Posted on 09/02/2010 3:13:41 AM PDT by Rashputin
Writing on "Faith," in The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama went to great lengths to explain that his own "conversion" was enabled not by orthodox Christian awakening, but by the explicitly political nature of the Black Liberation Theology preached by Jeremiah Wright, Jr. And the thrust of Obama's entire chapter on faith in his own book was to show how his own liberation theology should not frighten secular progressives because it bore little to no resemblance to the religion of those Bible Belt "bitter clingers." And as observant Americans know well, Barack Obama was so ardent a follower of Jeremiah Wright's brand of Christianity that he named his book after a Wright sermon, The Audacity of Hope. While it is true that Barack Obama never (that I know of) used the explicit words "Black Liberation Theology" in his speeches or his books, everything about his claims to faith in his writing, his speeches, and his current actions as president is filled with the tenets of this fringe system of beliefs.
And what was that "hope" to which Wright referred? It was not the hope of individual salvation, which is the bedrock of orthodox Christian belief. No, Wright's hope, the same hope where Barack Obama found his "conversion," was in "collective redemption" through a political, material redistribution of power and wealth from the "white oppressors" to the "black oppressed." Quite contrary to Mr. Rutten's assertion that no "evidence" ties Barack Obama to liberation theology, Obama himself has used the phrase "collective redemption" regularly.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It's time to take back significant portions of our language that the media arm of the fascist democrat party and education system have deliberately subverted. Not only does it make for more honest discussion, fighting over what words actually mean helps disarm the liars. We've surrendered our language too easily to these manipulators and the abuse of the name Christian is a good place to start taking back our language as part of taking the education system back from these fascists.
Great article. There are some devastating quotes from Cone in there. Think we’ll ever see these turn up in the Ruling Class media? Ha ha ha...
These people are whackos, but they are being displaced by the Hispanics white liberals are all to happy to let in to supplant them as victims du jour. Their influence peaked decades ago, and the election of the Kenyan Pirate has only given them a false sense of victory. Hispanics are displacing blacks in cities, in the job market, and in politics.
Great, great article, thank you for this thread, Rashputin. Boy, American Thinker has become one of my favorite sites for thoughtful conservative commentary. At least one gem a week comes out of there.
To those of us who don’t get our news primarily from the MSM (or is it now the LSM?) this was known to us. This is no surprise. The author was spot on when she said the MSM did all they could to hide the real nature of Barack Hussein Obama’s “Christianity” from the electorate.
They will start killing each other soon enough.
The solution to all our problems rolled up into one sentence.
Reclaim English
Tim Rutten has a long history of promoting anything and everything that is anti-white.
The ADL and Tim Rutten are huge fans of each other.
They already are, and it gets plenty of publicity. The “Newark (NJ) Schoolyard Shootings” (in which a group of Hispanics, including illegals, killed a group of black youngsters preparing to go to college) were just a drop in the bucket. In the northeast, but moreso in the southwest/southern CA, Hispanic gangs are eliminating blacks in drug turf wars, prison “beefs”, and the like. In NYC about ten years ago, they had an fight at a construction site between the 2 groups because both knew that 51% of the crew had to be minority/women, and each wanted to be that 51% (they would just show up at the site and wait to be hired due to those requirements - like “On the Waterfront”, but they really weren’t going to do much work).
The media hid everything about Obama’s religion, politics, history...everything. They are complicit in this assault on the republic, and they are paying for that (but not enough, in my opinion). This is absolutely journalistic malpractice.
“After reading Tim Rutten’s column, I must admit I was completely flummoxed. How could someone with such an impressive bio write such errant tripe and get paid big bucks for it? Only in Obama’s America, folks.
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How can any Christian in America for this person?
Do they know, or don’t remember, of his huge support for partial-birth abortion? Do they know of all the horrors that this entails?
Didn’t they see his best friend Rev. Wright standing up in Trinity Church shouting and screaming God damn America?
Do they really believe that Barack Hussein Obama never heard that Rev. Wright’s words? Didn’t I see somewhere where he stated that he was in the front row every week for 20 years?
I wonder if that news got out to all Americans? I wonder if any of the above got out to most Americans? I wonder if any of it will ever get out to most Americans or even some Americans?
I weep for my country.
Whomever the GOP nominee is ‘12, they need to pledge to bring Wright and Black Liberation Theology to the forefront.
Zero was guided by this crap for 20 years and his agenda pretty much lines right up with it.
It must be an issue.
