Obama's church pushes controversial doctrines

McClatchy Newspapers ^ | 03/21/08 | Margaret Talev

[coffee260]

 WASHINGTON — Jesus is black. Merging Marxism with Christian Gospel may show the way to a better tomorrow. The white church in America is the Antichrist because it supported slavery and segregation.

Those are some of the more provocative doctrines that animate the theology at the core of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Barack Obama's church.

Obama's speech Tuesday on race in America was hailed as a masterful handling of the controversy over divisive sermons by the longtime pastor of Trinity United, the recently retired Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

But in repudiating and putting in context Wright's inflammatory lines about whites and U.S. foreign policy, the Democratic presidential front-runner didn't address other potentially controversial facts about his church and its ties.

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[oh8eleven]

I’m shocked I tell you, just shocked!

[henkster]

“Controversial policies?”

How about just calling it like it is. Obama attends a racist church that is just a black mirror image of the KKK.

[weegee]

Obama has claimed that he was not always present when the controversial sermons were delivered.

Obama has ALSO claimed to have ordered cassettes of Wright’s sermons to listen to when he is on the road.

So what sermons DID he order and what is the content of them?

And how is Bill Clinton meeting with Wright a scandal? Does this open Mrs. Obama to criticism for any encounters she has had with Wright?

[Rockitz]

When all of this gets out, Barack will never be elected to office again.

[syriacus]

Obama's speech distanced him from a few things his pastor said.

It didn't distance him from Wright, from Trinity UCC, or from its "me-me-me"-ology or from its rewritten history.

[oh8eleven]

Obama attends a racist church that is just a black mirror image of the KKK.
I think his church is more Communist than KKK .... but it's really a toss up.

[Jim Scott]

Obama probably doesn't buy into all the Marxist claptrap that underpins 'Black Liberation Theology' but he must be pretty comfortable with it to be as close to Jeremiah Wright as he was - for 20 years. This article shows that, as if we didn't pretty much have it figured out, already.

Barack Hussein Obama is a cookie-cutter lefty with who plays around the fringes of the radical left. He is not fit, by his experience or very questionable political philosophy (wrapped in an attractive oratorical package) - to hold the position of President of the United States.

[joebuck]

"The white church in America is the Antichrist because it supported slavery"

As I recall the northern Christian Church was the primary weighstation for the underground railroad.

[Secret Agent Man]

Obama’s church pushes racist doctrines.

There, fixed it.

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[alrea]

Well slavery got us this far.

[reg45]

northern Christian Church was the primary weighstation for the underground railroad

More importantly, the Christian churches of the north were at the center of the entire abolitionist movement.

[Secret Agent Man]

Wright doesn’t even know his history. There were a lot of abolitionists in the colonies. Some of them had been asking King Goerge to allow their states to abolish slavery. King George said as long as they were under British rule, the colonies (all of them) would have slavery. Many patriots were against George on this, for not only self-rule reasons, but their religious convictions that slavery was wrong.

I would recommend David Barton to anyone who wants accurate history of the United States.

This was one of the many reasons why the revolution occurred.

[alrea]

questionable political philosophy (wrapped in an attractive oratorical package

a progressive marxist with a nicer pantsuit and a more expensive haircut

[Matchett-PI]

You got it!

[Berlin_Freeper]

What I resent is Obama making it seem like all black churches are like this. I was in a black church once as best man at a wedding and it was nothing like Wright. It just gives black christians a bad name and it's not right.

[Sherman Logan]

He’s a shoe-in from any black district.

[Sherman Logan]

Obviously never heard of the Quakers or the Secret Six.

[thulldud]

Yeah, but because he's black, he doesn't have the institutional power to enforce prejudice, therefore, by definition, he cannot be racist. Didn't you get the memo? Only whitey got that kind of power, therefore, whites are institutionally racist.

I wonder how they deal with this definition now that B. Hussein is a US Senator. Does that not qualify as "power" in their book? And what if he DID become POTUS?