What the media doesn't show about Rev. Wright
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Stumble ThisThe short clip implies that the point of the sermon was that we brought the attacks of 9/11 on ourselves.
Turns out that in context, Rev. Wright was making a much more dangerous point than that -- God favors the peaceful, and warns against those who would lead us into war in a blind, vengeful rage.
Turns out that in context, Rev. Wright was making a much more dangerous point than that -- God favors the peaceful, and warns against those who would lead us into war in a blind, vengeful rage.
Can our media get any more ridiculous?
Why this is? Because the media hasn't really backed up it's claim, they've merely repeated it over and over and over and over until many believe it to be so. (They do this all the time and we are all subject to it's influence.)
This is a smart, forward thinking, compassionate man, who is miles ahead of media punditry when it comes to domestic policy, war and race. After watching this clip, it's easy to see why the media and political establishment fears him.
I guess at the very least it's nice to see establishment attempt to justify it's fears, which is an important prerequisite to eventually confronting them.
Lately, it seems like we live in bizzaro America, where concern about racism = racism and seeking to improve your country = anti-American.
just have to find a great pastor.
Good speech on opening your eyes and focusing on making yourself a better Christian instead of forcing judgement on other people.
Blowback
Wonderful, now scores of you younglings here on Atheisift gather behind supposed "biblical preaching." Please pick a side, kthxbai?
Tell us about the good old days, oldling. You know, when a black man knew his place, and gay "losers" stayed in the closet for fear of being arrested or beaten to death. Tell us about how the good white Christian preachers in the Bible Belt used the Good Book to justify slavery and racism. These Atheisifters need to know what it is to be the same kind of upstanding Christian that you are.
When was this sermon given?
>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
Wonderful, now scores of you younglings here on Atheisift gather behind supposed "biblical preaching." Please pick a side, kthxbai?
Tell us about the good old days, oldling. You know, when a black man knew his place, and gay "losers" stayed in the closet for fear of being arrested or beaten to death. Tell us about how the good white Christian preachers in the Bible Belt used the Good Book to justify slavery and racism. These Atheisifters need to know what it is to be the same kind of upstanding Christian that you are.
Ah yes, it's the religion of Convenience. Perhaps if the preachers of old were wrong once, another could be wrong now? But that would be inconvenient huh. Pick a side son, pick a side.
I know you are, but what am I.