04/28/2008 (7:52 pm)
An Attack On Wright is an Attack on the Black Church
If you attack Reverend Wright, it means you hate the Black Church. And don’t you forget it.
Michelle Malkin did a live-blog on the Reverend Wright’s speech before the National Press Club this morning. You’ve got to read this to believe it. Wright is worse than anything we could have imagined. “If God is not for black people and against white people, then God is a murderer and we’d better kill him.” That’s a quote from James Cone, leading proponent of Black Liberation Theology, and Wright says “I do not in any way disagree with James Cone. Jim is a personal friend of mine.”
Racial hatred has nothing in common with Christianity. Jesus died for everyone, regardless of race, because the Christian God loves every man, woman, and child more deeply than we’re capable of grasping, and forgives sins more heinous than we’re capable of understanding, for anybody who has the audacity to ask Him. The god who hates whites is not the Christian God, nor any god that I care to encounter.
What’s truly alarming about this is the number of times the press applauded this vile heretic, and even gave him standing ovations.
By the way — an attack on Wright has nothing to do with the black church. I’ve been to plenty of black churches. They’re not usually fountains of the sort of hate this man spews.
Update: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air and Robert McCain at The Other McCain both have great analyses of Wright’s NAACP speech from yesterday. Get the full story there.
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2 Comments »
Comment by Anon
‘if you do not love your brother, whom you have seen, how can you love God, Whom you have not seen?’
Sounds like we need to stop referring to that facility, and that ‘theology’ as ‘Christian’ or ‘church’
Comment by Phil
Anon,
While I understand the impulse, I’m actually convicted not to do that. I have anger issues myself, and have difficulty releasing offenses that were committed against me long ago; I can understand theological distortion produced by rage. Since I believe that I’ll be judged using the standard I’ve used to judge others, I’m not prepared to say categorically that Jeremiah Wright is not a Christian. Ultimately, that’s God’s job, but I’m inclined to think that he’s Christian, but badly distorted by anger.
I am, however, fully prepared to say that his view of God is not the Christian view, and not a position any Christian ought to take. Furthermore, I’m prepared to say that if Barack Obama believes anything remotely similar, I don’t want him within light years of the presidency.
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