Posted on 03/22/2008 8:08:21 AM PDT by 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.
Got ‘er covered in triplicate and different locations. I expect that there will be those from the other side who continue to try and cover-up, mis-direct, or color the truth. But it is out of the bag now and from many different voices it is making it self heard across the breath of this land.
If enough of us spread this word via forums, email chains, word of mouth, and any other means at our disposal, he will be defeated. And in going down, I believe he will fatally impact Hillary’s campaign as well as she is perceived as stealing the nomination from Obama by Obama supporters.
My thoughts exactly.
Salafism.
Only the Salafism of cowardice. Because at least Salafist Muslims come out and tell us that they hate everything about us and want to eradicate every trace of us. Cone hides behind the words "Christian" and "church" while having nothing but contempt for their values.
Gutless cowards.
“...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...”
Gramsci’s “march through the institutions”...
These MArxist fanatics are using our instituttions and rights (albeit a perverted form of religious freedom) to fester and grow amongst us to forment their hate and to spread.
In that hate, their rhetoric sounds very much like the other fantaics we face, the Jihadist Islamics.
At some point they will reach a stage in their development where they are more embolden...and then I believe they will take on other qualities of the Taliban, Al Quida, and other radical Islamics we see manifest around us today.
There were certainly those of that ilk amongst this same movement in its infancy in the 60’s. This current Black Liberation Theology is the development of that unrest and hate, where it has put on its full ideological and religious basis. We would be crazy to think that there are not those who harbor the same violent tendancies amongst them today, who are biding their time, and who desire the same methods be employed as those that marked this movement’s inception.
And their enemy will not only be whites, but also, clearly, will be and is what Reverend Wright refers to now indignantly as the “ignorant blacks” and people of color who do not share their world view.
As I have said, I believe that that group is the majority of blacks in this nation and society at large.
This is another another trait they share with the radical Islamics.
They won't just "take on their qualities." They'll establish formal alliances with them, and work in concert toward their shared goal.
If you watch all the winking and nodding going on with the endoresemnts of Obama by the Nation of Islam and New Black Panther Party...with Obama’s feigned denials, and their winking and nodding and in essense saying, “It’s ok bro, we understand the political expediency but we still got your back,” ... it’s already ahppening.
>At some point they will reach a stage in their development where they are more embolden...and then I believe they will take on other qualities of the Taliban, Al Quida, and other radical Islamics we see manifest around us today.<
Do you really think they will be able foster up that much courage? I see them as cowards now and don’t see any reason for changes developing in their character.
I fear that if Obama loses either the Democrat nod or the general election...particularly if it is close...that we may experience a taste of it this year. But that is the nature of the situation and we are darn well not going to be intimidated by threats of the "quiet riots" either.
As always, well said, joanie.
He has stated that he himself is as much and would use the bounties, the profits and the blessings of its liberty to bring it all down and to form a wrested, perverted image thereof built in the image of his own warped interpretations...which are clerly based on marxist, collective ideology.
great post.. thank you Jeff.... BTTT
David
Thanks David. If you are so inclined, please consider passing the link to my article and its information on to others.
bttt
But now his own chickens are coming home to roost and the truth is being revealed. Many of those fooled to this point are now turning away from the revolting speech and underlying ideology.
"The two most needed and rare qualities these days: realism and candor."
Read what the Preacherman [Charlie Daniels Soapbox] has to say.
FYI...if you had not seen this.
Daniels understands exactly what the score is and does not mind saying so. God bless him for it.
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