Wednesday, October 15, 2008
God?
It occurs to me that the savior, the most merciful Obama never mentions God, faith, Divine Providence, our Creator. Nothing. I don't remember this ever happening with a guy who's on the verge of being president. It seems to me that even the ones who didn't necessarily believe it nevertheless paid some lip service to these notions. But not this guy. This is because God doesn't figure in his world view. His religion is based on "black liberation theology," which is not even religious; it's a political ideology, and it is essentially Marxist. Jesus is merely a prop, who can be shaped for political needs by extremists like the "Wrong Reverend" Jeremiah Wright. Anyone who doubts this can merely read anything by Wright, or the man Wright loves to quote, James Cone, or look at or listen to any sermon by or interview of Wright. It's all on the Internet, and it's free. And as believers in black liberation theology, these men are black separatists, like Malcolm X. Listen to a speech by Malcolm X; some of his speeches are on the Internet, on the American Rhetoric website. Black separatism means that blacks will be separate from other races, especially the "white" race. Well, if the president is black, and in fact a black separatist, then where does that leave those who are not black, or who do not approve of black separatism? If the black separatist president is on the inside, and is in power, then where does that leave those of us who are not black separatists and are not even black? And who are they separating from, where, and how? Where are we non-black-separatists being separated to? How could separating the black from the white race be accomplished in a nation of 300 million people? Why isn't anybody asking these questions?
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When did Barack and Michelle Obama enter the "upper class" and buy their mansion in Chicago? When did they get to that place in society where they can afford to give more money to the government (in the name of patriotism) so that the poorer elements of society can be enriched? When did they acquire the political clout that has brought them within inches of the White House? It has all happened while George W. Bush has been president. Their own life story is the greatest argument against their political agenda.
That's a great point, Dave. They both got theirs, and on Bushie's watch. Of course, they'll say they profited from their message of "hope and change."
Brian, it's interesting that you talk about black liberation theology, which is just a racialist subset of the broader "liberation theology" movement, which in turn was condemned by John Paul II for the Marxist enterprise it is. In liberation theology, the operative concept is "liberation," and not theology.
And –a hat tip here to George Orwell, who helped us all understand that to control the language is to control how people think - understand that the word “liberation” as used by liberation theologists means nothing of the sort. The aim of national liberation movements (with which liberation theology has always been aligned) is not to “liberate” anyone but to transfer power from one ruling elite to another. Once the power exchange has been completed and the old elite lined up against the wall, the people (remember them, those on whose behalf the liberation has been consummated?), are just as oppressed as they ever were. More so, for their new masters deny them even their god.
Let's be clear: True liberation is a desirable goal and oppressed peoples all over the world yearn for it. But liberation theology is aligned with an ideology that is the most insidiously oppressive ever devised by the mind of man. Why insidious? Because it promises so much, its betrayal is all the more bitter.
When you add the racial element to the liberation theology mix, you very quickly descend into realms of bottomless irrationality, as you note so effectively in your original post.
Fantastic comment, Bill, about the larger "liberation" ideology.
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