The Audacity of Truth

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The Audacity of Truth
Race; Posted on: 2008-04-20
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Black Liberation Theology and Obama's church

Barack Obama, Man of Faith
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4248

The Peculiar Theology of Black Liberation
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3838

Despite the efforts of most of the main stream media (and Obama himself) who
are trying to spin the incidents regarding Barack Obama's preacher into
something acceptable to the American people, along with his speech regarding
race, by doing some individual research it becomes clear that the spin will
simply just not wash...

The Trinity Church of Christ, to which Obama belongs, subscribes to Black
Liberation Theology, which we shall see does not represent those things, and
therefore gives voice to Reverned Wright's and others hateful dialog.

I believe that Obama will not leave that Church for one simple and obvious
reason. Despite his new found disgust in "some" terminology that Wright
employed, Obama in all likelihood agrees with the theology that the church
teaches. He is raising his kids in it, and intends to stay with it....

Obama is staying with the Trinity Church and continues to remain close to
Wright, despite Wright's disgusting statements...and to be sure, these
statements are not statements from one or two sermons alone. No, Reverend
Wright is an ardent supporter and preacher of Black Liberation Theology which
is at the heart of who he is and what he has said.

This same Black Liberation theology subscribed to by Trinity is clearly what
Obama subscribes to. His actions in this regard tell us so. He's been going
and donating to that particular church for over twenty yerars. As stated, he
is raising his kids in it, immersing them...baptising them into it. And
Reverend Wright has done the immersing and baptising.

While it is true that that church has done a lot of good in the black
community, helping them to rise socially, taking care of their needy, it is
also true that the underlying doctrine must be understood in order to bring
into focus the good it does and reconcile it against the hate its preacher
also spreads.

That theology can easily be reconciled to its good actions in the black
community and the hateful rhetoric it employs by simply studying it. This is
something that most of the main stream media has either not done, or refuses
to do, because the underlying doctrine is so repulsive that it should negate
any major candidate in any way closely associated with it...and that is
something that most of the media and the DNC do not want to do. Again, Black
Liberation Theology is the admitted theology of Reverend Wright and the
congregation. It is something that has helped form Obama and his views and it
is therefore worthwhile to understand if we intend to consider him for the
office of the Presidency.

It is not your traditional Christian message in the least.

Wright admits that he preaches his brand of that theology which is based, in
part, on the works of one James Hal Cone, the recognized pioneer in the black
brand of this theology, and someone who has been the Charles Augustus Briggs
Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary
in the City of New York.

Wright refered to Cone and his "pioneering" efforts in his contentious
interveiw with Sean Hannity on Fox News in 2007.

Cone himself is much written and describes this theology in his book A Black
Theology for Liberation, which is one of many books he has written. One
notable quote in that book decribing Cone's Black Liberation Theology is as
follows:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the
goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people,
then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology
is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology
will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the
white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power,
which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by
any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy
activity, we must reject his love."

That theology accepts a perverted and wrested interpretation of Jesus Christ
where it describes him as a poor black man (or man of color) living under
oppressive white European rule (the Romans) and that he was about social
change and bringing down government. He therefore meets Cone's (and adherants
to this perverted view of our Savior) criteria for a God who supports their
black power insurgency against what they describe as the ruling rich white men
and women in America.

Cone sarcastically states in the book:

"There is no use for a God who loves white oppressors the same as oppressed
blacks. We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn
the other cheek and go the second mile."

As if this love, and Christ's own words regarding it are somehow a construct
of the white race to keep people of color down. Disgusting, and really very,
very tragic that people are being raised on this hate...because that is
exactly what it is...and Cone says so.

"Black hatred is the black man's strong aversion to white society. No black
man living in white America can escape it... While it is true that blacks do
hate whites, black hatred is not racism. "

Thus Black Liberation Theology changes Christ, the God of peace and love, into
a God of their own construction, a God of hate and revenge, who is hell bent
on political and social change at any cost and who supports that hate and
"revenge" to suit their needs.

This is the message about Obama's "church" (and others like it) that needs to
be spread. I repeat, I do not believe it is at all subscribed to by most
blacks in this country, and certainly not by society at large. But it has been
hidden, growing...festering, and flying under the radar in these radical
churches and because of political correctness it has been heretofore
untouchable. But now the cat is out of the bag.

It is shocking, is is disgusting...and it is dangerous.

Continue
http://www.jeffhead.com/blacklibtheology.htm

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