I submit that you are in grave error; that so-called “black theology” fraudulently attempts to masquarade as Christianity to hide its political content so deeply rooted in Marxist-inspired “theology.” “Theology” as used here is a big lie.

“Reverend” Wright is a good example of it, and the so-called “tradition” of black ministers politicizing their homilies (it’s OK to do because it’s THEIR tradition, even though the left universally condemns conservative churches for merely hinting at the same practice) is nothing more than conducting political rallies in a church.

I patiently listened to your video, and found noting that proivides contect to Wright’s remarks, which merely prove how anti-American and racist to the core he truly is, and your”long-play” video only provides “context” if you swallow his garbage-laden diatribe as true. Obviously you and most lefties will do so; I utterly reject it for the tripe it really is, recognizing it from my days as a hard-left street radical form the 60s & 70s. We talked trash like that all the time then because we liked to hear ourselves talk. Not much has changed on the left side of the aisle, I see.

It still boils down to his inappropriately (from a Christian perspective) using God’s name in vain to judge and condemn others whose political views he impugns, and that would include those who find his across-the-board condemnation of America to be lopsided and based in the assumption the America is pretty much an evil nation.

Well, there are plenty of other nations (all of them, really) who fail as badly or worse than America. But lying lefties have been foisting the fiction for years that America is uniquely and totally guilty of crimes against humanity – only from the left’s perspective, however, in which the U.S can’t ever get a fair “trial” because that would defeat the agenda of the left.

Wright’s pretty pathetic as an American. He’d even be more pathetic if he were a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Oh well, many are called but few are chosen.

Regardless, I think this adds up to the liklihood that we’re going to be able to destroy the empty suit that is Obama by tossing the ball back to Hilary for a while. Both candidates are severely flawed, and will be difficult to elect in November after they beat each other bloody between now and then.

I used to wonder which one would be easier to beat (I think it’s him right now), but if we can keep the volley going (and hope alive in Hilary’s camp) then the prospect of a brokered Dem convention might well hand us what would have to be seen as an improbable victory in November. I will truly savor this, and I pray for it daily.

God bless you.

Phil,

To say black theology is inspired by Marxism is a spectacular misunderstanding. And the way you continue to respond makes me wonder if you have read any of the theology.

Black Liberation Theology started with the first slave. A bit pre-marx really. Or you could continue back and say that liberation started with Jesus – the one who was tortured while not responding in kind, not as the one who was the torturer. Liberation is about the worth of people and that they ought not be treated worthless. This is very biblical; it starts with a creator God and ends with a just God.

Perhaps this would call into question, in similar ways to Marxism, an inherently racist economic structures and indeed it does. This isn’t the left, nor the right, this is prophetic word that says God is not for the bully or “powerful,” but seeks justice and peace, the peace of plough shares and corrected relationships. And really, perhaps if you’re confusing the call for justice with the left, than maybe the right lacks a great deal or opposes what it should not. After all, isn’t there the stance in catholicism of pro-life – against abortion as well as war? But in America those “positions” are split between two parties.

Your categorization of Black Liberation Theology is far from uncharitable, it attempts to marginalize something that quite clearly draws honestly from the biblical text. It is a complex theology born out of intense suffering. Suffering on level of mass kidnappings, rape, murder, torture, economic suppression – all ways of trying to strike immobilizing fear into a community. Sounds like what the Romans did to the Jews. So deal with your complicity – of being the Roman at the foot of the cross – before you condemn those whom are still kept down by the status quo.

Thanks, D.W., for the response. I quit taking him seriously when I saw the word “Marxism.”

like you, it just sounded like the truth to me. i didn’t get what the big deal was. the reaction to the sermons of wright have been pretty depressing to me.

best wishes,
LoA.

I’m a McCain supporter, but I also feel that Wright’s comments have been taken out of context to an extent. http://oldfordroad.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/is-wright-right/

If I heard that sermon in my church, I’d be a very happy man.

[...] That hypocrisy is real of course, but unlike the 9/11 comments spewed by Falwell and Robertson, Wright’s sermon isn’t “crazy shit”; it’s just true, as a pretty insightful piece at Infoshop News argues. A lengthy excerpt from the piece follows…. There is nothing “inappropriate” or offensive about either the wording or the ideas behind Rev. Wright’s remarks, that is, unless you find the truth about life in America inappropriate or offensive. Rich white people do indeed own and control this country and its popular culture; Hillary Clinton has probably never been called a nigger, nor has she ever been called anything similar (”WASP” has no sting and “cracker” is pretty stale; “monster,” “bitch” and “cunt” don’t count here because they are not specific to life in America); the American state did indeed bring the terrorist violence of September 11th upon itself (its called “retaliation”); the American state did indeed kill millions of innocent people by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki (one city was already one too many); the American state has certainly allowed its ally and proxy, Israel, the freedom to do almost anything it wants in its low-intensity war against the Palestinian people; the Reagan Administration did indeed consider the African National Congress to be a “Communist” group and thus supported apartheid instead; many people were indeed “indignant” over the September 11th attacks, as if their outrage were more a matter of principle (”how dare they!”) than a direct response to the concrete instance (using hijacked planes as missiles, and thus forcibly turning their passengers into suicide-bombers). [...]

How sad. While some of Wright’s talk is true, he continues the fallacy-ridden rhetoric of the liberal mind. Bill Clinton was not a friend of black America. He used them to further his cause and has done nothing but keep them relying on government help. Bush has indeed held a job. As if being a ministry in a Protestant church is more of a “job” than a governor. Bush is not against helping the lower class. Affirmative action is a short-sighted solution. I can go on and on.

Is Bush the best president ever? No. But let’s not speak in the gross, emotional, generalities and call them truth.

If I heard that sermon in my church, I’d realize I wandered into the wrong place.