Black Clerical Fascism: "Black Liberation Theology"

[jordan179]

The following interesting dissection by Kathy Shaidle of "Black Liberation Theology," the philosophy of the now-notorious Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who is the trusted friend and mentor of Barack Obama

Comments

[eric_hinkle]

I do wonder just how everyone would be reacting if Obama was (a) white, (b) Republican, and (c) came from a Christian Identity background. Would he even stand a snowball's chance at getting elected? I think not.

[jordan179]

I do wonder just how everyone would be reacting if Obama was (a) white, (b) Republican, and (c) came from a Christian Identity background. Would he even stand a snowball's chance at getting elected? I think not.

You're quite right, and this "free pass" for black misdeeds is one of the last vestiges of white racism -- what it means is that whites aren't holding blacks to the same standards as they would their fellow whites, because they feel that it's silly to expect such high standards of inferiors. As someone who is not racist, I hold everyone to the same standards.

[mosinging1986]

This is what confuses me the most! I don't care if it's a black person saying the kinds of things he said, or a white person saying such things -the statements are wrong and false and you'd think EVERYONE would be disgusted by it.

To see it not work out that way has left me wanting to pound my head on the floor. I just don't understand it.

[steltek]

Racist "idolatry" is a particularly apt term, because as in all forms of Statism, this kind of Religious Statism ultimately seeks to replace Christ with the State as the author of salvation. The state, for them, becomes a ravenous god comprised of stone buildings, attended by a legion of bureaucratic priests, and sated upon a continual sacrifice of increasingly exorbitant taxes. And unimaginable calamities, of course, will befall us should we ever fail to bring this state-god ever greater offerings!

One does not need to resort to clever or obscure quotations of scripture to denounce this kind of acrobatic harmonization of Marxism with Christianity, as the applicable passage is quite well known: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

[mosinging1986]

After seeing the reaction on my flist when I first posted on this guy, I have lost all hope for humanity. Here was something that I figured anyone, all politics aside, would agree was horrible. And yet people excused it! I figured the fact that this church claims to be some kind of Christian church would at least get some disgust. NOTHING.

And the guy said pretty much some of the nonsense that, (was it?) Falwell and Robertson said about 9/11 being our fault or God's judgment or whatever. I figured THAT would make people denounce him, as they denounced those two. Again, NOTHING.

For the life of me, I just don't understand it.

[cutelildrow]

Frankly, Obama's popularity scares the shit out of me. First time I even heard about him, my first impression was 'pompous, reverse racist windbag' and came off as rather insincere. That impression has not changed, and reading about the defectives he keeps around him does not help at all (like his preacher. Gods.)

[oronoda]

I'm suddenly reminded of an episode of the Boondocks when Martin Luther King Jr. came back to modern day, "Will you N*grs PLEASE shut the hell up!"

I read a good article written by a Jewish movie maker who wrote a letter to Obama relating his experiences growing up with Holocaust survivors who had so much hatred towards the Germans. he felt the same way until he met a German and she told him how much shame she felt for something her grandparents did. What he said was, "Even if once upon a time your people were discriminated against by another group does not give you the right to hold resentment towards them. And just because they suffered doesn't give you an excuse to excuse their behavior."

[irked_indeed]

*shakes head* Crazy stuff.

This is not only racist but megalomaniacal -- if "God" is real then obviously He is whatever He is, and beyond the ability of random ranting preachers to "kill!" A God whom one could theoretically "kill" by refusing to "accept" is obviously no God at all. This strikes me as rather elementary logic, rather than deep theolog.

A very good point- but a lot of people miss the idea that God is as He is, regardless of man's opinions on the subject. (Or if there is no God, then no amount of wishing will make Him appear.) This shows up a lot in the less-crazy-sounding "Well, my God would never send someone to hell!" arguments.