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Letter from UCC Wisconsin Conference Minister RE: Jeremiah Wright
Letter to Church Members
| 18 March 2008
Posted on 03/21/2008 12:54:27 PM PDT by Space Moose
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To: boomop1
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posted on
03/21/2008 1:16:09 PM PDT
by
eeevil conservative
(GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
To: Space Moose
"The video clips represent perhaps 15-20 seconds of that time. Those clips represent .0000012 of his total preaching at Trinity, and yet many are quick to judge him, his church, and, indeed, our denomination, on this statistically ridiculous sample."
BUT those were the clips Wright himself choose to put on the "best of" video sold by his own church. One can only conclude that these clips are indicative of "Rev." Wrights entire 36 years ministry and these are the moments he is proudest of.
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posted on
03/21/2008 1:17:58 PM PDT
by
joebuck
(Finitum non capax infinitum!)
To: Space Moose
A recent press release from Trinity UCC, issued by the new Senior Pastor, the Rev. Otis Moss III, identifies Trinitys generosity and accomplishments, and then says that on Sunday mornings alone, over 36 years, Pastor Wright has spoken for 207,792 minutes. The video clips represent perhaps 15-20 seconds of that time. Those clips represent .0000012 of his total preaching at Trinity, and yet many are quick to judge him, his church, and, indeed, our denomination, on this statistically ridiculous sample. This moron has a divinity degree, probably a doctorate, and still whips out a totally specious argument like this?
}:-)4
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posted on
03/21/2008 1:18:00 PM PDT
by
Moose4
(Hey GOP...don't move toward the middle. Move the middle toward us.)
To: Space Moose
Pastor Wright has spoken for 207,792 minutes. The video clips represent perhaps 15-20 seconds of that time. Doesn't change my feelings. 15 seconds or 1000 hours his white hatred showed and it was vicious. Hard to put the genie back into the bottle. From the mouth of Hussein Obama himself, "Don't tell me words don't matter".
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posted on
03/21/2008 1:28:06 PM PDT
by
youturn
(First of all, drop the "my friend". Just because I have to vote for you doesn't mean we are friends.)
To: Space Moose
Sorry, there is a big difference between just saying something and preaching it.
To preach something is to believe it and to sell others on the idea!
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posted on
03/21/2008 1:33:17 PM PDT
by
Beagle8U
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To: Moose4
Yeah, I just found out that he thinks President Bush has a different god than Harriet Tubman did.
Race-baitiers are often polytheists.
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posted on
03/21/2008 1:43:47 PM PDT
by
Baladas
To: DManA
Very twisted indeed.
Black Liberation Theology and "Christian Identity" are mirror images of each other.
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posted on
03/21/2008 1:47:09 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Space Moose
Anyone who has built a congregation from 87 members to some 8000 and whose congregation has modeled ministries to one of the poorest areas of Chicago has provided a body of work that speaks for itself Is that all that matters? The number of folowers? Look at the number of followers Hitler had in his hey-dey -- or Mao Tse Tung. Jesus warned us all to beware of false prophets.
To: DManA
System and ethos of polity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ
Quoting the United Church of Christ Constitution, “The basic unit of the life and organization of the United Church of Christ is the local church.”[19] An interplay of wider interdependence with local autonomy characterizes the organization of the UCC. Each “setting” of the United Church of Christ relates covenantally with other settings, their actions speaking “to but not for” each other.
1.2 million members in 5,000 congregations - seems to follow a model not unlike “state’s rights.” Although the denomination has roots in conservative, German tradition, the current scope and breadth of the UCC denomination varies quite widely based on the geography and demographics of each congregation. All are free to set and play by their own rules for the most part - which is why you’ll see old rural farmer churches and urban black militant churches existing under the same banner.
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posted on
03/21/2008 2:19:30 PM PDT
by
sbMKE
To: youturn
PAster Wright also ran verbatim articles written by the Hamas ministry of information on 7/22/07.
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posted on
03/21/2008 2:21:54 PM PDT
by
sbMKE
To: Dutchboy88
What's notable is that the author never denied that the Rev. Wright is virulently anti-American, or that Wright's church is.
To: Space Moose
The letter speaks of Wright’s love for his congregation. Perhaps, but a love built on hate isn’t much good, in my opinion.
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posted on
03/21/2008 2:59:19 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: Space Moose
Those clips represent .0000012 of his total preaching at Trinity, If those quotes were out of character should we assume Rev. Wright was drunk.... or on drugs?
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posted on
03/21/2008 4:09:33 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(Karma: Obama threw his grandmother under his “We Are the Ones” bus ++++ The bus was killed.)
To: Space Moose
seen generations come and growPity the young souls who have been led astray.
If Wright regrets his words, where are his apologies?
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posted on
03/21/2008 4:11:20 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(Karma: Obama threw his grandmother under his “We Are the Ones” bus ++++ The bus was killed.)
To: Space Moose
Put yourself in the study at Trinity and look out on a city of African American people stretching for miles in nearly every direction, and juxtapose those texts for Easter Sunday and find your voice in the context of poverty and racism and lack of education and health care.Wright ran that Church for 35 years.
We know he has an expensive car and a mansion.
How well have his parishoners fared?
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posted on
03/21/2008 4:13:42 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(Karma: Obama threw his grandmother under his “We Are the Ones” bus ++++ The bus was killed.)
To: DManA
Here is the Statement of Faith of the church to which I belong. Note the difference when compared to what is found on the Trinity UCC site.
http://hillside.org/215535.ihtml
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