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To: george76

” 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.”

Obviously Wright’s ethnocentric presentation speaks to black liberation theology: a (not complex) mix (some might say bastardization) of “black” culture and religion’.


18 posted on 03/29/2008 6:51:36 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: STE=Q
Of course the Obama campaign is not the only ones airbrushing their website due to the sudden scrutiny of Reverend Doctor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. and his flock.

As we noted back in January of 2007, the pastor’s church used to explain themselves thusly (via the Internet Wayback Machine):

 

20 posted on 03/29/2008 6:58:31 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: STE=Q

“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.


22 posted on 03/29/2008 7:26:51 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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