Posted on 04/14/2012 1:48:19 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Not a word from Jesse Jackson. Not a peep from Al Sharpton. Not one black pastor stepped up this week to respond to the attack upon the Christian faith by Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam.
In separate appearances at predominantly black Alabama A&M University in Normal, Ala. and Miss ionary Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn., Farrakhan declared that black Christians are self-hating; that they are following the white man’s religion.
“See,” said Farrakhan, “you’ve got a song you sing in the church, ‘Ride on Kind Jesus.’” What it really means, he told his black audience, is “Ride on King White Folk.”
“You may not think you’re saying that,” Farrakhan admonished, “but your actions prove that you worship white people and hate yourself at the same time.”
Then the black Muslim firebrand dropped another incendiary bomb on his audience. The Christian church, he claimed, has conspired to hide the fact that Jesus Christ was a black man.
“Even Billy Graham said it years ago,” Farrakhan told his audience. “So why,” he asked, did the Christian church “make Him white when you knew he was black?”
I wish that the nation’s black clergy had responded to Farrakhan’s attack upon their Christian faith.
I wish that just one black pastor had pointed out that Billy Graham actually said, “Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia andEurope.”
I wish Rev. Sharpton had said that black Christians are not worshiping white people, as Farrakhan, the racial demagogue, asserted, but are worshiping the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I wish that Rev. Jackson had said that black Christians do not hate themselves, as the black Muslim leader accused, but are practicing the brotherly – colorblind – love their Lord and Saviour commanded.
Edmund Burke famously declared, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Black pastors had an opportunity this week to publicly condemn the evil, divisive remarks of Louis Farrakhan. But they did nothing. They said nothing.
He knows NOTHING of Islam. If he did he wouldn't be saying the things he does. "Jesus" is respected in the Muslim world. There are even stores named after Him--Issa.
It's not an uncommon last name among Arab Christians.
Louis Wolcott is almost 80 years old. He won't last much longer. The poison of his hatred must be eating him up. One could only hope.
Farrakan, Furqan in Arabic, seems to mean criterion. Just googled it.
I would say they already have.
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Not publicly yet.
Jesse’s and Al’s support for homosexuality should go over real well with the Mohammedan crowd.
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I always thought that the Mooses liked homosexuality.
In Islam, it’s OK to be a ‘top’, but unless the ‘bottom’ is pre-adult or a slave (or an animal), the ‘bottom’ risks a death penalty. Like the Nazis, butch gay is OK but fem gay merits death.
All black liberation churches are really mosques in disguise.
Farrakhan also goes by the title “minister,” but I don’t believe there are ministers in Islam.
I don't think so either. In Saudi Arabia, there were "mutawahs." Some young, sour Saudis were purported to go around with small sticks and beat on people who weren't obeying the rules, but I never saw them. I think they were an urban legend. I think the Iranians call their holy men imams.
I watched and listen to an hour-long special on Farrakhan once, a long time ago. It was interesting. He is a concert violinist, very smart but so FULL of anger and hatred.
He played Felix Mendelssohn's FAMOUS violin concerto JUST to prove that he didn't hate Jews.
However, Farrakhan didn't do his homework about Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was born to Jewish parents but was brought up WITHOUT any religion. As an adult he was baptized as Lutheran. Germany didn't become a country until 1871 so he wasn't a German as there was no Germany but he was German-speaking. "Jew" isn't a race or culture, necessarily, so Mendelssohn isn't necessarily a Jew. Doesn't matter to me, but Farrakhan was/is so caught up with hating Jews, would-be Jews, ancestors of Jews, that he can't see straight.
Farrakhan held his choler for a while but all through the hour I could see it start to emerge. By the end of the program he was his usual angry self, SO caustic, full of malice. It was like watching a human Satan, spewing venom. Ugly.
If they were followers of Jesus, they would know the Beautitudes: "Blessed are the peacemakers". They are the opposite of peacemakers.
look, what do you expect from a race of people who refuse to father their children? A backbone?
Calypso Louie has been peddling this nonsense for years. Jesus may not have been lily white, as depicted in most art from the Early Middle ages through the Renaissance, but he was certainly not black.
Jesus wasn't born in sub-Saharan Africa, or even Egypt. He looked like what natives of the area now known as Israel would have looked like 2000 years ago. He'd have looked much like any man who is now considered a 'Palestinian'.
Black ministers have stood by while their liberal friends have attacked chr*stianity, the bible, and common decency for fifty years. The Klan didn't consider them chr*stians, and obviously they don't really consider themselves chr*tians either. Like the Klan, their race is their religion.
I no longer believe most Blacks are chr*stian at all, or that their "churches" are churches. They do not consider white or non-Black chr*stians to be their brethren; the only brethren they recognize is fellow Blacks.
We'd actually all be better off if Blacks stopped claiming to be chr*stian and just left. They obviously have no interest in any political alliance with other chr*stians on moral or social issues. The only issues that exist for them are racial ones. They're a lost cause. They have joined the side of evil.
Most American Blacks would be more honest if they joined NOI which, ironically, is no more moslem than "Black liberation theology" is chr*stian. For example, the NOI rejects the objective G-d Who exists outside oneself as a white invention; for them the "real 'gxd'" is "within." Also the "resurrection of the dead" in their creed refers to resurrection of the "mind." They're basically eighteenth century European rationalists hypocritically running around claiming to hate the people from whom they have taken all their leftist ideas.
PS: Although Farrakhan pays lip service to opposing abortion and homosexuality he obviously doesn't mean a word of it. He explicitly endorses "the Black Left" in all his political screeds.
This is a historical tragedy. A people so wronged in the past has become a people who deserve punishment from Heaven. And the "moslems" and "chr*stians" among them are actually neither; they are merely self-worshipers running from an inferiority complex who can see nothing but the color of their own skins.
I am not a chr*stian myself, but it seems to be chr*stians would be happy to be rid of them. They are co-religionists in name only and enemies in fact. And I am most sorry that this is so.
Burke obviously never met either Sharpton nor Jackson, and his definition of "good men" would certainly NOT include them.
Mark
Because, if it weren't for whites buying those slaves, there wouldn't have been a market.
If no market, then no incentive to take them captive.
If no incentive to take live captives, then they would have just killed their enemies instea...OH! Never mind. *<];-')
Exactly -- Jesus was brown :-P
But more to the point, in black societies He is depicted as black, in Nordic as a blonde blue-eyed man, in the ancient Church of the East in Mongolia etc. as a man with Oriental features. He was every man so all of these depictions are valid
” A black man carried His cross.” — Simon the Cyrene was from Cyrene, modern day Libya. This was a Greek city and had a large Jewish population. Most likely also a large Berber population and possibly also Italic and Punic. Maybe at a shot Ethiopian. But no sub-saharan African.
I couldn't agree more! Normal people are distressed whenever innocent people suffer. These guys rub their hands together with glee that they have another "cause" with which to blame the white man and stir up strife as well as keep their names in the news. A true man of God seeks to bring peace, forgiveness and reconciliation. Further proof that neither of these men really ARE men of God. Their god is themselves. They are so far removed from what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to do that they have no business whatsoever invoking his name. If he was still around, he would condemn them along with Farrakhan.
according to Islam, Adam was a Moslem. yeah, yeah, just one more of the strange tales... they actually believe that... And according to the Koran, Jesus was a Moslem who said (and it’s noted in the Koran and Hadiths) “I’m not God” — funnily enough no-one noted this down for the 640 years before Islam...
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