Title: Reverend Wright - In Context (full video) Source:
Crooks and Liars URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T6-O8GIylQ Published:Mar 23, 2008 Author:Reverend Jeremiah Wright Post Date:2008-03-23 13:15:55 by Arator Keywords:Wright, is, right Views:485 Comments:36
What many miss about Reverend Wright is that he is what one would call a peculiar theology of black liberation.....not unlike many Christians who do not understand who or what a Christian Zionist is.....
The peculiar theology of black liberation By Spengler
Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a "black messiah" and blacks as "the chosen people". At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy.
What played out last week on America's television screens was a clash of two irreconcilable cultures, the posture of "black liberation theology" and the mainstream American understanding of Christianity. Obama, who presented himself as a unifying figure, now seems rather the living embodiment of the clash.
One of the strangest dialogues in American political history ensued on March 15 when Fox News interviewed Obama's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, of Chicago's Trinity Church. Wright asserted the authority of the "black liberation" theologians James Cone and Dwight Hopkins:
What played out last week on America's television screens was a clash of two irreconcilable cultures, the posture of "black liberation theology" and the mainstream American understanding of Christianity.
#6. To: Peppa, Sam Houston, robnoel, Arator, richard9151, Cynicom, christine, Jethro Tull (#3)(Edited)
There are powerful elements of this message. I agree with him that our foreign policy needs restraint. But when he brings up the European settlement of the North American continent, he crosses a line for me.
And don't think John McCain does not cross a similar line for me with S. 1378, as well. They're both attacking the foundations of our way of life.
But when he brings up the European settlement of the North American continent, he crosses a line for me.
I'm rooting for re-sovereigned Lakota Republic in the northern plains. Freedom is fostered by rival sovereignties and extinguished by conquest and consolidation. We are all Indians these days. To hell with empire.
When Senator Obama's preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association. But when my late father--Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer--denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.
Every Sunday thousands of right wing white preachers (following in my father's footsteps) rail against America's sins from tens of thousands of pulpits. They tell us that America is complicit in the "murder of the unborn," has become "Sodom" by coddling gays, and that our public schools are sinful places full of evolutionists and sex educators hell-bent on corrupting children. They say, as my dad often did, that we are, "under the judgment of God." They call America evil and warn of immanent destruction. Obama's minister's shouted "controversial" comments were very much like things pastors on the right say too.
Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation's sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the Republican Party. (This was while I was my father's sidekick before I dropped out of the evangelical movement altogether.) We were rewarded for our "stand" by people such as Congressman Jack Kemp, the Fords, Reagan and the Bush family. The top Republican leadership depended on preachers and agitators like us to energize their rank and file. No one called us un-American.