The truth about the Black Liberation Theology taught by Reverend Wright at Obama's Church

JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | 22 March 2008 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

Despite the efforts of most of the main stream media (and Obama himself) trying to spin the incidents regarding Barack Obama's preacher and spiritual advisor into something acceptable to Americans, and his speech regarding race, by doing some individualresearch, it becomes clear that the spin will simply just not wash.

The Trinity Church subscribes to Black Liberation Theology. I believe that Obama will not leave that Church for one simple and obvious reason. Despite his new found disgust in "some" terminology that Wright employed, Obama must agree with the theology that the church teaches. He is raising his kids in it, and intends to stay with it.

Most of us feel strongly about the Christian churches we attend. If the clergy depart from the theology that we accept in our hearts, we leave them and find a congregation and doctrine that we subscribe to and will make better men and women of us (through the atonement of Jesus Christ) and allow us to help others. If the clergy sticks with the theology we accept in our hearts, we stay with them.

Obama is staying with the Trinity Church and continues to remain close to Wright, despite Wright's disgusting statements...and not statements from one or two sermons alone. No, Reverend Wright is an adrent supporter and preacher of Black Liberation Theology which is at the heart of who he is and what he has said.

This same Black Liberation theology subscribed to by Trinity is clearly what Obama subscribes to. His actions in this regard tell us as much.

He's been going and donating to that particular church for over twenty yerars. As stated, he is raising his kids in it, immersing them...baptising them into it. And Reverend Wright has done the immersing and baptising.

That church has done a lot of good in the black community, helping them to rise socially. But the underlying doctrine must be understood in order to bring into focus the good it does and reconcile it against the hate its preacher also spreads.

That theology can easily be reconciled to its good actions in the black community and the hateful rhetoric is emplys by simply studying it. This is something the most of the main stream media has either not done, or refuses to do, because the underlying doctrine is so repulsive that it should negate any major candidate in any way closely associated with it. Again, Black Liberation Theology is the admitted theology of Reverend Wright and the congregation. It is something that has helped form Obama and his views and it is therefore worthwhile to understand if we intend to consider him for all of our President.

It is not your traditional Christian message in the least.

Wright admits that he preaches his brand of that theology which is based, in part, on the works of one James Hal Cone, the recognized pioneer in the black brand of this theology, and who has been the Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.

Wright refered to Cone and his "pioneering" efforts in his contentious interveiw with Sean Hannity on Fox News in 2007, HERE.

Cone himself is much written and describes that theology in his book A Black Theology for Liberation, which is one of many books he has written. One notable quote in that book decribing Cone's interpretation of Black Christian Theology that he calls Black Liberation Theology is as follows:

"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."

That theology accepts a perverted and wrested interpretation of Jesus Christ where it describes him as a poor black man (or man of color) living under oppressive white European rule (the Romans) and that he was as much about social change and bringing down government as he was about spiritual liberation. He therefore meets Cone's (and adherants to this perverted view of our Savior) criteria for a God who supports their black power insurgency against what they describe as the ruling rich white men and women in America.

This interpretation perverts the love of all men, the peace, the forgiveness, and inner focus (spiritual focus) of Christ and His atonement which teaches us that the change His atonement brings about within us, which heals us spiritually, creates a new man fashioned after Christ who teaches by example, love, and long suffering.

Speaking of these qualities, Cone sarcastically states in the book:

"There is no use for a God who loves white oppressors the same as oppressed blacks. We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile."

As if this love, and Christ's own words regarding it are somehow a construct of the white race to keep people of color down. Disgusting, and really very, very tragic that people are being raised on this hate...because that is exactly what it is...and Cone says so.

"Black hatred is the black man's strong aversion to white society. No black man living in white America can escape it... While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism. "

Thus Black Liberation Theology changes Christ, the God of peace and love, into a God of their own construction, a God of hate and revenge, who is hell bent on political and social change at any cost and who supports that hate and "revenge" to suit their needs.

This is the message about Obama's "church" (and others like it) that needs to be spread. I do not believe it is at all subscribed to by most blacks in this country, and certainly not by society at large. But it has been hidden, growing...festering, and flying under the radar in these radical churches and because of political correctness it has been heretofore untouchable. But now the cat is out of the bag.

It is shocking, is is disgusting...and it is dangerous.

It is in no way related to, or a derivitve of American foreign policy or society. The fact is America, despite its problems and mistakes, has set more people free (even through a horrific civil war of our own) and and given them individual liberty (and thus individual accountability) and therefore truly assisted more people's on this earth than any other nation on it.

...and there is the rub. Christ teaches that all men are created equal and that they are individsually responsible for their actions with an inate ability to "Come unto Him" and be free. The American constituion, despite changes that required fire and blood to address (and, OBTW, that blood was shed in the civil war principally by white men fighting to to, among other things, preserve the Union and free the blacks), sets down in law the same principles.

