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03-25-2008, 01:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-25-2008, 01:23 PM by kandrathe.)
Quote:All I ask is that you provide some evidence that either something he said led to people commiting violent acts, or quote something he said which is obviously an incitement to violence. Either would do, but as far as I can tell, the evidence does not exist. He has controversial opinions, and many bizarre opinions, but I have not yet seen evidence of violent ones.
This is not a "higher standard of proof". This is actually an extremely low standard, since all it takes is a small example, either in words or in deeds. But you have not yet met this standard, or any standard, unless innuendo and supposition count these days.
-Jester
As Pete said... "Absence of proof is not proof of absence." Would you have condemned Hitler after he wrote "Mein Kampf", but before he acted out his sick manifesto? Would you attribute the writings/preaching of Louis Farrakhan to anti-white violence? I'm sorry, but I can't "mind read" all the black on white violent offenders (even those who are caught) to determine their motivations. No, I don't know of any incidents where people marched out of TUCC after a Wright sermon and then violently targeted white people. There are plenty of folks whose hands are free of blood, yet inspire and promote a violent separatist world view. Jeremiah Wright, James Cone, Dwight Hopkins and Louis Farrakhan are such men, and they are the intelligentsia behind a movement whose goals are black supremacy and not equality.
Quote:In the black liberation theology taught by Wright, Cone and Hopkins, Jesus Christ is not for all men, but only for the oppressed: In the New Testament, Jesus is not for all, but for the oppressed, the poor and unwanted of society, and against oppressors ... Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not [Cone]. In this respect black liberation theology is identical in content to all the ethnocentric heresies that preceded it. Christianity has no use for the nations, a "drop of the bucket" and "dust on the scales", in the words of Isaiah. It requires that individuals turn their back on their ethnicity to be reborn into Israel in the spirit. That is much easier for Americans than for the citizens of other nations, for Americans have no ethnicity. But the tribes of the world do not want to abandon their Gentile nature and as individuals join the New Israel. Instead they demand eternal life in their own Gentile flesh, that is, to be the "Chosen People".
Quote:Black theology 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. 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.-- Cone
I suggest you read up more on "Black Liberation Theology" and its goals. To me it is no different than any other racial hate mongering garbage which justifies violence in the name of "struggle".
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.