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To: Little Joe who wrote (379533)	8/24/2010 9:40:24 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 794298

Also, presumably inspired by Wright's preaching, he was baptized there in 2004. I think that any reasonable person would consider all of those facts and conclude the President is an adherent of of BLT.

To: Little Joe who wrote (379533)	9/12/2010 12:34:59 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794298

Peoples Temple sounds like it was a model for Wright's Trinity United Church. I was trying to think of a cult that reminded me of Islam and that's what brought me to their Wikipedia page. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before forming a church, Jim Jones had become enamored by communism and frustrated by the harassment communists received in the U.S.[1] This, among other things, provided a seminal inspiration for Jones; as he himself described in a biographical recording,[1][2] I decided, how can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church. So I consciously made a decision to look into that pro— that prospect. Although he feared a backlash for being a communist, Jones was surprised when a Methodist superintendent (whom he had not met through the American Communist Party) helped him into the church, despite his knowledge that Jones was a communist.[3] In 1952, Jones became a student pastor in Sommerset Southside Methodist Church in Indianapolis, but left that church because it barred him from integrating African Americans into his congregation.[2] In 1954, Jones began his own church in a rented space in Indianapolis, at first naming it the Community Unity Church.[2] en.wikipedia.org To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure.We were alienated. Obama - Dreams From My Father