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Replacement Obama Pastor Just As Controversial As Wright
Newsmax ^ | May 7, 2008 | Newsmax Staff

Posted on 05/08/2008 11:45:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama has finally distanced himself from Rev. Jeremiah Wright after a_20-year_relationship, but the pastor who is replacing Wright at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ is likely to be just as controversial.

New Trinity pastor Otis Moss has called Biblical patriarch Abraham a “pimp” and made other statements many would consider offensive.

After Obama called Wright’s comments “divisive and destructive,” a questioner noted that Rev. Moss has defended Wright and asked if Obama would continue attending the church.

“Well, the new pastor, the young pastor, Reverend Otis Moss, is a wonderful young pastor,” Obama responded. “And as I said, I still very much value the Trinity community.”

Moss, the 37-year-old “hip-hop pastor,” as he’s called by congregants, will become head of Trinity in June, after serving as an assistant pastor there for two years.

But a videotape of a sermon he delivered at Wright’s church shows this “wonderful young pastor” referring to “ghetto prophets” and “thug theology,” calling the late rapper Tupac Shakur a “prophet,” and reciting at length lyrics to Shakur’s song “Thugz Mansion.”

Moss also states in the sermon:

“Jesus has a soft spot for thugs.”

“God is always using thugs to do God’s work.”

“Everyone has a little bit of thug in them.”

Noah was a “thug” who “was drinking much gin and juice and got drunk on the eve of reconstruction.”

Abraham “pimped his own wife.”

Jacob was a “hustler” who “stole his own brother’s birthright.”

Moses was a “thug” and “if he got mad would give you a royal beatdown.”

Sampson was a “thug” and a “player.”

David was a “thug,” a “shot caller,” and a “player,” and a man after God’s own heart.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; christianity; election; elections; obama; otismoss; trinityucc; wright
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Trinity United Church of Christ: The gift that keeps on giving.
1 posted on 05/08/2008 11:46:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Well, I guess if you have to speak down to the level of your congregation to reach ‘em.......Now, I wonder which one would lead the White House prayer breakfast if Obama gets in?
2 posted on 05/08/2008 11:55:24 AM PDT by Melinda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even the Bible must be reduced to its lowest common denominator and the language translated to Ebonics to “get across” to the sympathy slaves of the Black Liberation Theology ....

Integration of fire and water will not work...it only builds “steam”
One will eventually “extinguish” the other....


3 posted on 05/08/2008 11:56:47 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No shocker here. American voters, IMO, better wake up and start paying attention.


4 posted on 05/08/2008 11:57:08 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I agree. This just confirms that there are two sets of rules regarding racism.


5 posted on 05/08/2008 12:02:28 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Otis Moss is a thug, or so it would seem.

Ah yes, nothing quite like lauding thugs to make you point from the pulpit.

Oh, I’m sorry, I’m sure his reference to thuggery was taken out of context. But then, isn’t everything at that “church”?


6 posted on 05/08/2008 12:06:43 PM PDT by RexBeach
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“Oh, I’m sorry, I’m sure his reference to thuggery was taken out of context. But then, isn’t everything at that “church”?”

Exactly.


7 posted on 05/08/2008 12:11:00 PM PDT by unkus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t think we are allowed to Excerpt Newsmax anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong


8 posted on 05/08/2008 12:11:46 PM PDT by devnull (In a 5-4 Decision We Trust)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

9 posted on 05/08/2008 12:15:09 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: devnull; Admin Moderator
"I don’t think we are allowed to Excerpt Newsmax anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong."

I don't know...

10 posted on 05/08/2008 12:21:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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This isn’t a Christian church, and the people profitting from it aren’t ministers. God must love stupid people, because He makes a lot of them.


11 posted on 05/08/2008 12:23:24 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Concerned about the price of arugula)
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To: Melinda
Good ol' Otis will be in charge of:

pimping out all the Official WH rides
replacing limos with pink pimp cadillacs
requiring all WH staff to cronk their teeth
Flavor-Flav-ing Secret Service
mandating all WH correspondence begin with "Yo! Word up!"

12 posted on 05/08/2008 12:24:09 PM PDT by kromike
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, any criticism of these statements is an attack on the “Black Church”!

Me, I go to the White Church.


13 posted on 05/08/2008 12:26:43 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Concerned about the price of arugula)
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To: popdonnelly

These are the very same parishioners complaining the most about being “disrespected” by non-black society...

Well — if they behave as fools, talk like fools, follow fools, elect fools and ignore facts as fools — almost any rational educated person would consider them fools.

It’s very difficult to respect a fool, and dangerous to trust one.


14 posted on 05/08/2008 12:36:41 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Rev. Otis:
Tupak Shakur. "It is my assessment he is the greatest prophetic contradiction of the last half of the 20th Century of the black community birth..."

Say what?

Here's the VIDEO:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr0T8tGbkNE


15 posted on 05/08/2008 12:57:37 PM PDT by XR7
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To: popdonnelly

Our new worship center has a Black ceiling. It is above the white man. Does that count?


16 posted on 05/08/2008 1:01:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Newsmax can be posted on FR but it must be posted as an excerpt.


17 posted on 05/08/2008 1:18:21 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The Rev. Otis:

Shake off your bourgeois paradigms
for just a moment...
Everybody has some thug proclivities,
Some ghetto tendencies,
Some countrified activities -
This is derivative of country and ghetto.

Say what?

18 posted on 05/08/2008 1:28:37 PM PDT by XR7
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To: XR7

I think I would rather listen to Rev. Wright’s racist ass for a hour than this clown for 30 minutes.


19 posted on 05/08/2008 1:34:46 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: XR7

It doesn’t matter if what he says makes any sense, because he is using big words........


20 posted on 05/08/2008 1:36:10 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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