of those racist “black ideology” clowns.
“Should people of faith empathize with Obama? “
No, but people of Racist Ideology should.
You misunderstood him when he said that the white man created AIDS to target the black community. You didn’t hear the WHOLE sermon. < /s >
Um....NO.
Obama’s church draws its religion primarily from Marx and Mohammed, not Jesus. Rev. Wright speaks the name of Jesus from time to time, but I don’t recognize the teachings of Jesus in his sermons.
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”
—Matthew 7:21
Obama’s church draws its religion primarily from Marx and Mohammed, a very true statement!
Well said, and the man was still sworn in as Senator with his hand on the Koran, did we all forget or just politely ignore that fact?
No, he doesn’t represent my faith nor my Lord and Wright represents Satan in my book.
Wow! Do you think this is why we have not heard anything from Michelle?
That’s not faith being taught at his church....It’s hatred.
No.
Neither empathize or sympathize...and there is a difference.
No. They should know he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Absolutely not. Because I wish to be judged with the same judgement I mete out, I cut absolutely no slack to people who really are more akin to Hitler than any of the right-wingers who usually get slapped with that label — or people who sit raptly in their presence and at their feet for 20 years and then try to convince us that they didn’t inhale.
Bah. Humbug. Try again, Obama, that dog simply will not hunt.
Oh, I agree totally, they should do neither. I was just pointing out there's a difference in definition of both words. The other description that comes to mind is an empty suit.
Amen!
True “people of faith” will not succomb to hate-mongering. The troublesome aspect of this preacher and others like him is that he is using emotional rhetoric to inflame hatred. Those who care about the consequences of slavery should be attacking those in the world who continue to practice it at this present time!
However, there WAS a group that DID target the black community with eugenic destruction -
PLANNED PARENTHOOD under Margaret Sanger.
Not a word about this in the “black liberation theology”.
Not this person of faith.
What kind of idiot attends a 'church' like that and doesn't have a clue about the impact it is going to have if the public knows about it?
The Obamie kind of idiot.
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