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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
This guy was obviously educated way past his intelligence.
“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.”
The ‘devil’ never tells an outright lie.
There’s always a grain of “truth” to it.
Of course we are ALL sinners (imperfect)and, therefore — loosely — can be called “thugs” ... if you will.
So he is telling his congregation — if indirectly — that it’s alright if they just happen to find themselves in the act of mugging someone (preferably ‘whitey’).
After all, god loves those thugs!
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... And you have a 'hard spot' for whitey!
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“The ‘devil’ never tells an outright lie.
There’s always a grain of “truth” to it.
Of course we are ALL sinners (imperfect)and, therefore — loosely — can be called “thugs” ... if you will.
So he is telling his congregation — if indirectly — that it’s alright if they just happen to find themselves in the act of mugging someone (preferably ‘whitey’).”
You are a great example of speaking with a grain of “truth” when you put words in his mouth. I highly doubt that is what he meant. I would guess he was doing what most white preachers do, offer the hope of God’s love to those are lost in sin.
Learn about Donald Young, the recently murdered gay choir director of Obama’s church (who may have been killed, to silence Larry Sinclair or others, who claim to have been involved with gay sex and drugs with Obama):
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message518237/pg1
mongrel writes:
“I would guess he was doing what most white preachers do, offer the hope of God’s love to those are lost in sin.”
First, I never compared Moss with what white preachers ‘do’ or — for that mater — what other black preachers ‘do.’
But I do know about the racist, genocidal ‘black liberation theology’ that underpinned the sermons at trinity of his predecessor — reverend wright.
Sermons that Wright delivered for 35 years.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990117/posts
In view of the above you will have to forgive me if I am less than sanguine about anything that comes from reverend Wrights successor’s mouth.
You ‘guess’ that he’s ‘offering’ the hope of God’s love to those are lost in sin.
And my ‘guess’ is that HIS words (not mine) may be taken by some congregants — as justifying uncivilized behaver.
I would sincerely hope that his ‘offering’ of “the hope of God’s love to those lost in sin”(using the words that YOU put in his mouth)includes ALL of gods children — not just the ones with black bodies.
The door of love and tolerance swings both ways.
Thank you for your post.
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