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Going Soft on Georgia's Rev. Wright Acolyte
Townhall.com ^ | November 20, 2020 | Tim Graham

Posted on 11/20/2020 4:31:26 AM PST by Kaslin

Secular liberals have a serious problem with any commingling of church and state ... at least when the church in question opposes their most precious and permissive causes, like the right to abort unborn babies, the right to subsidized contraceptives, and the right to invent your own genders and pronouns.

But when a church gives off a whiff of "progressive" ideology or theology, well, that's a different matter entirely. Religion then becomes a qualification, not a disqualification.

This was encapsulated in a tweet by Sam Stein of the Daily Beast: "Why are Raphael Warnock's faith and sermons fair game for attack but Amy Coney Barrett's religious views not?" The Rev. Raphael Warnock, now a Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia, is hailed by the secular media as an inheritor of not only Martin Luther King Jr.'s "iconic" Baptist church but also his leftist causes.

This is a curious stance for Stein, since he wrote an alarm-bells article last month in which he claimed Barrett had allowed her signature to appear on a local ad protesting the "barbaric legacy" of Roe v. Wade. Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review found that this claim was inaccurate, that Barrett only signed a statement supporting an end to "abortion on demand."

Stein surely feels other adjectives should be used for legal abortions, like "therapeutic," and "empowering" and, for serious Orwellians, "life-saving." But with an election looming, Senate Democrats felt pressure to avoid their innate desires to perpetuate the florid press angle that the traditionally Catholic Barrett is some kooky "handmaid" in a creepy religious group.

Now that Georgia has only the Senate races left for the media to cover, our "objective" media firmly placed any criticism of Warnock in the "Republicans Pounce" category. On Nov. 1, before the fall campaign ended, New York Times reporter Richard Fausset calmly acknowledged the radical so-called social gospel of Warnock.

Warnock's mentor was Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, the Marxist father of black liberation theology. And he publicly defended another Cone-head, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., who says "God damn America" in his sermons and who preached after 9/11 that "America's chickens are coming home to roost."

On Fox News in March 2008, Warnock proclaimed, "We celebrate Rev. Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth-telling tradition of the black church." A lot of media said silly things like that about Wright's hateful "truth-telling."

Republicans also "pounced" on Warnock's hot take on President Donald Trump in 2016: "America needs to repent for its worship of whiteness!" And they pounced on Warnock's 2011 sermon in which he said that "nobody can serve God and the military." If that's about violence, he hasn't claimed nobody can serve God and Planned Parenthood.

But ABC, CBS, and NBC have shown no interest in these extreme sermons. The majority of the Senate hangs in the balance, and Martin Luther King's supposed heir is granted the customary partisan protections.

These journalists hate it when white Baptists or Catholics allegedly try the patience of God by supporting Donald Trump, but black churches ripping on the "worship of whiteness" and how America deserved 9/11 somehow never strains the bonds of Christian charity. This only underlines that most reporters are not religious people and just see religion as something employed to manipulate voters. Religion is considered virtuous if it manipulates voters toward the "right side of history."


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1 posted on 11/20/2020 4:31:26 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

San Stein needs to do his homework.

That’s all it takes, due diligence and an open mind.


2 posted on 11/20/2020 4:35:45 AM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
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To: sauropod

here is a repost of mine, you may have seen the first part a while back...

you are right....It’s the extended program of islam
This is but the most recent chapter...
Here is a segment from a previous post..

The DNC has adopted the position of the marxist muslim coalition as projected by Carlos the Jackal and others of his time.
Go read Carlos the Jackal for his opinion of how to bring down the west.
He acknowledged that Marxism by itself could not bring down the west , nor could islam; but an alliance, a coalition of the two could. Obama was both a marxist and a muslim... and a lying radical at that.
Libya? Benghazi was all a part of that.

here’s why they want President Trump:

This is what we are witnessing in the blm and antifa movements, they are Hillary’s frontline, brownshirts of her “resistance”
Ever notice how Bill Ayers was aligned with Obama???? Ever notice how Susan Rosenberg is the advisor to the blm??? Susan’s sentence was commuted by Clinton on his vast day in office. Both blm and antifa are alive in western nations.
This horseshit was in the pipeline over the last 8 years of Obama as he embedded his players in key government positions. Now, add in some Alynsky... and more Hillary.

