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October 16, 2008

Courtesy of http://www.1000sundays.com Obama & Black Liberation Theology Of The Church He Attended. Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has defended himself against charges of anti-Ameri...

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Obama & Black Liberation Theology Of The Church He Attended. Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has defended himself against charges of anti-Americanism and racism by referring to his foundational philosophy, the "black liberation theology" of scholars such as James Cone, who regard Jesus Christ as a "black messiah" and blacks as "the chosen people" who will only accept a god who assists their aim of destroying the "white enemy." "If God is not for us and against white people," writes Cone, "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." Wright has not talked to media since video segments of his sermons over the past decade surfaced last week including one in 2003 in which he encouraged blacks to damn America in God's name. But in a 2007 interview replayed on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes" show Friday, he repeatedly fended off Sean Hannity's questions with an appeal to authority, asking if the host had read any of the books of Cone, professor at New York's Union Theological Seminary, or Dwight Hopkins, professor at the University of Chicago's Divinity School, notes the Asia Times columnist who writes under the pseudonym Spengler." Obama, who has spoken of his pastor of more than 20 years as his mentor and moral compass, "wants to talk about what Wright is, rather than what he says," notes Spengler, by referring him as a "respected biblical scholar, and as someone who taught or lectured at seminaries across the country, from Union Theological Seminary to the University of Chicago." But Spengler says "that way lies apolitical quicksand." Cone, he points out, was the most prominent theologian in the "black liberation" school in the 1960s, teaching that Jesus Christ himself is black. The theologian explains: Christ is black therefore not because of some cultural or psychological need of black people, but because and only because Christ really enters into our world where the poor were despised and the black are, disclosing that he is with them enduring humiliation and pain and transforming oppressed slaves into liberating servants. Rather than viewing God as a sovereign being who does as he wills according to his purposes, Cone insists God must do what we want him to do, or we must reject him. What the black community wants, Cone says, is for God to assist in its goal of destroying "the white enemy." 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.

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HowardsGirl1985 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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I don't have a problem with blacks. I do have a problem with black supremists just like a have a problem with white supremists. We are not "Supreme" in any way. We were all created differently. If God wanted a "supreme" race, than He would've made us all one color, but he didn't.

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AMEN!

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I will leave you with this Classic James Cone,the Bigot quote

" 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 a brother of Christian love i tells ya !!

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From Cone's own mouth,

The demonic forces of racism are real for the black man. Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man the devil. The white structure of this American society, personified in every racist, must be at least part of what the New Testament meant by the demonic forces.

That whitey he must be the devil !!!

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From cone's own mouth

""[L]iberal whites want to be white and Christian at the same time; but they fail to realize that this approach is a contradiction in terms -- Christianity and whiteness are opposites."

wiseoneetest (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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Oh yes, i have read the filth Cone has written. Thats all it takes to realize the guy is a jew hating bigot

wiseoneetest (1 month ago) Show Hide

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As previously stated...Cone replaced the proliteriate with "black people" and the Bourgeoisie with "white people". Its really that simple. ALL liberation theology is based in Marxist theory...the two are inseparable

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First, just because you keep saying that doesn't make it true. (It's not.) Second, the overlap of Marxist theory and theology, when it does occur, is not inherently wrong/bad/evil/etc. (Nor are ideas about sharing wealth and God upending the powerful inherently wrong/bad/evil/etc. - ever read the Bible?)

Moreover, have you ever actually read any liberation theology? If so, what? If not, may I recommend some James Cone. ;)

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Black Liberation Theology,Like EVERY other Liberation theology is really a political ideology maquerading as Theology....ALL liberation theology has its roots in Marxism.ALL James cone did was replace the "Black people" for the Proliteriate in marxist theory.

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You are simply wrong. Cone's liberation theology owes nothing to Marx's dialectical materialism. Explain how Cone borrows Marx's theory please, and I will happily stand corrected.
Oh, and you spelled proletariat wrong.

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