Letters to the Editor
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Insight?
I was just over at the On Faith website and found an interesting response by the Reverend James Anderson about Reverend Wright that might help provide some insight. I know it helped me. I hope he won't mind my presentation of it here.
The Question: How should Barack Obama have responded to inflammatory remarks made by his former pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright? Are you responsible for what your spiritual leader says from the pulpit?
I am a 75-year-old, white, male, a proud veteran of the Marine Corps., a retired Episcopal clergyman, and I speak as one who loves this country. Oh how I wish the congregation my wife and I attend had a minister like Dr. Wright. For the past 14 years I have been a sermon listener rather than a sermon preacher. Only once in those 14 years have I heard a sermon that was clear enough and strong enough that real disagreement was even possible. I got so excited I made the mistake of expressing my vociferous disagreement at the door of the church rather than waiting for a more opportune occasion.
Has Dr. Wright used language which I consider needlessly inflammatory and divisive? Of course he has. Has he made statements with which I am in strong disagreement? Seemingly he has done so on many occasions. I am also sure that Dr. Wright cares deeply about the people to whom he has ministered and works hard to relate the Christian message to the community and nation.
On April 4, 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King gave a very strong sermon opposing the U. S. policy on the Vietnam War. I had great respect for Dr. King and remember being quite disturbed by some of what he said. Dr. King called this nation “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world” and said we were in the grips of “creating a hell for the poor.” He said American life was characterized by “racism, extreme materialism and militarism.” Dr. King stated we must seek “significant and profound change in American life and policy.” The events of the last five years seem to me to lend great weight to Dr. King’s words.
Dr. King also said that “the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony” and especially in a time of war. Both Dr. Wright and Dr. King have demonstrated the courage to speak, to go on the record for all to hear. Our country would be greatly helped if more of our leaders, political and religious, had the courage to speak from the heart and not for the polls.
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Again, Miscreant! Libtard!
The moonbat TelePrompTer from Hell never stops. You have the floor, sourmiscreant:
"@infidel2000bc
Well, since you have now brought in Nazis, it is pointless to talk to you. But, just for the record, every year at passover Jews remember how they were slaves in Egypt and were brought out of Egypt, given their laws in the desert, and brought to the promised land partly as a reward for being slaves unto pharoah. It is arguable that their being freed from slavery is the incident which largely defines who the Jewish people are. In other words, the power of slavery on a people should never be dismissed as off-handedly as you do. The effects arene't forgotten even MILLENIA after the fact. NEVER use Jews as a way of claiming slavery wasn't so bad and why can't blacks just get over it."
Yes, O Great Bent-Over One, the Jews DO remember their slavery in Egypt, every Passover. But they do not dwell on it, or wallow in it to the point they rob their children of their futures by poisoning their minds against Egypt and Egyptians. That pain belongs to their ancestors, not them. BTW I never said slavery wasn't so bad. It was horrific, brutal and inhuman. But the planned and premeditated extermination and genocide of an entire race is FAR worse. Or do you disagree?
"A racist and an anti-semite."
The epithets are piling up. What are you going to call me next that's even worse? White boy?
"And I guess the fact that those 3000 people murdered on 9/11 have been used as an excuse to kill 10-100 times that many civilians in Iraq doesn't bother you very much. Not to mention the estimates of how many Iraqis had died before our latest invasion from the destruction we had caused to their infrastructure from the previous war and the years of sanctions. You probably cheered as we were bombing them over these last five years. Or what about your precious Reagan selling arms to Iran while supporting Saddam and supplying him with weapons of mass destruction? Most of Saddam's crimes were being actively supported by our two-faced government. Or our support of the Taliban and Osama in the early days."
You wouldn't know this, miscreant, but history breeds strange bedfellows. We were Allies with Uncle Joe Stalin against the Germans and Japanese until both their foul empires were smashed. Then Stalin tried to take their place, first by seizing the Eastern Bloc countries and then trying to conquer the rest of Europe. Now the Germans and Japanese are our allies against yet another totalitarian power grab. And we even supported the Taliban and Al Qaeda when the Russians went for Afghanistan. We LEFT when that war was over. We went back after 9/11 when it was time for THEIR chickens to come home to roost.
We were with Saddam in the Iran-Iraq War because, as history has shown, Islamism presents a most clear and present danger.
I think the 241 dead Marines in Beirut were proof of that (an event I'm sure you commemmorate with glee, as Rev. Wright would). And then we turned on Saddam after he invaded and raped Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia with the same. That was wrong?
"Evil doesn't excuse evil... but evil gets evil back in kind and one shouldn't be all that surprised when the nasty, immoral, vicious people you were using to do your dirty work end up turning on you in the long run. Rabid dogs will bite their masters, and those who stir up hornets nests shouldn't be so surprised when they get stung. The people in the towers were murdered partly because of our own government's hubris.
Which is all Rev. Wright was saying, as far as I can tell."
No, sour, the Reverend Wright, like you, cheered those 3000 deaths. We deserved it. God Damn America, right? Also, I do my own dirty work. On websites like this when confronted with deranged BDS moonbats who have absolutely no concept of reality or the world they live in. SOMEBODY has to.
BTW I've been to 20 countries, including two in Asia under Martial Law. I've seen the world for what it is. Have you ever even made it out of your mother's basement?