Obama Spiritual Roots - Black Liberation Theology
Everyone is talking about Obama’s pastor. But what most Americans do not know is what Obama’s church really stands for. TUCC believes in “Black Liberation Theology”. Obama has been in this church for about 20 years now. So the question is: What is Black Liberation Theology?
In an interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright with Hannity on FoxNews, Pastor Wright repeatedly asked Hannity if he has read James Cones’ book on Black Liberation Theology. Below is an excerpts from the book.
“Black theology cannot accept a view of God which does not represent God as being for oppressed blacks and thus against white oppressors. Living in a world of white oppressors, blacks have no time for a neutral God. The brutalities are too great and the pain too severe, and this means we must know where God is and what God is doing in the revolution. There is no use for a God who loves white oppressors the same as oppressed blacks. We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile. What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject God’s love.” [A Black Theology of Liberation, by James Cones - page . 70]
The above quote is a radical departure from what the Holy Bible says: 1 John 4:20 - If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. Mr. Cone uses Christianity as his platform to spew hate against white people. Sad.
Here is a comment from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Theology-Liberation-Ethics-Society/dp/0883446855
If anyone has ever tried to tell you that a black man cannot be as ignorant, racist, and bigoted as a white man, Dr. Cone will prove otherwise.
Cone tries to blend Christianity, marxism, and islam into some kind of new cosmology, but does not seem to reveal much knowledge of Christianity, marxism, or islam, and he seems to know almost nothing of world history or elementary economics. In a long and highly repetitive diatribe, he does reveal a bred-in-the-bone hatred for all things white and European.
“A Black Theology of Liberation” has nothing to do with theology or liberation and, one hopes, it has nothing to do with black people.
I suppose this book is important if you need to know something about the origins of Black Liberation Theology, or if you want to know something about Barrack Obama’s spiritual roots, otherwise this is a sad little book written by a bitter, ignorant man.
Wright admits that he preaches his brand of that theology which is based, in part, on the works of one James Hal Cone, the recognized pioneer in the black brand of this theology, and someone who has been the Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.
Wright refered to Cone and his “pioneering” efforts in his contentious interveiw with Sean Hannity on Fox News in 2007, HERE.
Cone himself is much written and describes this theology in his book A Black Theology for Liberation, which is one of many books he has written. One notable quote in that book decribing Cone’s Black Liberation Theology is as follows:
“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.”
That theology accepts a perverted and wrested interpretation of Jesus Christ where it describes him as a poor black man (or man of color) living under oppressive white European rule (the Romans) and that he was as much about social change and bringing down government as he was about spiritual liberation. He therefore meets Cone’s (and adherants to this perverted view of our Savior) criteria for a God who supports their black power insurgency against what they describe as the ruling rich white men and women in America.
This interpretation perverts the love of all men that Christ taught, the peace, the forgiveness, and inner, spiritual focus of Christ and His atonement, which teaches us that the change His atonement brings within us heals us spiritually, creating a new man fashioned after Christ who teaches by example, love, and long suffering.
Speaking of these qualities, Cone sarcastically states in the book:
“There is no use for a God who loves white oppressors the same as oppressed blacks. We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile.”
As if this love, and Christ’s own words regarding it are somehow a construct of the white race to keep people of color down. Disgusting, and really very, very tragic that people are being raised on this hate…because that is exactly what it is…and Cone says so.
“Black hatred is the black man’s strong aversion to white society. No black man living in white America can escape it… While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism. “
Thus Black Liberation Theology changes Christ, the God of peace and love, into a God of their own construction, a God of hate and revenge, who is hell bent on political and social change at any cost and who supports that hate and “revenge” to suit their needs.
This is the message about Obama’s “church” (and others like it) that needs to be spread. I repeat, I do not believe it is at all subscribed to by most blacks in this country, and certainly not by society at large. But it has been hidden, growing…festering, and flying under the radar in these radical churches and because of political correctness it has been heretofore untouchable. But now the cat is out of the bag.
It is shocking, is is disgusting…and it is dangerous.
It is in no way related to, or derived from American foreign policy or society. The fact is America, despite its problems and mistakes, has set more people free (even through a horrific civil war of our own) and and given them individual liberty (and thus individual accountability) and therefore truly assisted more people’s on this earth than any other nation on it.
…and there is the rub. Christ teaches that all men are created equal in God’s eyes, and that they are individually responsible for their actions with an inate ability to “Come unto Him” and be free. The American constituion, despite changes that required fire and blood to address (and, OBTW, that blood was shed in the civil war principally by white men fighting to, among other things, preserve the Union and free the blacks), sets down in law the same principles.
This theology, Black Liberation Theology, is a blatant attempt to mix and wrest and perevert Christianity into a construct for the age old battle against individual rights. It is a Marxist ideological, collective, class-struggle, and ultimately tyranical construct committed to destroying individual freedom.
This same type of liberation theology has been used for decades in Latin America to pervert Catholics and goad them into rising into Marxist rebellions in class warfare.
That is what this is…and it is the version accepted and practised by black radicals in this country and it is intent on changing this country into a socio-marxist state where wealth, opportunity, and position are not earned by individuals, but instead are handed out by the state…and in this case they simply want to be the ones in control of redistributing it all for their purposes and what they call “their” people.
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Barack Obama chose a spiritual adviser/mentor, Jeremiah Wright, who taught the Anti-White/Victimization Ideology of Black Liberation Theology.
Obama listened to the Anti-White/Victimization Ideology for 20 years, exposed his daughters to it, and gave tens of thousands of dollars to support the preaching of the Anti-White/Victimization Ideology of Black Liberation Theology.
Voters should scrutinize the personal choices (e.g., choosing the Anti-White/Victimization Ideology of Black Liberation Theology and Anti-American friends) of a candidate which can influence his perception of the world and events taking place in the world.
Obama chose Anti-American friends (Farrakhan, Rezko, Khalidi, Ayers, etc.).
Obama cannot beat Sen. McCain.