The media hid everything about Obama’s religion, politics, history...everything. They are complicit in this assault on the republic, and they are paying for that (but not enough, in my opinion). This is absolutely journalistic malpractice.Journalistic malpractice on a major, coordinated, journolisted scale.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tim Rutten (-) is an American journalist who has been writing for the Los Angeles Times since the 1970s.
A native of San Bernardino, California, he majored in political science at California State University (Los Angeles).
He started at the paper in 1972 as a copy editor in the View section. Prior to becoming a columnist for the Calendar section in 2002, he held a number of positions, including city bureau chief and editorial writer.
He notably wrote about the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which won him a Pulitzer prize. He also won a 1991 award from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club for editorial writing. In 2007, he was honored by the Anti-Defamation League for advancing the ideals of the first amendment. [1]
I wonder when the Los Angeles Times will finally release the Barak Hussein Obama tape showing him to be best friends forever with all his Arab and Palestinian buddies? Never? Do I win a prize for guessing correctly?
Just a few interesting notes about where this very good article comes from —
In 2000, the Times-Mirror Company was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago, Illinois, ending one of the final examples of a family-controlled metropolitan daily newspaper in the U.S. (The New York Times, The Seattle Times, and others remain). John Carroll, former editor of the Baltimore Sun, was brought in to restore the luster of the newspaper.
During his reign at the Los Angeles Times he eliminated more than 200 jobs, but it was not enough for parent company Tribune. Despite operating profits of 20 percent the Tribune executives were unsatisfied with returns and by 2005 John Carroll had left the Los Angeles Times.
Dean Baquet replaced John Carroll, who refused to impose the additional cutbacks mandated by Tribune. Baquet was the first African American to hold this type of editorial position at a top-tier daily. During Baquet and Carroll’s time at the paper it won 13 Pulitzers, more than any other paper but the New York Times.[15] Subsequently, Baquet was himself ousted for not meeting the demands of the Tribune Group - as was publisher Jeffrey Johnson - and replaced by James O’Shea of the Chicago Tribune. O’Shea himself left in January 2008 after a budget dispute with publisher David Hiller.
And then Sam Zell stepped in to buy the newspaper using 100% borrowed money.
That means if it goes up in value he wins, and if it goes down in value he walks away leaving everyone else around him severely damaged — but not to worry, he is okay, he is still super rich, and I suppose giving mountains of money to the Democratic Party.
So if we want to complain about the horrible Los Angeles Times’ extremely liberal slant, its horrible anti-conservative bias, I guess we can all send a postcard to good old Sam Zell, and I’m sure he will take all those postcards and throw them in the circular file. And laugh.
Next time Obama says he’s a Christian, why don’t they just ask him what his definition of a Christian is? And his favorite Bible verse. Most Christians have at least one favorite verse. I hate to question someone’s stated religion, but I don’t trust Obama on anything.
After the Wright stuff came out during the campaign, I was sure that would be the end for Obama. The fact that so many people overlooked it shocked me.
Related thread:
Do Most Christians Decorate Christmas Trees With Ornaments of Chairman Mao and Transvestites?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2581271/posts
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“Neither Wright or Obama believe Christ was the Messiah or their Savior”
How do we know that?
Related: take a look at Coulter’s latest column in which she “proves” that Obama is an athiest.
“Black Liberation Theology”
• Sham philosophy
• Zero intellectual basis
• Zero academic frame of reference
• Zero empirical fact base
• One hundred percent emotion based
• One hundred percent emotion driven
Bottom line:
• Zero Substance
• Zero Credibility
• One hundred percent Anti-establishment/Anti-American pseudo-social philosophy lead by self-hating, disaffected, near-criminal, posturing cretins who are all one nano-second away from certifiable lunacy and none of whom possess any more credibility than circus barkers.
An excellent article and well worth reading in its entirety. This is a subject that cannot be allowed to fade into MSM-oblivion again.
It is that dangerous.
I hope she'll add a footnote to the article or an insert with links to the Journolist comments on how the MSM absolutely had to hide and kill the Jeremiah Wright "story" before it destroyed candidate Obama.
Also I would like the author to see if she can find out more about the fact that Jeremiah Wright was a Muslim in his youth.
Reclaim education!
The “education system” can be changed in the twinkling of an eye if all conservatives who can homeschool do so.
The massive deregistration of students would lead to immediate, positive changes for the kids still in public school, in federal funding schemes (scams), in the power of teachers unions, and in the state of learning in general.
Sean Hannity worked his butt off on these issues. He put up special after special, with clear and devastating research demonstrating how dangerous Obama and his associated were to our nation and our core identity as Americans.
But even here on FR there were freepers who were hellbent on refusing to do their part to try to stop Obama & gang from capturing the White House by voting for John McCain.