This theology, Black Liberation Theology, is a blatant attempt to mix and wrest and perevert Christianity into a construct for the age old battle against individual rights. It is a Marxist ideological, collective, and ultimately tyranical construct committed to destroying individual freedom.

This same type of liberation theology has been used for decades in Latin America to pervert Catholics and goad them into rising into Marxist rebellions in class warfare.

That is what this is...and it is the version accepted and practised by black radicals in this country and it is intent on changing this country into a socio-marxist state where wealth, opportunity, and position are not earned by individuals, but instead are handed out by the state...and in this case they simply want to be the ones in control of redistributing it all for their purposes and what they call "their" people.

[Jeff Head]

Clearly Obama believes the essence of Black Liberation Theology. He is a smooth talker whom they are counting on to take the Presidency without the American public ever knowing the background and essences of their thought.

But that is changing as the truth comes out, and I believe God's Hand is in it...the rue God of peace, love, truth, forgiveness, and atonement

The "quiet" riots, likiening them to LA, are not "quiet" at all and they, IMHO, are a clear warning regarding their aims and the lengths they will go to achieve them.

[bruinbirdman]

"....it just baffles me how people can be duped into this type of thinking and way of life....."

Because they are baptised into it by the likes of Michelle Osama and the Rev. Wrong at an early age. Hussein's kids have already spent their entire formative years hating America.

Kinda like the third generation of "Palestinian" zealot losers.

yitbos

[Riverman94610]

Maxine is in Hillary’s corner.

[bruinbirdman]

"Obama was being groomed for a presidential run since before his DNC "One America" speech in 2004."

A point well taken.

When you get right down to it, when it comes to Marxists, the DNC can't lose between Hussein Osama and Hillary Robem Klinton.

yitbos

[CrosscutSaw]

An Obama nation would be an abomination.

This dangerous con man must be defeated, even if it means seeing Hillary as the Democrat nominee.

[maine-iac7]

Maxine Waters, Dem. CA

"No Obama, No Peace

Did she actually SAY this!

She has endorsed the hillderbeast.

WE need to be careful of attributing things to people if not true. Every word we write here goes out on the world wide web for all to see - and find.

We have plenty of true ammunition without making any up = it will only hurt us.

[maine-iac7]

[maine-iac7]

The question is, can America survive such shock therapy?

I'm afraid not without blood in the streets - "Red Square" across the country

[joanie-f]

Jeff, your research and commentary are both well done and well said, as always. All American voters need to know precisely what kind of ‘theology’ Reverend Wright dispenses from the pulpit each week. They also need to do some analysis of the ‘theology’ to which Barack Obama has been exposed for more than twenty years – and to which he has chosen to expose his children for their entire young lives. What do those consious choices imply?

A church is loosely defined as a body or organization of religious believers, and a minister is loosely defined as the church’s spiritual overseer.

Both the sermons that Pastor Wright has delivered, and the literature that is readily available in the library of Trinity Church, clearly define that church as one that has as its core belief the theology of black liberation. No one could possibly attend Trinity Church for more than twenty years without recognizing that its main message is that of black liberation theology, as you have described in all its hate-filled ugliness above.

The only rational explanations (I invite the possibility of others, but sincerely doubt that they exist, other than in the mind of leftist apologists) for Barack Obama’s continued membership in, and regular attendance at, Trinity Church are:

(1) He embraces the belief that man has the right to pour God into his own mold, and to demand of God that He fulfill certain man-authored prerequisites in order to deserve worship -- and those prerequisites to which man may hold God accountable may include the condoning of hatred toward another race, and even the desire to inflict harm on that race
- or –

(2) Obama does not believe (1) above, but condones a spiritual advisor and overseer who does, and willingly supports (both spiritually and financially) the dissemination of life- and civilization-altering spiritual messages with which he vehemently disagrees.

If such a man is elected to the presidency, then we will have placed in the position of leader of the free world a man who either (1) despises the white race, or (2) possesses the foresight, principles and convictions of an alley cat.

A commenter on my weblog recently wrote, ‘If we elect this man, it will mean that either (1) we agree with the hate-filled, anti-American philosophy defined by black liberation theology, or (2) we haven’t done our homework regarding this man’s genuine beliefs.’

I think I know the American people well enough to know that we have yet to reach the point at which we are willing to accept the hate-filled rantings of BLT believers as true and deserving of respect.

But I also believe that ignorance and apathy are now rampant among the voting public, and there is a clear and present danger that this man will indeed rise to the presidency, simply because not enough of us are sufficiently informed to comprehend the ramifications of such a watershed event. He is, after all, charismatic (how I despise that word). And, unlike the historical kind of toxic charisma that has unleashed all manner of human tragedy in a cult-like setting, Obama’s particular brand of charisma – worst case scenario -- can conceivably bring down a republic, and affect the entire course of world history.

