In early March, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, was put on the spotlight as having preached a horrendous amount of racist, anti-white, and anti-American sermons in his some thirty years as pastor. Barrack Obama, (Senator representing the state of Illinois, and Presidential hopeful) has described this man as his spiritual mentor for over 17 years, and who he attributes the title of his book, The Audacity of Hope. The American Heritage Dictionary defines “mentor” as: “To serve as a trusted counselor or teacher to another person.” So, if Rev. Wright has been Obama’s trusted teacher, it would be helpful to learn what exactly Sen. Obama has been learning.
On March 2, Jeremiah Wright was interviewed my Sean Hannity, of Hannity and Colmes. Here is a partial transcript of this interview, and it can be watched here. Pay close attention to the letters in bold.
WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the ‘60s, (INAUDIBLE) black liberation theology, that started with Jim Cone in 1968, and the writings of Cone, and the writings of Dwight Hopkins, and the writings of womanist theologians, and Asian theologians, and Hispanic theologians...
HANNITY: Reverend, I've got to get this in.
WRIGHT: Then you can talk about the black value system.
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: I'm going to tell you this. Listen...
WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir? Do you know liberation theology?
HANNITY: I studied theology; I went to a seminary. And I studied Latin.
WRIGHT: Do you know black liberation theology?
HANNITY: I'm very aware of what you're calling black liberation, but let me get my question out.
(CROSSTALK)
WRIGHT: I said, do you know black theology?
HANNITY: Reverend, I'm going to give you a chance to answer my question.
WRIGHT: How many of Cone's books have you read? How many of Cone's books have you read?
HANNITY: Reverend, Reverend?
(CROSSTALK)
WRIGHT: How many books of Cone's have you head?
HANNITY: I'm going to ask you this question...
WRIGHT: How many books of Dwight Hopkins have you read?
Unfortunately, not much information can be gleaned from this, except that the reverend is very rude. But there are certain words that do have a way of catching the eye, words like “liberation theology,” “Black Liberation Theology,” “Jim Cone,” and “Dwight Hopkins.”
Who are these people? What is Liberation Theology? And who is Jim Cone? Hopefully, these next few paragraphs will clear these things up. We will start at the root of the matter: Liberation Theology.
Liberation theology finds its roots in Latin America, where it strove to interpret the Bible to liberate the poor and oppressed. It became very popular in the 1950-60’s when the policies of Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil benefited the middle class but made the poor that much poorer. Men like Gustavo Gutierrez and Hugo Assmarm incorporated Marxism, which sought to “redistribute” the wealth of the rich, and give it to the poor. In the 1980’s, The Catholic Church accepted liberation theology as truth, starting with Pope John Paul.
Liberation theology, plain and simple, is religious communism. These people believe that God is the God of the poor, not the rich. God is a God that sets himself against the rich, and seeks to liberate the poor. These radical “Christians” justify their beliefs with one portion of scripture; namely, Isaiah 61:1-2. From the English Standard Version:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all those who mourn…”
Liberation theologians use these two verses in scripture to justify the fact that the whole bible tailors to their beliefs. This argument does not work scripturally, or even logically.
Reverend Bob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, says, “You need a careful balanced interpretation of the Bible. Liberation Theology isolates a few verses, takes them out of context, and then exaggerates their meaning.” This theology obviously does not stand up under any degree of scrutiny. This theology has been the foundation for several other religions, among them Feminist Liberation Theology, and Black Liberation theology, which we will speak of in greater depth now.
Jim Cone, the very man Rev. Wright spoke of in his interview, was born on August 5, 1938, in Fordyce, Arkansas. He grew up having to deal with the terrible amount of racism that was rampant in that part of the country, at that time. In hopes to try to escape the amount of hatred the two races felt for each other, Cone turned to the Christians, and was dismayed at the amount of racism he found even there. At a very young age, Cone made the decision that belief in God could not be left in the hands of the whites. To satisfy his thinking, he created Black Liberation Theology, which believes that God is the God of the blacks, not the whites. In his book, Black Theology and Black Power, Cone writes: “... 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.” Jim Cone, instead of making a religion to counteract the racism he saw, has made a religion worse than anything ever created here in America. He created a religion that believes God is Black, is for the Blacks, and seeks to eradicate all those who are white.
But this belief does not stop at that; Black Liberation Theology also looks to kill gods that do not stand up to their standards. Again from Black Theology and Black Power, by Jim Cone: “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." So, here we have a religion that not only believes it their mission to eradicate all non-blacks, but also desires to kill the gods that do not stand up to their criteria.
So, what does this have to do with Obama? As I said earlier, Barrack Obama has called Jeremiah Wright, a self proclaimed Black Liberation Theologian, his “spiritual mentor” for over 17 years! Not only has Obama been attending this mans church, but has been taught this Christian heresy for almost two decades!
But no religion is complete without a Christ, or Messiah. Being one of the original founders of Liberation Theology, Che Gavera, the Cuban mass murderer, was set up as a Christ figure for liberation theology, and through it, Black Liberation Theology. Interestingly enough, a picture of Che Gavera hangs on a wall in Obama’s recruiting office in Texas!
We have just looked at the hateful religion of Black Liberation Theology, first its origins in Liberation theology, and also how it relates to Obama. This man, who wishes to be our commander in chief, believes in a religion that advocates violence and even murder against those who do not follow Che Gavera. This man obviously has no place in our legislature, or the Oval Office. | 