Posted on 03/29/2008 5:41:54 PM PDT by george76
On the Sunday in 2003 when Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. shouted "God damn America" from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, he defined damnation as God's way of holding humanity accountable for its actions.
Obama has denounced Wright's most provocative remarks, but in a speech on race last week he defended Wright as a person and refused to disown him as his pastor.
Sunday after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Wright preached...the "brutally honest" last verses of Psalm 137, which he said "spotlight the insanity of the cycle of violence."
The sound bite taken from the sermon is something Wright on that day termed a "faith footnote," in which he used the phrase "chickens are coming home to roost" ...
Malcolm X expressed the same sentiment after the John F. Kennedy assassination...
In January, shortly after former President Bill Clinton referred to Obama's campaign as a fairy tale, Wright told his flock: "Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."
Rev. Winfred Neely, associate professor of pastoral studies at Moody Bible Institute, said that while churches should offer social critique, Wright's presentation is too ethnocentric.
"I don't think some of the critiques were offered in love for people," Neely said. "I think they were born of his own personal anger . . . and not necessarily a critique coming out of a heartbroken pain over the fact that God is being dishonored by what is going on in society and culture."
Marty said he thinks Wright crosses a line when he equates American power with white power.
He also believes that both Wright's praise of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Wright's stated belief that HIV and AIDS were created to destroy the black community damage his credibility.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Is that real? Good grief, I don’t believe it.
Has someone posted it here yet?
“Marty said he thinks Wright crosses a line when he equates American power with white power”
He is NOT crossing a line — as far as ‘black liberation theology’ is concerned.
Whatever good intentions reverend Wright may have — if we give him the benefit of the doubt — they are nullified by the racist poison of black liberation theology... a poison that infects whatever message he delivers to his listeners.
It’s very hard for a reasonable man to believe that Obama attended reverend Wright’s sermons for seventeen years — tainted with the aforementioned racist ‘theology’ — without it biasing his philosophical, spiritual, and (certainly) political outlook.
I haven't seen too many references to "shades of gray," either. Maybe it doesn't fit these race-baiting discussions very well.
The Rev. got that one right.
Not yet.
His 20 year mentor.
America’s first black president...
Fascism by any other name would smell so skunk.
Wright knows what packs in the pews in his black church.
Complex in this case means rambling, incoherent, historically inaccurate, race baiting, victimology; combined with rythmic body movement and voice intonnation, and sing-sogn pattern aimed at getting the congregation aroused before they have time to realize, interpret and respond to the content of the message.
Nah, simple cheap self-serving bigotry.
Sprinkled with a heavy dose of racism..
re: “complex”
Ah, I’ll bet you don’t understand “nuance” either! :^)
There’s a ‘sleeper’ running for president.
Translation. Devoid of any honesty.
Social Gospel is way beyond Christianity. How anybody can listen to this social Gospel and imagine they are in church is another mystery.
Whitewash of Pure Evil Alert.
Pastor Wright was among those preachers who rose to Bill Clinton's defense during Fornigate. He's a DUmmy.
Obama may be black but he’s not African-American in the traditional sense.
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