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed

[Jeff Head]

But I also believe that ignorance and apathy are now rampant among the voting public, and there is a clear and present danger that this man will indeed rise to the presidency, simply because not enough of us are sufficiently informed to comprehend the ramifications of such a watershed event. He is, after all, charismatic

Thus it falls to each of us as God-fearing (meaning the one God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and His Son...and not the invention of conspiring men), patriotic Americans who have found out the truth of this shameful, dangerous sham, to spread the word and in as reasoned a manner as possible, to put the truth of it before the American people.

I believe God in Heaven has provided the opportunity, to the chagrin of the deceivers, to see the truth...and He has also provided the means (the internet, the forums, the blogs, the email chains, faxes, snail mail, phones, etc) so that we can dissiminate the message if we have the will.

It is the self same will of our founders and the original correspondences of liberty that they used through word of mouth and their mail system. We are empowered today to do the same and I believe if we exert oursleves, God will make our weaknesses strong and the word will get out and have its impact to the astonishment of our enemies.

I intend to do all in my power to help it happen.

[KeyLargo]

Where will Obama be for Easter?
By Michelle Malkin • March 22, 2008 12:01 AM

Looks like Barack Obama won’t be in the pews at Trinity Church of Christ this Easter. He’s headed for some fun in the sun. Via ABC News:

Obama’s allies are hoping the focus will stay off of Wright this Easter Sunday when the Democratic frontrunner skips services at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and heads on vacation. Per ABC News’ Sunlen Miller, sources familiar with Obama’s plans say the Illinois Democrat is expected to go on a tropical vacation with the most likely bet appearing to be St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Obama, whose campaign will not confirm his plans, is expected to leave Chicago on Sunday morning and will return either on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

Obama’s allies are hoping the focus will stay off of Wright this Easter Sunday when the Democratic frontrunner skips services at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and heads on vacation. Per ABC News’ Sunlen Miller, sources familiar with Obama’s plans say the Illinois Democrat is expected to go on a tropical vacation with the most likely bet appearing to be St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Obama, whose campaign will not confirm his plans, is expected to leave Chicago on Sunday morning and will return either on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/22/where-will-obama-be-for-easter/

Gee, I wonder if Obama’s Chicago church-goers will be upset that he is abandoning them on Easter?

[TigersEye]

This is not religion. This is political insurrection in the color of religion.

I think that sums it up pretty well. It is purely a political ideology dressed up in theological robes.

We had best be very careful when analyzing Obama. He either must, forthwith, completely and wholly disassociate himself from this radical ideology and the Church that teaches it...

I don't see any way he can do that. Any sort of rejection of it now can't be credible.

[editor-surveyor]

It’s pure distilled hate, not theology.

[editor-surveyor]

Keep a good back-up of your website Jeff, it’s going to be attacked. Just like this thread is being messed with right now.

[Travis McGee]

I’ll have to catch it on DVD.....once it hits Walmart’s 2 for ten bucks bin. I’m not much on spending $$ for new movies.

[Travis McGee]

AKA “CW2.”

[B4Ranch]

I know it isn't politically correct for White America to criticize Black America. The Trinity Church subscribes to Black Liberation Theology which says, “We are owed by the White man.

No, I didn't make a spelling error. I didn't intend to write owned, owed is exactly what I meant to say. These people truly believe that the White man owes them financial reparations for the slavery suffered by their ancestors. If that is what the congregation wishes to believe then I am happy for them and will do nothing to change their beliefs.

America is at risk if there is underreaction to such beliefs. An underreaction would be to deny such beliefs exist. We do not want someone who thinks this way to ever become our Commander-In-Chief. There is a possibility that such a C-I-C believer could straighten out the suicide path we are on and make it too direct where we wouldn't have a chance to veer off at the last moment.

As more and more young people shy away from religious beliefs the shape of the once admired average American family unit dissolves. Without a religious core the family unit seems to be groping for direction these days. Earlier today a friend and I were discussing Obamma, his church and his beliefs. He asked me, "Is having no religious beliefs better than believing in hate?" Boy, that's a difficult question. All I know is that if you aren't a Christian I don't want you as my President.

If my choice for presidential candidate remains Obamma, Clinton or McCain I will send in an absentee vote for Ron Paul.

[joanie-f]

The two most needed and rare qualities these days: realism and candor.

Thank you.

~ joanie

[maine-iac7]

AKA “CW2.”

That's probably where it would start.

There must be a lot of sleepless nights in the DNC these days - ah, nights.

[Jeff Head]

Exactly...he is caught in a web of his own making. He is who he is and will not be able to distance himself from himself.