Why Raphael Warnock Shouldn't Be a Pastor or a Senator

Democratic Georgia senatorial candidate, Raphael Warnock, appears to be a racist, a radical and an anti-Semite. He shouldn’t be a Christian pastor or a U.S. senator. Warnock is in a runoff election against the Republican incumbent, Sen. Kelly Loeffler. The race will be decided on January 5, 2021. Like so many prominent black pastors today, Warnock has embraced a secular worldview that prioritizes identity politics above biblical truth. In a few short years, Black Lives Matter has done more to influence the attitudes of black Americans than black Christians have in decades and we have leaders like Warnock to thank for it.

The self-destructive behavioral patterns that are endemic within the black community will remain until the black Christian church repents. Unless blacks confront the disease destroying black neighborhoods around the country, which is a lack of biblical values being taught and applied in our homes and churches, symptomatic issues such as fatherless homes, abortion, high crime rates, poverty from a lack of quality education, low job skills and poor money management will continue to destroy these struggling communities.

Recently, Warnock got into some hot water when rants from some of his past sermons resurfaced to haunt him. He attacked whites, Jews, cops and the military from behind the pulpit. He has also expressed support for “reproductive rights,” also known as abortion. He misinterpreted Acts 2 of the Bible to justify socialism. Sadly, Warnock is the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church located in Atlanta, Ga. If that name sounds familiar to you, it is because it was the home church of America’s last and greatest civil rights hero, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. King famously believed that a man should be judged by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin. This belief is consistent with a Biblical worldview. Warnock, however, seems to believe that blackness is a determining factor for eternal salvation, and whiteness is a barrier to it.

As I often say on my radio show, “there’s no affirmative action plan in Heaven.” When we meet God face-to-face, our ethnicity will have nothing to do with whether we enter the pearly gates of Heaven. Our faith in Jesus Christ, as well as our deeds, will be judged on an individual basis. Warnock is playing a dangerous game with his congregants that could have eternal consequences. He preaches as if he’d like to see Uncle Sam submit to his will, rather than he submit to God’s will. Warnock is not a Christian, he’s a heretic. Let’s dissect some of his stupid beliefs together:

In 2016 Warnock said that America needs to “repent for its worship of whiteness” speaking of Donald Trump’s presidency. This is silly. America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Trump campaigned to restore those values. That isn’t worshipping “whiteness.” On the contrary, Republicans voted for Trump despite his personal flaws because he embraced the ideas outlined in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Ideas such as, all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, America is home to more than 40 million legal immigrants. That’s one-fifth of the world’s migrants. The migrants are very ethnically diverse. According to a 2018 Pew Research survey (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/), the majority of America’s legal immigrants arrive from China at 28 percent. Followed by Mexico at 25 percent. India at 6 percent. The Phillipines at 4 percent; El Salvador at 3 percent; Central America at 8 percent; Sub-Saharan Africa at 5 percent; The Middle East and North Africa at 4 percent; The Caribbean at 10 percent, and the list goes on.
In a 2011 sermon Warnock said that “nobody can serve God and the military.” He mischaracterized Matthew 6:24 which speaks about the Practice of Kingdom living as it relates to money. The scripture actually says “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” The verse never mentions the military. Furthermore, King David, Joshua and the Centurion soldier found in the New Testament were all warriors that served God. Thanks to our soldiers, Warnock is free to be biblically illiterate.
Warnock said Israeli soldiers “shoot down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey.” He also signed a letter comparing Israeli control of the West Bank to “previous oppressive regimes” like “apartheid South Africa.” I doubt Warnock has ever had missiles launched at his home where he needed to defend himself. Additionally, God said in Genesis 12:3 when speaking of Jews, “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Warnock is pro-socialism. He cites Acts 2 as his justification. However, Acts 2:44-45, specifically depicts Christians voluntarily selling their own possessions to help travelers who stayed in Jerusalem to learn about Jesus. It doesn’t mention using government force to steal your neighbor’s stuff or income and redistribute it so that you can pretend like you’re being generous. Also 2 Thessalonians 3:10 says ‘if a man will not work, he shall not eat.” God doesn’t support socialism.
In at least one interview, Warnock said he supports “reproductive rights,” aka abortion. First off, common sense says you’re not reproducing anything if you’re killing it. Secondly, and more importantly, the Bible teaches us that God knew us and purposed our lives before we were ever born. He loves us so much, according to the Word of God, that he counts the hairs on our heads. Wow! Someone should tell Raphael Warnock about this.

Again, Warnock is a racist and an anti-Semite that shouldn’t be a pastor or a senator representing our great country.

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Re: LIBERATION THEOLOGY/BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY

Loeffler, Warnock, Collins to have first Georgia Senate debate | WGXA

“He [Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock] attended Morehouse College, then the Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

There he earned advanced degrees and found a mentor in the Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, father of Black liberation theology ...”

-—Richard Fausset, New York Times, Nov 1, 2020
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Quote from James Cone, founder of “Black Liberation Theology”:

“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”.

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other

by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989
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The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other

by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989
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SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on “Hannity & Colmes:”

WRIGHT: If you’re not going to talk about theology in context, if you’re not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the ‘60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can’t talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I’m a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]

by Fr. Robert Sirico - FrontPageMagazine.com | June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These “liberation theologians” saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers. ...”

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From David Horowitz’s DiscoverTheNetworks org:
Profile: LIBERATION THEOLOGY

“...liberation theology’s real creator was the Soviet Union’s foreign intelligence and domestic security agency, the KGB.

Patriarch Kirill, who today heads Russian Orthodox Church, secretly worked for the KGB under the code name “Mikhailov” and spent some 40 years promoting liberation theology.

Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc official ever to defect to the West, writes: “Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity.

What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians....

Its genesis was part of a highly classified Party/State Disinformation Program, formally approved in 1960 by KGB chairman Aleksandr Shelepin and Politburo member Aleksei Kirichenko, then the second in the party hierarchy after Nikita Khrushchev.”

Adds Pacepa: “In 1971, the KGB sent Kirill — who had just been elevated to the rank of archimandrite — to Geneva as emissary of the Russian Orthodox Church to the World Council of Churches.... Kirill/Mikhailov’s main task was to involve the WCC in spreading the new liberation theology throughout Latin America.

In 1975, the KGB was able to infiltrate Kirill into the Central Committee of the WCC — a position he held until he was “elected” patriarch of Russia, in 2009. ...”

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