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1 posted on 10/12/2012 6:46:10 AM PDT by marshmallow
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I’m a Protestant and I have yet to find a Protestant Denomination that spoke out as clearly against abortion as Catholics and - Mormons. Most are too afraid of alienating potential contributors and affecting their bottom lines. This is especially true of the Episcopal Church USA!


2 posted on 10/12/2012 6:53:12 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping, gay bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO!)
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To: marshmallow

Biden is no Catholic; just a CINO.


3 posted on 10/12/2012 6:54:10 AM PDT by golas1964 (Obama must be defeated in 2012)
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To: marshmallow

“Subsidiarity” is STILL valid Catholic theology.

We are not to allow higher levels of authority to intrude on areas of authority best left to the:

Individual
Family
Church
City
County
State
Country

Catholic social teaching says that “It is impossible to be, at the same time, a Catholic and a Socialist”

(The above a paraphrase of a Pope)


6 posted on 10/12/2012 7:02:31 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: marshmallow
"President Obama is a mainline Protestant" ?????

How ignorant or dishonest do you have to be to claim Reverend Wright's "Black Liberation Theology" is "mainline Protestant?"

When the founder of "Black Liberation Theology" was asked for the best example of a church following his theology, he cited Reverend Wright's church. For examples of Cone's theology, here's a few quote I keep handy:

From “A Black Theology of Liberation” by James H. Cone (1970)

Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy... Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love, (Page 70)

With the assurance that God is on our side, we can begin to make ready for the inevitable-the decisive encounter between black and white existence. ….We will not let whitey cool this one with his pious love ethic but will seek to enhance our hostility, bringing it to its full manifestation. (Page 12)

To be black is to be committed to destroying everything this country loves and adores. (Page 20)

The black experience is the feeling one has when attacking the enemy of black humanity by throwing a Molotov cocktail into a white-owned building and watching it go up in flames. (Page 25)

Every time a white master came to his death, blacks believed that it was the work of God inflicting just judgment in recompense for the suffering of God’s people. (Page 37)

As the oppressed now recognize their situation in the light of God’s revelation, they know that they should have killed their oppressors instead of trying to “love” them. (Page 51)

Because whiteness by its very nature is against blackness, the black prophet is a prophet of national doom. He proclaims the end of the “American Way,” for God has stirred the soul of the black community. (Page 55)

It (Black theology) must stay in the black community and get down to the real issues at hand (“cutting throats” to use LeRoi Jones’s phrase) (Page 59)

The goal of black theology is the destruction of everything white… (page 62)

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. (Page 70)

The free person in America is the one who does not tolerate whiteness but fights against it, knowing that it is the source of human misery. (page 101)

Freedom is the black movement of a people getting ready to liberate itself, knowing that it cannot be unless its oppressors cease to be. (page 101)

The Constitution is white, the Emancipation Proclamation is white, the government is white, business is white, the unions are white. What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world. (page 107)

The black Christ is he who threatens the structure of evil as seen in white society, rebelling against it, thereby becoming the embodiment of what the black community knows that it must become. (page 121)

The black Christ is he who nourishes the rebellious impulse in blacks so that at the appointed time the black community can respond collectively to the white community as a corporate “bad nigger,” lashing out at the enemy of human-kind. (page 121)

To be a disciple of the black Christ is to become black with him. Looting, burning, or the destruction of white property are not primary concerns. Such matters can only be decided by the oppressed themselves who are seeking to develop their images of the black Christ. (page 123)

From “Black Theology and Black Power” by James H. Cone (1969):
I believe that all aspiring black intellectuals share the task that LeRoi Jones has described for the black artist in America: “To aid in the destruction of America as he knows it:” (page 3)

And it should be said that racism is so embedded in the heart of American society that few, if any, whites can free themselves from it. (page 23)

In time of war, men want to know who the enemy is. Who is for me and who is against me? That is the question. The asserting of black freedom in America has always meant war. (page 26)

…violence may be the black man’s expression, sometimes the only possible expression, of Christian love to the white oppressor. (page 55)

If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist (or “the principalities and powers”), the white church seems to be a manifestation of it. It is the enemy of Christ. (page 73)

Just as the black revolution means the death of America as it has been, so it requires the death of the Church in its familiar patterns. (page 116)

If the doctrine is against or indifferent to the essence of blackness as expressed in Black Power, then it is the work of the Antichrist: It is as simple as that. (page 121)

It is a theology which confronts white society as the racist Antichrist, communicating to the oppressor that nothing will be spared in the fight for freedom. (page 135)

Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of man’s depravity. page 150)

In a white racist society, Christian obedience can only mean being obedient to blackness, its glorification and exaltation. (page 150)

It is this fact that makes all white churches anti-Christian in their essence. To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people! (page 151)


After that claim by the author, nothing else in the article could be worth reading!
8 posted on 10/12/2012 7:16:34 AM PDT by drpix
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We write as Protestants (a Baptist political scholar and a Reformed moral theologian, respectively) in praise of Catholic Social Teaching. There are several areas of CST which are directly applicable to issues at stake in this election.

In other words, not all Protestants per se, just two of them: Hunter Baker and Jordan Ballor. Just like the Catholic blueprint for Monarchy in America.

10 posted on 10/12/2012 7:23:19 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: marshmallow

Any article which characterizes bho as “mainline Protestant” is deliberate (and desperate) propaganda, or at least the most ignorant trash imaginable. Rubbish!! Even the blind can see what he is. We’ve had 4 years of it, after all, and its been totally consistent and most decidedly anti- Christian. This article is rubbish.


12 posted on 10/12/2012 8:16:54 AM PDT by faithhopecharity
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President Obama is a mainline Protestant

A conclusion reached only by the obtuse and not supported by any evidence.

16 posted on 10/12/2012 8:19:51 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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