Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 321 Editor's Choice: 1
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[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you can explain how "Black Liberation Theology" isn't inheirently racist I'll pay the 3 bucks to attend...
James Cone Wikipedia
James Hal Cone (August 5, 1938 - ) is an African-American Christian theologian best known for his advocacy of Black theology, which is related to Liberation theology and the Black Power movement. He is currently the Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Jeremiah Wright has cited Cone as an influence on his thinking.
From the Cone Archive:
"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.”
"For white people, God’s reconciliation in Jesus Christ means that God has made black people a beautiful people; and if they are going to be in relationship with God, they must enter by means of their black brothers, who are a manifestation of God’s presence on earth. The assumption that one can know God without knowing blackness is the basic heresy of the white churches. They want God without blackness, Christ without obedience, love without death. What they fail to realize is that in America, God’s revelation on earth has always been black, red, or some other shocking shade, but never white. Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of man’s depravity. God cannot be white even though white churches have portrayed him as white. When we look at what whiteness has done to the minds of men in this country, we can see clearly what the New Testament meant when it spoke of the principalities and powers. To speak of Satan and his powers becomes not just a way of speaking but a fact of reality. When we can see a people who are controlled by an ideology of whiteness, then we know what reconciliation must mean. The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ"
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More of Rev Wrights Favorite "Black Theologian"
[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"All white men are responsible for white oppression. It is much too easy to say, "Racism is not my fault," or "I am not responsible for the country's inhumanity to the black man...But insofar as white do-gooders tolerate and sponsor racism in their educational institutions, their political, economic and social structures, their churches, and in every other aspect of American life, they are directly responsible for racism...Racism is possible because whites are indifferent to suffering and patient with cruelty."
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Wow, Cone is a wealth of material
[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This guys hatred knows no bounds...
The demonic forces of racism are real for the black man. Theologically, ,Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man "the devil." The white structure of this American society, personified in every racist, must be at least part of what the New Testament meant by the demonic forces."
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Just for a lark go back
[Read the article: Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and replace the word "White" with "Black" in Cone's diatribes...Now, change your mental picture of Cone from "Black" to "White"...So, if this was a White preacher spewing this garbage the looney uber left brigades heads would all simultaneously explode...