Posted on 03/21/2008 4:01:06 AM PDT by chessplayer
Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a "black messiah" and blacks as "the chosen people". At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy.
Biblical theology teaches that even the most terrible events to befall Israel, such as the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE, embody the workings of divine justice, even if humankind cannot see God's purpose. James Cone sees the matter very differently. Either God must do what we want him to do, or we must reject him, Cone maintains:
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love. [1]
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
Absolutely!
Unless, of course, it's true.
“Obama is not muslim”
Maybe but he has muslim roots and he could be a muslim as marxists are strong muslims’ fellows for their fight against the western “free” “christian” world.
Some marxists “converted” to islam...
They have shaped a “religion” into their own mold. Then they use it to justify their racist behavior.
Sounds like Islamism 101.
It’s a simple rule, if you ain’t Catholic, you’re a heretic.
“Real Face Of Jesus: December 2002 Cover Story
Advances in forensic science reveal the most famous face in history.”
“From the first time Christian children settle into Sunday school classrooms, an image of Jesus Christ is etched into their minds. In North America he is most often depicted as being taller than his disciples, lean, with long, flowing, light brown hair, fair skin and light-colored eyes. Familiar though this image may be, it is inherently flawed. A person with these features and physical bearing would have looked very different from everyone else in the region where Jesus lived and ministered. Surely the authors of the Bible would have mentioned so stark a contrast. On the contrary, according to the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion, Judas Iscariot had to indicate to the soldiers whom Jesus was because they could not tell him apart from his disciples.”
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282186.html
The only other thing that gives us a hint as to what Jesus really looked like is the Shroud of Turin.
And Hannity refused to answer the question.
Just as the simple claim that one is a conservative does not make one a conservative, one is not a Constitutionalist unless one believes in the entire Constitution accepting the risk and responsibilities that come along with the rights, no man is a Christian who does not accept every work in the Bible as spoken by God.
Barak’s church is not a Christian church, black liberation theology is not part of Christian teachings, but this attack on his pastor and his preaching is a sword that will come back to haunt many.
I am familiar with the teachings of the woman minister who pastored the church that President George Bush called home in Kennebunkport, fundamental Christians who believe in the teachings of the Bible would have a field day with her sermons and her being a pastor.
While I don’t know Sean Hannity’s pastor, I don’t even know if he has a home church, I will say with absolute certainty that if he does and if I and many here on FR had access to his sermons over the last ten years, and we held Sean responsible for those sermons as Barak is being held responsible for his pastors sermons, Sean would not be number two.
Mark my words, these attacks on Obama based not upon his record or his sayings, but what has been said by his associates and family, will come back to haunt many a candidate in the future.
The lineage of Jesus does not go back to Moses' Ethiopian wife, so Jesus was not black.
The problem is, we are just beginning to find out what change means. Obama is a racist without doubt. We need to find out what else he is.
The first thing that needs to happen is for the press to start to string toghether all of his racist ties and then admit who he is. Well maby who he is not! He is not a man to unite the country. He is not a man truthfully telling us who he is.
The problem is, we are just beginning to find out what change means. Obama is a racist without doubt. We need to find out what else he is.
The first thing that needs to happen is for the press to start to string toghether all of his racist ties and then admit who he is. Well maby who he is not! He is not a man to unite the country. He is not a man truthfully telling us who he is.
that would be an artist conception, much like the artist conception of the so called missing links drawn from a tooth or a bone fragment.
We have the lineage of Jesus in the Bible, that tells us much, for instance we have a very good description of David, who is in the direct line of Jesus. We have an excellent description of Absolom, one of David's sons.
This is whole idea of “black liberation theology” is nuts. Theology is the study of God and the divine nature of God. He is what He is. One seeks after the truth of that, presumably so that one may direct his life accordingly.
“Black liberation theology”—to the extent that it’s not just packaging to pretty-up radical politics—reverses the equation. It focuses on self, then hands God a to-do list.
It makes no more sense than black liberation geology.
Do these ‘Christian’ churches even do any preaching about the teachings of Jesus Christ? They seem to be all about political activism-—whining instead of worship.
This is an example of what Cone teaches? Go ahead, someone tell me I'm reading this out of context.
If the "Reverend" Wright deserves anything, it is an apology that the bad example of white bigots of a hundred years ago has helped him make himself a bitter, bile-spitting, crazy old black racist, at a point in history where everyone I know has a pretty good opinion of blacks in general...except, often, themselves.
Yep.....Looking for God’s hand for help rather than looking for his face and a smile.
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