If it's Good Enough for Grandma....

If you can’t make it to church this morning, don’t sweat it, BwD’s gotcha covered. Barack’s Traveling Medicine Show over at Trinity has a guest speaker this morning: Rev. Michael Pfleger with today’s message of hope, unity and reconciliation.



UPDATE #1: It appears that Obama has seen and heard enough. After nearly 20 years at Trinity, Camp Obama is severing ties with the church. Obama claimed that the divisive words of former pastor Jeremiah A. Wright did not reflect his views but rejected his leaving the church for political expediency because those mean, nasty reporters poring over all of the Trinity medicine show’s sermons were just making his attendance there one big political circus. Story here.

The New York Times does their best to soft-pedal the Trin’s rhetoric: “Trinity’s pastors preach an often fiery philosophy known as Black Liberation Theology. It is not a separatist philosophy, but it argues that the poor and oppressed occupy a special place in God’s eye. Ministers are expected to provoke and push.”

Hmmm… we didn’t ask but since they brought it up…

Here’s James Cone, the Godfather of Black Liberation Theology:

"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. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”

And here’s Wright himself from his book, “A Black Theology of Liberation”: "There will be no peace in America until whites begin to hate their whiteness, asking from the depths of their being: 'How can we become black?'"

So the NYT is quite right in their assumption that BLT is not separatist but merely a socio-political construct that tailors a God to suit their agenda and asks white people to renounce their inherent racism and “go Black”. See…. Unity! Damn. No wonder self-hating white liberals love these guys.

UPDATE #2: Chicago: Is it the water..? Is it the air..? Something has to explain the lunacy that overtakes some people there. Father Pfleger offers an apology of sorts on his chuch’s webpage (and check out Black Jesus at the top of the website. There's only one Black Jesus as far as we're concerned). He’s sorry… He’s really, really sorry. In fact this whole unfortunate episode has been painful – more painful than the day his foster son was murdered. Unbelievable.