He's back! Now it's Professor Jeremiah Wright
Former Obama pastor lectures on U.S. disintegration
Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Barack Obama’s Chicago church who infamously ranted “God d— America,” now is teaching theology “from the black perspective” at a Pennsylvania seminary run by his longtime denomination, the United Church of Christ. Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, announced it was offering this week a “one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take a Master Class from Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, pastor emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ Chicago.”
The week-long class focuses on “a survey and analysis of the many different theologies preached and practiced by the black churches in the diaspora from the days of the European enslavement of Africans through the 21st century, comparing and contrasting the broad range of theologies found in Christian congregations and denominations in Africa with black Christian churches in the diaspora.”
It emphasizes the “four black Americas” that Eugene Robinson describes, according to NPR, as “a mainstream middle-class majority with a full ownership stake in American society, a large, abandoned minority with less hope of escaping poverty and dysfunction than at any time since Reconstruction’s crushing end, a small transcendent elite with such enormous wealth, power, and influence that eve white folks have to genuflect, [and] two newly emergent groups – individuals of mixed-race heritage and communities of recent black immigrants – that make us wonder what ‘black’ is even supposed to mean.”
The cost for the Wright class at Lancaster was listed at $250 per person plus the costs of textbooks, and three credits were being offered to enrolled students at the seminary. But it was keeping the privacy level high, with a note, “Auditing the academic course is not permitted.”
The seminary described Wright as “homiletic genius, theological scholar, the pastor’s pastor” and noted his service at Trinity United in Chicago without mentioning it was the church President Obama attended.
Wright emerged as a personality during Obama’s first campaign for the presidency when it was revealed Obama sat under his teaching for two decades but didn’t recall any of Wright’s controversial statements.
In 2003, for example, Wright said from the pulpit: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God d— America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d— America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d— America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
According to an ABC News investigation at the time, in addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001, that the U.S. had brought on al-Qaida’s attacks because of its own terrorism.
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Wright said in a sermon Sept. 16, 2001. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation.
WND also reported Wright, who married the Obamas and baptized their daughters, said at a Howard University speech: “America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. … We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers.”
And at the school’s Washington, D.C., chapel, he said: “We started the AIDS virus. … We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.”
He also said: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obama-mentor-goes-black-yet-again/#IacK8kh6WvwlCUg3.99
[iframe name="pmad-in2-frame" width="160" height="365" align="top" id="pmad-in2-frame" src="javascript:(function() {document.open();document.write(" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" iframe="" >[="" ");document.close();})();"=""]<br /><br /><a href="https://www.lancasterseminary.edu/events/rev-jeremiah-wright-teaches-theology-from-the-black-perspective-2-ceus/"><font color="#0066cc">Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, announced</font></a> it was offering this week a “one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take a Master Class from Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, pastor emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ Chicago.”<br /><br />The week-long class focuses on “a survey and analysis of the many different theologies preached and practiced by the black churches in the diaspora from the days of the European enslavement of Africans through the 21st century, comparing and contrasting the broad range of theologies found in Christian congregations and denominations in Africa with black Christian churches in the diaspora.”<br /><br />It emphasizes the “four black Americas” that Eugene Robinson describes, <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/01/131695505/the-splintering-of-america-s-black-population"><font color="#0066cc">according to NPR,</font></a> as “a mainstream middle-class majority with a full ownership stake in American society, a large, abandoned minority with less hope of escaping poverty and dysfunction than at any time since Reconstruction’s crushing end, a small transcendent elite with such enormous wealth, power, and influence that eve white folks have to genuflect, [and] two newly emergent groups – individuals of mixed-race heritage and communities of recent black immigrants – that make us wonder what ‘black’ is even supposed to mean.”<br /><br />The cost for the Wright class at Lancaster was listed at $250 per person plus the costs of textbooks, and three credits were being offered to enrolled students at the seminary. But it was keeping the privacy level high, with a note, “Auditing the academic course is not permitted.”<br /><br />The seminary described Wright as “homiletic genius, theological scholar, the pastor’s pastor” and noted his service at Trinity United in Chicago without mentioning it was the church President Obama attended.<br /><br /><a href="http://wnd.com/2008/03/58858/"><font color="#0066cc">Wright emerged as a personality during Obama’s first campaign for the presidency</font></a> when it was revealed Obama sat under his teaching for two decades but didn’t recall any of Wright’s controversial statements.<br /><br />In 2003, for example, Wright said from the pulpit: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God d— America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d— America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d— America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”<br /><br />According to an ABC News investigation at the time, in addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001, that the U.S. had brought on al-Qaida’s attacks because of its own terrorism.<br /><br />“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Wright said in a sermon Sept. 16, 2001. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation.<br /><br /><a href="http://wnd.com/?p=50149"><font color="#0066cc">WND also reported Wright</font></a>, who married the Obamas and baptized their daughters, said at a Howard University speech: “America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. … We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers.”<br /><br />And at the school’s Washington, D.C., chapel, he said: “We started the AIDS virus. … We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.”<br /><br />He also said: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”<br /><br /><br />Read more at <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obama-mentor-goes-black-yet-again/#IacK8kh6WvwlCUg3.99">http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obama-mentor-goes-black-yet-again/#IacK8kh6WvwlCUg3.99</a><br /></body></html>[/iframe] |
