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05.03.2008 5:30 pm

Wright’s grim diagnosis for America isn’t unprecedented

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

How awful are Jeremiah Wright’s words about God damning America?

In the Bible “damn” is not a dirty word. It’s a hospital word, a diagnosis, a grim diagnosis: “patient is terminal.” Why? Because God won’t be the doctor anymore. That’s “damn” in Biblical God-talk. God gives up and says: “Since you won’t say ‘THY will be done,’ I say to you, ‘OK, then THY will be done.’  I’m out of here.”

Those ancient ten plagues afflicting Egypt were God giving up on Egypt–aka damnation. When Egypt protected the Abrahamic new-comers, God blessed Egypt.

Big time! But when Egypt started enslaving them, God pulled the protection-plug. “Let nature take its course. I’ll not intervene. Your will be done.” A damn diagnosis–also big time> Glub, glub, glub in the Red Sea.

Everybody’s got a list of America’s plagues. For starters: Iraq quagmire, health care chaos, crumbling capitalism, gas prices, Wall Street hanky-panky, drug-dealers, drug prices, melting glaciers, super-bacteria, multi-trillion national debt, and more. Does that signal God abandoning (surely not blessing) America, or what?

Let’s get the presidential hopefuls to talk about this. All three claim a faith with Biblical roots. Let’s hold their feet to the fire. Is Wright’s  proposed Biblical diagnosis nonsense or truth? And does it matter?

Response so far is: “If you don’t like the message, kill the messenger.”

Sadly, by Obama too. Which, of course, is stupidity, though it happens all the time. Clinton and McCain too patently deny Wright’s “damn diagnosis.” But denial of a grim diagnosis, without bothering to check it out, is dumb, dumb,  dumb. Who wants (another) dumb president? What if the prognosis really is glub, glub, glub?

Most Americans don’t know that Abraham Lincoln once diagnosed America just like that, midstream in the Civil War. “God has deserted both north and south.

That’s the deep root of our killing each other.” Wright is talking like  Lincoln–and Lincoln was the first ever Republican president! Not dumb, dumb, dumb at all.

Edward H. Schroeder

St. Louis

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10:09 am May 5th, 2008

Rev. Wright is an Anti-American, racist that is also a clown.

— JD
11:48 am May 5th, 2008

Ed, do not use the Lord’s name in vain-thank you.

— Ruth
11:51 am May 5th, 2008

Ed, you make some very good points. That’s why when all the broohaha started over the Rev. Wright, I was hoping that someone, somewhere would play the entire sermon so the words could be put into perspective, and even when that happened, the political pundits still didn’t get it.

I’m not so sure the Rev. is anti-American, so much as anti-political correctness.

The USA is not always right in the policies it supports. Perhaps God is using the good Reverend to get people to discuss these things, to make us hold our government leaders more accountable for the choices/votes they make.

I’m disappointed that Mr. Obama felt the need to distance himself from Rev. Wright.

— Momof1girl
11:59 am May 5th, 2008

Number 4, Momof1girl:

“That’s why when all the broohaha started over the Rev. Wright, I was hoping that someone, somewhere would play the entire sermon so the words could be put into perspective, and even when that happened, the political pundits still didn’t get it.”

The words have always been in perspective. Clearly, the profanity and Marxism is more appropriate to a Havana. Cuba brothel than in a sermon attended by children.

— Iconoclastic Sage
2:06 pm May 5th, 2008

Wright is a racist pimp. He purveys black liberation theology. His congregation funds his mansion and stable of luxury cars. I would bet he has a fur coat and a pink felt hat in his closet. It is really quite humorous to watch the left wing scramble to excuse racial bigotry and hate which was once their target.

— Bb
2:20 pm May 5th, 2008

I find it hysterical when somebody like Rev. Wright is labeled a Marxist. There cannot be a “Christian Marxist”. Anybody who thinks it’s possible never read Marx.

A Christian Socialist, however, is perfectly possible, and has strong Biblical foundations, particularly in the book of Acts. Some of the Old Testament texts on how society is to be organized is pretty socialist, as well. For example, the idea that every 50 years all debts are canceled and all mortgages rescinded is an extremely socialist statement, is it not?

— hs
5:32 pm May 5th, 2008

Number 7, hs:

“I find it hysterical when somebody like Rev. Wright is labeled a Marxist”

Would it suppress a few chuckles if I had written Maoist instead?

— Iconoclastic Sage
6:37 pm May 5th, 2008

Sage: by definition, one cannot both be an atheist (and I would argue that the Buddhist is an atheist) and a Christian. So, Mao was an atheist, he was certainly not Buddhist, so no, it wouldn’t suppress a single giggle.

Call Wright what he is: a Christian Socialist.

— hs
7:56 pm May 5th, 2008

Right. It’s completely out of the blue that a 60+ black relgious man is pissed at white America. Please. I’ll bet you could fill a bath tub with the salive produced by Hannity and Rush when they got wind of this crap. I can’t believe anything that is said in a church is actually taken seriously outside of it reguarding any subject.

#6 Bb,

Exactly how would he differ from any other fat cat seller of hope with a flock of sheep to donate their 10% in reguards to what luxury items he possesses?

I don’t condone necessarily what he said, at least not parts of it, but it’s splitting hairs compared to Pat Robertson or Hagee or Falwell, or any other back woods hellfire and brimstone preacher that makes the same kind of comments daily.

— JimmyRussell
10:37 pm May 5th, 2008

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