Posted by
Bob Siegel on Monday, March 17, 2008 1:51:49 PM
Yes,
it’s been in the news all week: Trinity United Church of Christ and its pastor
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in the news because Barak Obama attended that church for
many years.
In
the name of Christianity, Jeremiah Wright has said the most vile things; America
is responsible for 9/11, white people invented Aids to destroy black people, oh,
and black people are superior to whites. Part of his justification for that last one is that Jesus was black.
Now
look, I don’t care what color Jesus was. No true Christian cares what color
Jesus was. To care about such a thing is to contradict the whole message of
Jesus who taught that God loves everybody regardless of race or skin color. If
it so had happened that Jesus had been black, that would have been fine. It just
so happens that Jesus was not black. He was Jewish. Did he have dark
Mediterranean skin? Yeah, probably. But he was not black. And
yet, that’s another problem with Trinity
United Church.
They are so freaking anti-Semitic they would find it difficult to admit that
Jesus was Jewish.
Now
the news about this church and Obama’s connection has been around for a long
time, but our liberal media has been ignoring it and instead making stupid
comments like “Gee When Obama speaks, I
get a strange feeling going up my leg.” Yeah,
those were the real words of objective news commentator, Chris Matthews.
Nevertheless,
this last week ABC news actually got a hold of some recorded speeches from this
demagogue who calls himself a pastor. Now the media can’t ignore it anymore. Now
Obama can’t ignore it anymore. He was finally forced to comment on the church. And
just what was the comment? He really had no idea that such hateful words were
being spit forth by his pastor on such a regular bases. Oh sure, he knew the
guy had a few nutty ideas, kind of like the senile uncle we all have hidden in
the attic somewhere.
Let’s
try to think with our heads: Obama was
mentored by this man and married by this man. His children were baptized by
this man. You’ve heard the guy. You’ve
heard Rev. Wright. Does he sound like the kind of person who would hide his beliefs from
anybody, let alone the student he mentored? Give me a break! The very suggestion that Obama had no idea
what the man stood for insults our intelligence. But then, intelligence has had
nothing to do with Obama’s campaign. People who follow him know absolutely
nothing about him except that he offers change. But now the fat is in the fire
and Obama has really set himself up good. He claims that when those vile
speeches were being delivered he was absent from church those particular days. Oh
what a dangerous statement to make in this day and age, this technological day
and age when every Junior High age kid has a cell phone with a camera. If we
find any video proving that Obama ever sat through one of these poisonous
sermons, the jig is up. Well, it’s up for some people. Others will still follow
this man like the pied piper. Already people are making excuses for his pastor
saying that the man is being heard out of context.
Sure.
That must be it. He was heard out of context. When he said that God should
condemn America,
he meant that God should bless America.
When he says that black people are superior to whites, he means that all men
are created equal. Yeah, we just need to
hear the poor guy in context. Hitler was taken out of context too. When he said the Germans were the master race
he meant that all men were brothers and should join hands.
This
is Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.
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