Wright’s grim diagnosis for America isn’t unprecedented
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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