Jim Cone
Election 2008
| April 30, 2008
| Tim
"I do not in any way disagree with James Cone. Jim is a personal friend of mine." - Jeremiah Wright
Via John Hawkins, Jim Cone:
"Black theology," says Cone, "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."
That Barack guy certainly has some interesting friends!
Wait, that was Jeremiah Wright who said that yesterday. You know, the person who Obama looked to as a mentor earlier in the year, but now says the press put those words in his mouth. ;-)
Terrifying, isn't it?
(And it's Barack not Barak.)
Wait, that was Jeremiah Wright who said that yesterday.
Whoops! Right. Corrected.
Terrifying, isn't it?
I've heard that some are speculating that Wright is secretly working for Hillary. Uh-huh. (See my previous comment regarding conspiracy theories.) I think this episode is more easily explained as a man who needed to be in the spotlight finding attention by saying whatever a certain audience wanted to hear -- then continuing that behavior past the point where it's helpful. (Oh, I and I do believe he actually believes it, too. They're not mutually exclusive.)
Defenders and parts of the media keep calling Wright "prophetic", but imagine if the Israeli prophets had adopted the same style:
"YHWH has sent me to tell you that you're all WONDERFUL, and that all the problems in the world are the fault of the GENTILE. It's the GENTILES who are causing your crops to fail (not disobedience to me, as some falsely say), it's the GENTILES who are causing your kids to disobey. Have you supported a corrupt leadership? Well, don't repent: because it's really a GENTILE plot to keep you down. You've been working on the sabbath, but hey, it's the GENTILES who are to blame for tempting you to do so. Was there a plague in your land? It wasn't my divine retribution: instead, it was a disease biologically engineered by the GENTILES to keep you down. Forget the sackcloth and ashes, people, YHWH digs you completely."
Instead, God seems to harsh equally on everyone's self-adulating vibe, and likewise offers ultimate hope to the whole world, not just one small group of people. God judges the Jews, if anything more harshly because he has expected more of them. Not so with Wright: he smugly assures his audience that the world's ills are everyone's fault but theirs.
I think it was Jesus who said, if I remember it correctly: "First, before removing the log from your own eyes, peach endlessly about the alleged motes in others'..."
Hey! Alicia Keys recently got in on the act as well!
Alicia Keys might be going insane according to a portion of an interview that has turned up in the UK's Sun Newspaper where she claims the US government created 'gangsta rap' to keep black people down. SOUL star ALICIA KEYS has bizarrely claimed the US government invented "gangsta rap" to convince black people to kill each other...
She no more "going insane" than Wright and his congregation were, for all those decades. Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry: every wrong thing you or someone in your group does is always someone else's fault.
(And it's Barack not Barak.)
Ack, you're right again. I dropped the "c". Must have been some racist tendency on my part. Or perhaps it was an unconscious attempt to associate him with a character on Space Ghost.
That's what happens when you post quickly before bed. Wow. Two major errors in the same article. Ick! I feel like The New York Times!
I blame Hillary Clinton for this.
Hahaha! Great reply — somehow makes me glad for the typos.
However, in regards to the prophets, do remember that there were those who said that. First off, Isaiah 8:12 had to be talking about people who were disseminating conspiracies. And the numbers of false prophets who told the king he was doing just fine while turning away from God. (Which I would look up and give reference, but unfortunately don't quite have time at the present moment)
Hmm, didn't know who Alicia Keys was. Yup. I know government agencies love to invent musical styles. There are so many precedents for it. :-)
Wow, comparing Obama to Brak is just great! Suddenly images of YouTube videos flit through my brain. ;-)
Okay, on the "white government trying to kill off the black people" conspiracy front, has anyone out there heard this one? A friend of mine was driving with his radio on AM late one night, when he heard this actually being discussed on a call-in show: the US Government (just the white part, apparently) has a device that can control the weather, which is how George W. Bush could steer Hurricane Katrina into New Orleans which is so heavily African American. Also, this device is responsible for global warming. But wait, it gets better: when global warming reaches its worst, space ships (which are sitting on the other side of the moon) will come down and beam up all the white people, who will wait until the other races are dead from the heat and then they will come down and inhabit the Earth. Apparently this woman was an author, and the host was in complete agreement with her! Is it me, or has the planet's population gone crazy all of a sudden?
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Wait, that was Jeremiah Wright who said that yesterday. You know, the person who Obama looked to as a mentor earlier in the year, but now says the press put those words in his mouth. ;-)
Terrifying, isn't it?
(And it's Barack not Barak.)
Posted by: Michael Zappe on April 30, 2008 10:47 AM