"Reverend" Wright is Wrong!!!
I doubt I'll be the only one using this title, but I like it, so I'm using it anyway.
Recently the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of imploding Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama, put himself front and center in the media to reply to criticisms of his positions. In doing so, he has dragged the name of Christ through the mud, embarrassed Obama, and possibly irremediably hurt Obama's campaign. After trying to soft pedal the issue for a while, Obama finally had to distance himself from Wright unequivocally.
I shed no tears over his effect on Obama. It's fun to watch the Democrats squirm. But few things rouse me to reaction more than his misrepresentations about Christ and the church. Here are some statements attributed to Wright.
* The US is responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
* "God D--- America!"
* You can't criticize one of my sermons unless you have heard the whole sermon.
* "His people" came over on the lower decks of the ships.
* Black children are all right-brained, and learn differently from white children.
* An attack on Wright is really an attack on the black church.
* Some (presumably white) people just don't understand the black church, its history, or its "prophetic theology."
My responses:
* The US is responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
* "God D--- America!"
"Reverend" Wright resents his patriotism being questioned and points out that he served in the military. Well, so did Timothy McVeigh, so that proves nothing. If saying "God D---- America" does not qualify as unpatriotic, I don't know what does.
Maybe "Reverend" Wright would appreciate sharing the fate of the fictional character Philip Nolan in "The Man Without A Country."
* You can't criticize one of my sermons unless you have heard the whole sermon.
"Reverend" Wright loves to whine about being taken out of context. Well, then, he should not say things that make bad sound bytes. He can't evade questions about what he says by criticizing the questioner for not having heard the whole sermon. I don't have to roll in mud to recognize that someone else has mud on his clothes.
* "His people" came over on the lower decks of the ships.
The whole "we came over on slave ships" business is getting tiresome. There is not one black American alive today who came over on a slave ship. Slavery was a sad and sorry episode in our country's history, but it is over. If "Reverend" Wright is so upset about how his ancestors got here from Africa, maybe he would like to return there.
* Black children are all right-brained, and learn differently from white children.
"Reverend" Wright had better be careful about this one. One might argue from this that if they learn so differently, perhaps they should be taught in separate schools. If a white person were to make such a blanket generalization, it (and he) would be labeled as racist. Why isn't the same thing said here? OK, I'll say it: this statement by "Reverend Wright" is racist.
* An attack on me is really an attack on the black church.
Oh, really? Who appointed "Reverend" Wright pope of the black church? And since when is there a monolithic black church? There are black Baptists, Pentecostals, Methodists, and Catholics, just to name a few. And there are lots of variations among those. Do they all agree with "Reverend" Wright?
* Some (presumably white) people just don't understand the black church, its history, or its "prophetic theology."
It's easy to make this kind of ad hominem argument: if you don't agree with me, you must not understand me, so I can dismiss you. One might just as well say that "Reverend" Wright does not understand the "white" church since he is part of the "black" church. It's interesting that it's OK to talk about the "black" church, but a "white" church would be discriminatory. Whether we understand or not, does that justify such bigotry toward us? And if we need to be educated, we are a lot more likely to listen if you approach us with kindness rather than confrontation.
I find it most interesting that not once during all this have I even heard a mention of church-state separation. If a white pastor, say John McCain's pastor, were making inflammatory statements, you can bet the liberals would be screaming "separation of church and state" and telling him to keep his mouth shut.
All of this drags the name of Christ through the mud. Where is the focus on Christ in "Reverend" Wright's antics? It just gives the infidels something more to make fun of and exploit.
Recently the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of imploding Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama, put himself front and center in the media to reply to criticisms of his positions. In doing so, he has dragged the name of Christ through the mud, embarrassed Obama, and possibly irremediably hurt Obama's campaign. After trying to soft pedal the issue for a while, Obama finally had to distance himself from Wright unequivocally.
I shed no tears over his effect on Obama. It's fun to watch the Democrats squirm. But few things rouse me to reaction more than his misrepresentations about Christ and the church. Here are some statements attributed to Wright.
* The US is responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
* "God D--- America!"
* You can't criticize one of my sermons unless you have heard the whole sermon.
* "His people" came over on the lower decks of the ships.
* Black children are all right-brained, and learn differently from white children.
* An attack on Wright is really an attack on the black church.
* Some (presumably white) people just don't understand the black church, its history, or its "prophetic theology."
My responses:
* The US is responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
* "God D--- America!"
"Reverend" Wright resents his patriotism being questioned and points out that he served in the military. Well, so did Timothy McVeigh, so that proves nothing. If saying "God D---- America" does not qualify as unpatriotic, I don't know what does.
Maybe "Reverend" Wright would appreciate sharing the fate of the fictional character Philip Nolan in "The Man Without A Country."
* You can't criticize one of my sermons unless you have heard the whole sermon.
"Reverend" Wright loves to whine about being taken out of context. Well, then, he should not say things that make bad sound bytes. He can't evade questions about what he says by criticizing the questioner for not having heard the whole sermon. I don't have to roll in mud to recognize that someone else has mud on his clothes.
* "His people" came over on the lower decks of the ships.
The whole "we came over on slave ships" business is getting tiresome. There is not one black American alive today who came over on a slave ship. Slavery was a sad and sorry episode in our country's history, but it is over. If "Reverend" Wright is so upset about how his ancestors got here from Africa, maybe he would like to return there.
* Black children are all right-brained, and learn differently from white children.
"Reverend" Wright had better be careful about this one. One might argue from this that if they learn so differently, perhaps they should be taught in separate schools. If a white person were to make such a blanket generalization, it (and he) would be labeled as racist. Why isn't the same thing said here? OK, I'll say it: this statement by "Reverend Wright" is racist.
* An attack on me is really an attack on the black church.
Oh, really? Who appointed "Reverend" Wright pope of the black church? And since when is there a monolithic black church? There are black Baptists, Pentecostals, Methodists, and Catholics, just to name a few. And there are lots of variations among those. Do they all agree with "Reverend" Wright?
* Some (presumably white) people just don't understand the black church, its history, or its "prophetic theology."
It's easy to make this kind of ad hominem argument: if you don't agree with me, you must not understand me, so I can dismiss you. One might just as well say that "Reverend" Wright does not understand the "white" church since he is part of the "black" church. It's interesting that it's OK to talk about the "black" church, but a "white" church would be discriminatory. Whether we understand or not, does that justify such bigotry toward us? And if we need to be educated, we are a lot more likely to listen if you approach us with kindness rather than confrontation.
I find it most interesting that not once during all this have I even heard a mention of church-state separation. If a white pastor, say John McCain's pastor, were making inflammatory statements, you can bet the liberals would be screaming "separation of church and state" and telling him to keep his mouth shut.
All of this drags the name of Christ through the mud. Where is the focus on Christ in "Reverend" Wright's antics? It just gives the infidels something more to make fun of and exploit.
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