I don’t think the GOP nominee needs to do that. WE do.
But it's very clear where his sympathies lie. They do not lie with the core concept of what the United States of America means.
I think that is only going to get worse. BTW thanks for that info, I didn’t know.
I think it was so shocking that many whites did not believe it could possibly represent anything other than the very, very, very fringe of the black community. And, follow on to that, they believed that there was zero possibility that an educated, affluent, "cultured" man raised among whites (and thus having the opportunity to see beyond stereotypes) as well as blacks -- i.e., Obama -- would have any commerce whatsoever with such fringe hate theology.
So when Obama gave his speech claiming he was a "Jesus saves" kind of guy, whites were more than happy to take him at his word. Not so much his word that he was a Christian, but the larger implication that he did not partake or believe in or support in any way, shape or form the anti-Christian, anti-White "preaching" we now know is called Black Liberation Theology.
I do think many, many whites were shocked to learn that some black people do, in fact, hate them because they are white. Whites honestly thought that most blacks felt about them the same way most whites felt about blacks: that it was the content of character, not the color of one's skin, that matters.
I have been following this topic somewhat since then. Yet I was still shocked and dismayed at this pull quote of Cone's in the article:
Negro hatred of white people is not pathological -- far from it. It is a healthy human reaction to oppression, insult, and terror. White people are often surprised at the Negro's hatred of them, but it should not be surprising (p. 14).
“...collective redemption” through a political, material redistribution of power and wealth...”
Institutionalized theft. Period
They are scared:
White House distances Obama from liberation theologyWhite House press secretary Robert Gibbs implied Thursday that President Obama does not subscribe to a version of Christianity dubbed as “liberation theology,” and argued that the president’s beliefs are more akin to traditional Protestantism.
“The president is a committed mainstream Christian,” Gibbs said . . .
I can see why those people didn’t support McCain; at that point they’d be like the urban underclass that just shows up with a pre-marked ballot from their master. I voted for McCain, but the Republicans can’t take this position (similar to that taken by Dems with blacks) that conservatives have nowhere else to go. The biggest danger with that thinking is not that the people go somewhere else; the two parties have a lock on the system. The danger is that they just stay home.
What you are saying is true on some levels. My problem with your argument, though, is that ON ELECTION DAY, we still have to get the best president we can for the country. It is not the day for protest votes or for party transformation and it sure as hell does not “send a message” to have a bunch of votes wasted rather than used to defeat the IMMEDIATE threat to the nation.
On Election Day, when it’s clear that either Barack Obama or John McCain is going to be the next President of the United States. So what you have to do is vote to defeat Obama, because that’s the immediate threat. Then you can continue to work for changes such as we have seen this year with the Tea Party movement. This makes “somewhere else to go” actually more and more politically viable — not the stupid threat of voting for a third party candidate who has no chance of winning on Election Day, or of taking one’s marbles, going home and not voting at all.
I can see why people may not have supported McCain. I can’t see why anyone who loves this country, however, would not get off their butt to do what they could to defeat Obama at the ballot box on Election Day.
Voting to defeat Obama because he was a clear and present danger to the country is NOT AT ALL like your analogy that this makes conservatives like blacks voting mindlessly for Rats. There is nothing mindless about voting to keep a Marxist from entering the White House!
IOW, you can’t equate a group that votes FOR the plantation master because they like the freebies on the welfare plantation with a group that rationally and wisely DECIDES to vote AGAINST a Marxist (by voting FOR the other guy) because keeping socialism out of the White House is a worthy goal and in the country’s best interests.
Blacks vote en bloc for Dems (so the thinking goes) because they think Dems will give them goodies. Conservatives should have voted against the Dems in 2008 simply because that was very necessary to keep our country from the harm it is now enduring.
As I said, I voted for McCain; I understand your logic. By the number of votes cast, a lot of people did vote for McCain. Many voters wanted to believe the Obama was going to bring jobs, and believed Republicans had their chance to do so & failed. The media went to extreme lengths to make real Americans vote for the Kenyan Pirate, and it worked. Now the scales have fallen from many voters’ eyes, and both the Democrats and the media are paying for the Coup of 2008. The Dems have already suffered losses at the polls (including in MASSACHUSETTS), and the “mainstream” media’s relegation to the dustbin has been hastened by their exposure as lackeys for the Radical Left. Now that Americans know Obama is no better than Republicans on jobs (either creating them or protecting them from the Bronze Horde flooding across our southern border) or taxes, he just appears as what he is: a Muslim Communist who hates white people and America.
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