06-04-2008, 07:10 PM
Quote: How is he a heretic, and who are you to say so when the church he is "heretical" from, the UCC, seems to still think he's just dandy.The core of the main heresy is that the major tenet of all Liberation Theology is that "God" is only concerned with the oppressed. Maybe because the TUC is the largest UCC congregational church. And, who knows why they cast a blind eye to the truth?
Wright metaphorically characterizes the US government as the biblical Rome, and all who stand with the US as the biblical Roman oppressors. Also, the handy anti-semitism in this characterization is that it was the Jews who called for the crucifixion of Christ, thereby you can package all your struggle/troubles into either anti-americanism or anti-semitism. The dangerous parallel that is a haunting similarity of this metaphor is what is preached by radical Islam everyday. This is why Michele Obama has never been proud of her country, and why Jesse Jackson in an ad lib moment let his racist slip show.
Here is what is reported; The last straw was the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest who, while guest preaching at Trinity, mocked Hillary Clinton for feeling entitled to the presidency because she's white and the wife of a former president.
Obama, in explaining why he had left the church, said the Pfleger controversy had convinced him that, as long as he remained in the congregation, he would have to respond to things that were said from the pulpit -- no matter who said them -- and that the issue would continue to be a distraction for his campaign.
I say he is a man of expedience and political savvy, not unlike his rival Hillary. Check out; Sen. Obama's Dreams from My Father--Is he really different from Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr.?