Religious Resignation

[kandrathe]

So, because they believe in Liberation Theology, they are heretics, full stop? That's the argument? That sounds rather intolerant to me, leaving aside the whole point that it's not your call to make.

I'm pretty conversant in discussing Gustavo Gutierrez(have his book too), and in fact devoted an entire semester course at University studying Liberation Theology in Latin America. The biggest fallacy of Liberation Theology is that it confuses earthly liberation with salvation. This link is a good overview.

Theological and political stands are at the discretion of the individual church, and this is the orthodox doctrine of the UCC.

Which is why I said only the TUC's doctrine is apostasy and heretical. I think the entire UCC leadership is questionable, and has questionable positions.

Methinks you're reading a heck of a lot into this stuff. Do you have any evidence for your charge of anti-semitism being "packaged" into Wright's speeches? Or is that just supposed to be self-evident? I can't say I've found anything he's said "hauntingly similar" to radial Islam. Your allusion of anti-semitism and anti-americanism is disturbing, to say the least.

Never mind that Wright gave Louis Farrakhan a life time achievement award. Or, printed in the June 10th, 2007 TUC bulletin an open letter to Oprah (page 8) from Ali Baghdadi. The same Ali Baghdadi who help post bail for Rezko (link) and who lists in his credentials ;"Middle East advisor to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the founder of the Nation of Islam, as well as Minister Louis Farrakhan; visited more than 80 countries throughout the world and met with many of their leaders, including Mandela, Castro, Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad, Qathafi, Abdallah ibn Abdel-Aziz, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khamenei, etc."

Back to the topic of Obama's moral courage... Here is a commentary by Jeffrey Lord a Reagan White House political director and author, he lives in Pennsylvania where he serves as president of a UCC church council and where he will shortly be installed as a board member of the United Church of Christ's Penn Central Conference.