How the Leftist Churches Set a Time Bomb for the Democrats

American Thinker ^ | March 26, 2008 | James Lewis

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Until the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama's spiritual mentor in Black Liberation Theology, popped out of the woodwork, I didn't even know about BLT -- Black Liberation Theology. But the doctrines of Black Liberation have been preached since 1966 in black churches, with the enthusiastic support of white churches of the Left, notably the United Church of Christ. The Rev. Wright runs an official UCC church.

Though I am not a professional theologian, I daresay that Jesus would not, repeat not, approve of BLT. Because Black Liberation Theology seems to go straight against every single word in the Sermon on the Mount. Odd that the UCC has never noticed that over the last fifty years.

In fact, the liberal churches have bestowed great influence and prestige on the inventor of Black Liberation Theology, a Dr. James Hal Cone. Writes Dr. Cone, among other things,

* "Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him."

* "All white men are responsible for white oppression."

* "While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism."

* "Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man "the devil.""

* "The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples."

* "We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile. What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal."

Apparently liberal religious authorities like those at the United Church of Christ love this preaching so much that they have made Dr. Cone a professor at the Union Theological Seminary, the "Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology." It is a stamp of official approval for a peddler of race hatred.

What would Jesus say? Well, we may never know that, but in a month we'll know what Pennsylvania Democrats will say. And if they turn thumbs down on that grandchild of Black Liberation Theology, Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves. Including the Churches of the Left, which have reveled in rage-mongering radical chic since the Sixties.

If you've ever wondered why black people in America have had such a hard time rising in society, even after slavery ended in 1865, even after the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, even after affirmative action tilted the playing field in their favor, the answer has to be found in the doctrines that have been preached to blacks by their most powerful leaders. If Black Liberation Theology is to be believed, blacks can never make it on their own. They have to rely on a separatist, rage-filled ideology, supported whole-heartedly by white Leftist churches.

The Left has a long, long habit of shafting the very people is purports to love. Instead, the Left only empowers Leftist elites. Look at the history of the Soviet Union, of Maoist China, of Fidel Castro. Who profited from those regimes except the elites, dining on caviar while ordinary people starved? Today Hugo Chavez is squandering Venezuela's oil wealth on his personal ego trips. It is the poor who suffer from Chavez' caudillismo.

What the Church of the Left have done to poor blacks is just like that. Instead of supporting messages of hope and strength, they celebrated the rage demagogues who keep people in thrall. "Black Liberation" is an enslavement of the mind. If you keep black people popping with anger at whites, half a century after the end of Jim Crow, you are not helping them. You are hurting them.

For the Democrats, who have knowingly supported this corruption of the poor for decades, the churches of Left have set a time bomb. Next month we'll see if it explodes.

Maybe it's Divine justice.

James Lewis blogs at dangeroustimes.wordpress.com/

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* "While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism."

Huh?

[DuncanWaring]

Further discussed yesterday here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991688/posts

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Obama’s concern politically should be that Cone’s Black Liberation Theology can not co-exist with the racial integration that is so much a part of his “plan “ So either he is ignorant of the theology of Rev Wright, which i strongly doubt. Or he is trying to hoodwink us, which seems more likely.

[levotb]

An excellent piece by a man I had not heard of before. Hats off fr. this conservative to Mr. James Lewis!

[PROCON]

Further discussed yesterday here:

Huh, did a search so I wouldn't double-post!

Sorry!

[Kackikat]

BLT=BUZZHEADS

[MHGinTN]

“Apparently liberal religious authorities like those at the United Church of Christ love this preaching so much that they have made Dr. Cone a professor at the Union Theological Seminary ...” LIberalism has no room for the Christ of the New Testament. Barry Obama ought think hard about what it means to claim to be a Christian yet be so deeply into this sort of hate. It is no more Christian than the KKK was.

[ronnie raygun]

Is it me or does the liberal democratic party attract support, coddle and embrace the drek of American society. White, black and all in between, these groups of misfits are actually moving to the front of the line. Is this who and what we want to lead us into the next 4 years?

[txzman]

Obama is toast.

[PROCON]

Obama is toast.

I certainly hope so!

[WashingtonSource]

No, it is not you. The Dhimmi leftists champion the dregs of society, the misfits and the parasites who do noting but take and never give — such as trial lawyers and union leaders and National Association of Teachers.

[tbw2]

I get offended on the assumption that my two year old (white) son is being labelled as the source of all evil in the world, though I doubt even one of his ancestors could be traced to slave owning in the past 200 years. Even then, he’d have more Cherokee blood than “slave owner” blood.
How is this the voice for a “Uniter”?
“Vote for me, you evil whitey!”

[Grampa Dave]

Thomas Sowell: "It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious. Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time—and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it."

Hussein Obama’s racist pseudo minister has turned the Dems' run for President into party's train wreck!

Devastatingly, Shelby Steele writes: “Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own (white) mother."

Just What Did Obama Know About Wright's Past Sermons? (Plenty)

“Barack Obama either agreed with what was preached from the Trinity pulpit, or he tuned it out and stayed around pretending to for political reasons. To say he stayed for 20 years but doesn't agree with Wright's preaching is incredible denial. It'd be like a man buying White Sox season tickets for 20 years, attending the games, and saying he's not a fan.”

Obama’s supporters want us to ignore this story… just push it under the rug. While they’ll align Republicans with any obscure pastor who does or says something controversial, they’re trying to convince us that Obama’s 20-year long close relationship with Wright, including his effective endorsement of him, his church and rhetoric with a $22,500 donation in 2006 is irrelevant.

“When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obama’s deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.”

“Wright says that blacks can’t be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesn’t salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.”

Here is the link to the Star Spangled Banner video with obama standing there without his hand over his heart...

Notice her ear ring!

[PROCON]

Thanks again Dave!! :)

[Grampa Dave]

Thank you.

[Gumdrop]

Just what kind of logic says that Obama is not responsible for listening to his racist pastor for 20 years, yet all white people are still responsible for slavery that was stopped in 1863 by a Republican President?

[The_Media_never_lie]

* "While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism."

So that is why Rev. Wright could preach GD America from the pulpit? I don't think so.

[ApplegateRanch]

See? SEE what White-Devil critical and criticising thinking ands literacy gets you? You fall into the trap; the TRAP, I say, of rational ratiocination!

Now, the typical po' black BLT preacher knows that that is a twisted, racist statement, because, not only would he never ask it, he has no sane, rational answer for it!