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Rev. Pfleger: "America is the Greatest Sin Against God"
ABCNews.com ^ | 6/1/08 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 06/01/2008 8:21:23 PM PDT by LdSentinal

Rev. Pfleger: "America is the Greatest Sin Against God"

June 01, 2008 10:46 PM

In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger's sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama's now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side of Chicago, the longtime Obama associate condemns America for racism in fairly harsh terms.

Watch HERE.

"Racism is still America's greatest addiction," Pfleger says. "I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."

There seems to be a mixed reaction to that from the pews. But Pfleger explains:

"If the greatest command is to love, than the sin against love must be the greatest sin against God who IS love and who calls us to love one another. So that this greatest sin against God, racism, it's as natural as the air we breath."

Obama, of course, resigned from Trinity on Friday, saying he didn't want to be held accountable for every word spoken from the pulpit at the church, and he didn't want the church to continue to have the media disrupting its worship. The last straw may have been Pfleger's mocking of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, from the pulpit in this same sermon.

But Obama's relationship with Pfleger -- who is the priest at a different, Catholic, church -- spans decades.

In September, the Obama campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign. Pfleger has given money to Obama's campaigns and Obama as a state legislator directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina's, according to the Chicago Tribune. Pfleger appears to have been scrubbed from the Obama campaign's page that features the testimony of faith leaders, but you can see the cached version HERE.

- jpt

UPDATE: Asked for a response to this newly-posted excerpt from the sermon, the Obama campaign has re-released the same statement it issued last week after the video of Rev Pfleger's mocking of Sen. Clinton was released: “As I have traveled this country, I've been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us. That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.” - Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois



TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; hussein; jaketapper; obama; pfleger; religiousleft; sin; trinityucc; whackjob
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1 posted on 06/01/2008 8:21:23 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal

I just love this nutjobs who think America is more evil than just about any tin pot dictatorship on Earth. Maybe the good Father should have spent some time in Cambodia’s killing fields.


2 posted on 06/01/2008 8:23:44 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: LdSentinal
"Racism is still America's greatest addiction," Pfleger says. "I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."

The Catholic Church comtinues to pay him to spew this crap...

3 posted on 06/01/2008 8:23:52 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (Simple-minded conservative...)
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To: LdSentinal
"Racism is still America's greatest addiction,"

As this church seems to clearly demonstrate each and every week.

4 posted on 06/01/2008 8:24:05 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: LdSentinal
In September, (2007) the Obama campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign.
5 posted on 06/01/2008 8:24:35 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Liberals learning curves are pretty flat,)
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To: rbg81

Killing six million jews was nothing. We still have a few blacks who did not get served at Denny’s a several years back.


6 posted on 06/01/2008 8:25:30 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: LdSentinal

Excerpt was just broadcast on the John Batchelor radio show, KFI-AM. Thanks for the link.


7 posted on 06/01/2008 8:26:06 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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To: rbg81

So, the whole Hitler Thing was some sort of National Festival?


8 posted on 06/01/2008 8:26:21 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: LdSentinal
What a wacko. He makes Rev. Wright look restrained.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

9 posted on 06/01/2008 8:27:05 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: LdSentinal
This tool was hired by Obama to try and remove race from the Trinity Church debacle.
10 posted on 06/01/2008 8:27:28 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: LdSentinal; All
Dear Rev. Michael Pfleger:

Jesus Loves You

11 posted on 06/01/2008 8:28:33 PM PDT by musicman
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“”Racism is still America’s greatest addiction,”

Really? I thought it was smoking and sex.


12 posted on 06/01/2008 8:29:34 PM PDT by max americana
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IF there is racism here, it’s the minorities that are racist towards whites. Codified into special protected classes. Wanting reparations from people who never had slaves and weren’t even here when it happened. Can’t ever drop racism because it’s too big a minority industry now. They don’t want MLK’s vision of a colorblind society because if that happens, their gravy train monopoly is over.


13 posted on 06/01/2008 8:29:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Onelifetogive

Hopefully not for long now that the National spotlight has shone on him. They may have been able to brush off the local coverage of him, but not now. If the Catholic Church does NOT address this though, then there is a BIG problem.


14 posted on 06/01/2008 8:30:12 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (The LibertyRocks Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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To: LdSentinal
So that this greatest sin against God, racism

This is actually a core belief among liberals. Murder? Rape? Child abuse? It all pales in comparison to the greatest evil in the universe, racism.

16 posted on 06/01/2008 8:32:35 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: Onelifetogive

Where are those Romney supporters now that we need them.


17 posted on 06/01/2008 8:33:39 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: LdSentinal

I’m at least glad that in this article they point out that Barack can’t explain away his close association with Fr. Pflager by saying “oh, he’s not MY pastor anymore...”. I’m surprised that they are covering this as well as they are, frankly...


18 posted on 06/01/2008 8:33:53 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (The LibertyRocks Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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To: LdSentinal

LOVE it. Hope Obama gets the nomination.

Beating him will be like taking candy from a kid.


19 posted on 06/01/2008 8:33:58 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: LdSentinal

Reverand Pfledger you need to go on a mission trip to a foreign country. You have been living in the promised land way too long.


20 posted on 06/01/2008 8:33:59 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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