Analysis: Role of Religion in Remaining Primaries

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• TerryH

  Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:21 am : 0 : 0 Flag

  Regarding this issue of this rev. Wright's comments, has anyone heard any comments from Jesse Jackson on this issue? If so please direct me to the site. Thanks.

• TerryH

  Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:19 am : 0 : 0 Flag

  Hey Hinnis,
  Excellent post and info, Thanks. It is ridiculous for anyone to be so naive as to believe that Obama attend Wright's church and believe that he walked away not believing as his "spiritual advisor" advised. It is kind of like thinking you can hang around a mechanic shop for 20 years and not getting any grease on you. It doesn't happen. The day my pastor starts speking messages of condemnation regarding anyone is the day my family and I walk out and never return.

• BooGieONdown

  Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:08 pm : 1 : 1 Flag

  stop calling Obama a muslim due to his name. cmon on now

• BooGieONdown

  Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:06 pm : 1 : 1 Flag

  i prayed and voted for Prez Bush and i am stand by him because I believe God wanted him in office. I know things are peachy creame but they never are and the public is able to hear more about it nowadays.
  Obama views are far from Gods views im confused how christians can vote for him.
  i am also tired of terms like black christians...who cares .....their christians.
  
  gut how can a christain side with abortion, and sins like that?

• Harald Hardrada

  Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:08 pm : 1 : 2 Flag

  Yes, Barack Hussein Obama is a muslim. I will do whatever I can to keep him out of the white house.

• mikehow

  Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:53 pm : 1 : 3 Flag

  christianity was a reason why george w bush got elected. pat robertson even supported this so-called 'christian'! look what happened to this nation - stuck in iraq, thousands dead, thousands wounded, $1.8 trillion dollars wasted, disrespected the US constitution. we, who question the competence of this president, have to suffer for the so-called 'morality' demanded by others.

• Hinnis

  Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:58 am : 1 : 2 Flag

  I agree that it is inappropriate to falsely claim that Obama is a Muslim, although I don’t believe that being a Muslim in and of itself should be anything about which someone should be ashamed. I do think, however, it is important for America to better understand the kind of “Christianity” which has so fascinated Obama for the last 20 years. Obama claims to belong to a Christian Church called Trinity United Church. He considers the just-retired pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, to be his “mentor and spiritual advisor.” According to the church’s website, their members are “unashamedly Black and unashamedly Christian,” and swear allegiance to the mother continent, Africa. Obama’s church gave the racist and Jew-hating Louis Farrakhan a “lifetime achievement award” last November. Rev. Wright teaches Black Theology, and thinks about everything pretty much in terms of black versus white. He called 9/11, for example, a “wake-up call to white people.” Commenting on the recent murder of Natalie Holloway, he decried the press coverage by stating that “one 18—year-old white girl from Alabama gets drunk on a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign country, and that stays in the news for months.” Rev. Wright likes to throw around the name of James Cone a lot when it comes to his theology. James Cone is another proponent of Black Theology. Here are just a couple of James Cone's quotes: (1) "To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people." [Black Theology and Black Power, pp. 139-140]. (2) "While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 15] (3) "All white men are responsible for white oppression." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 24] (4) "Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man "the devil." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 40] (5) "If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist, the white church seems to be a manifestation of it." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 73] **** Need I go on? These are the kinds of concepts that Obama has been soaking up for 20 years. The focal concern or center of black theology is the white oppression of blacks. Therefore, the usual theological discussions about God, Christ, and salvation are much less relevant. Although I respect anyone’s right to belong to any religion they wish, this does not sound like a positive form of "Christianity" for any of those who are not members of the "chosen people." And, maybe Obama needs to be a little more candid about the brand of "Christianity" to which he adheres.

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