Trump got in the way of their program, their “death to America” agenda. It’s still in gear, but Hillary was supposed to win so they could flip America.
Obama , Biden and HRC ++++ had installed an operational totalitarian government.

In their need to protect their agenda, they weaponized all intelligence, CIA, FBI, NSA thereby flexing their muscle using FISA to spy on the competition.... it could have been anyone who tripped the wire, but it ended up being president elect Trump. AND then after that, we saw them try to unseat President Trump afterwards, so we see that many of their deep state efforts are still alive today.
With the media suppression of the Biden corruption scandals we see the media’s complicity in their totalitarian agenda
The hijacking and destruction of America was well underway .... and many of its loyalists are still fighting to maintain the nefarious obamian “DEATH TO AMERICA” agenda.

Take out America and you take out the hub of western Christian man, his culture , his heritage, his successes, achievements advancements and progress.

IF and when the lights of liberty, rights and freedom go out in America~~~ it will take over a thousand years for the lights of liberty to come back on..
The democrats do not see that, they wish for death, death to America

What’s the choice?

Every success we have~ is founded in the reason we went to the crusades.

It’s the isamaphobia which gave us all our rights, liberty and freedoms in the Magna Carta. This document was created at the height of the crusades. Once we learned we could own property, then we started trading in ideas... thus patent law.... then we had some reformation.... and these were the building blocks that led to the Industrial revolution. Central to this was free speech. New ideas, and debate.
It’s this group of events that gave the advancement the world enjoys today.

Nobody else did this , not the Chinese, not the Indians, not the Africans, not the world of islam. It was Christianity.
Not Christianity from the Eastern Orthodox, due to constant badgering by isam they never had a chance to build.
Not Christianity from Rome, however they did have a minor hand in the process.
But it was a specific group of Christians, those of Great Britain

Communal systems like those in Africa, islam, and marxism NEVER developed the necessary infrastructure necessary to create the ideas that come out of our Magna Carta and patent law.
IT’s because of this that the sciences were expanded.
Originally Great Britain held the reigns, then along came the US of A with more resources, more land, mines ... and the root of more wealth
IT’s because of this that biomeds and every invention you see outside your window came from.
This is the reason for the expansion of the engish language
... the reason the word trades in USD
...the reason the language is the language of technology.

All of this came out of “islamophobia”... but as you are well aware, that is a misnomer.
There is a rational reason to fear islam as it is a part of the AntiChristian movement.
Shortened: Antichrist personified.


3 posted on 11/20/2020 4:58:37 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: himno hero

“Black Liberation Theology” is perfectly at home with Islam, borrowing heavily from that religion, as Nation of Islam is a prominent part of that “fusion”. Anti-American, anti-capitalist, and with moral authority that rests in a somewhat questionable definition of God as the Great and Terrible, sort of like a Wizard of Oz.

While Islam is not, strictly speaking, a Communist or Marxist spinoff, it still has the elements of a crude sort of socialism woven into its theology, and is at heart a command-and-control blueprint for militaristic regimes.


4 posted on 11/20/2020 5:21:01 AM PST by alloysteel ("The Best Is Yet to Come "- theme of 2020 RNC)
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To: alloysteel

Go read Carlos the Jackal for his opinion of how to bring down the west.
He acknowledged that Marxism by itself could not bring down the west , nor could islam; but an alliance, a coalition of the two could. Obama was both a marxist and a muslim... and a lying radical at that.

IF you go and research the architect of the 1979 Iranian revolution you will find that marxism was melded with islam as the porridge for the revolutionaries.

Both are over level political systems as they are tribal communal systems.
That is why they have such a grip in Africa.
Both are antithetical to progress.

AND there ARE a lot of people in Africa.
Worst part is the movement is alive in America in the black panthers... and we see that same fist active in the BLM.

... and Angela Davis continues to pop up or poop out....


5 posted on 11/20/2020 5:28:36 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: alloysteel

you are right...lol
Wright’s Christ was black too...and Cone is a communist.
These are obama’s intellectual peers and mentors.
How many years did he spend in Wrights church masquerading as a “christian”?


6 posted on 11/20/2020 5:31:34 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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