Posted on 05/03/2008 5:59:34 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
Ministers said they heard in Mr. Wright’s language “the same kind of passion and hyperbole as the Hebrew prophets,” said the Rev. Richard Wagoner of Union Congregational Church, a United Church of Christ church in St. Louis Park, Minn. Clergy members have cited the prophet Amos, who cursed all the nations, saving his harshest words for his own.
But many congregants heard something different, Mr. Wagoner said, and were angry about Mr. Wright’s sermons. After his speech at the National Press Club, more frustration surfaced.
“Many in our congregation are resonating with Obama’s talk of raising the discourse and that sort of idealism, and Jeremiah Wright’s comments have pulled the level of discourse down,” Mr. Wagoner said. “People are angry at the effect it is having on Obama’s campaign. And they are angry at having to revisit the race issue.”
Clergy members say some good may come out of the controversy, including a deeper conversation on race.
“When you have diversity, you’re going to have conflict — that is the price of diversity,” said the Rev. Joseph C. Hough Jr., president of Union Theological Seminary in New York. “The challenge is to recognize conflict and open windows of reconciliation.”
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Prophets are always hated by the general public. I’m not saying he is a prophet because his words seem to turn one against another. They have the effect of looking for a scapegoat to blame rather than the effect of repentance and turning one’s heart back to God.
If he is a prophet, it’s the false prophet variety.
That wasn’t what I meant. I meant he’s pretending his views are somehow pleasing to God.
Clearly it's working.
It seems to be a trend that so many ego-driven, race-baiting, self-promoting, America-hating bigots hide behind the frock.
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