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Friday March 14, 2008
Category: Democrats"U.S. of KKK-A"
That's what Barack Obama's pastor and spiritual mentor has called the nation that Barack Obama seeks to lead. ABC News has it on video. He's also shown blaming the US Government for selling drugs to black people.
Ahem, well, Senator, what say you?
You know, to be perfectly fair, I don't find anything wrong with Rev. Wright speaking prophetically about God's judgment on a nation for its sins. I was doing so last week. That's what the prophets of the Hebrew Bible did. If we're going to damn that, then we're going to have to throw out much of the Bible.
But here's the difference: does the word of prophetic judgment come from a place of love, or of hatred? Is the prophet speaking because he wants to see the nation or people he loves repent of its sins and embrace righteousness, or is he taking pleasure in the suffering of judgment he expects the Almighty to visit upon the nation?
Watching that video, do you get the idea that the Rev. Wright loves his country, or despises it?
Filed Under: casting stones, Jeremiah Wright, prophetic judgment
posted by Rod Dreher @12:43pm Permalink 
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Look, I've never voted for a Republican for President in my life, but I'm considering voting for John McCain this fall, unless I hear more from Obama that explains his association with a man I regard as a delusional crack-pot.
If you are prepared to vote for McCain over this, ma'am, then you deserve exactly what you get if McCain is the first Republican you ever vote for. Please do more research than what you read on a conservative blog and consider--in the whole range of issues that matter--whether what a guy's minister says is more important than war, economics, torture, and health care.
Posted by: Daniel | March 14, 2008 4:51 PM
I think this threatens Obama more than the Hagee/McCain connection. Obama's only serious Christian (or Religious Right) tie is through this church and this man, whom he often calls his spiritual mentor.
Posted by: John | March 14, 2008 5:48 PM
On a whole range of issues, I'm not sure I agree with Obama's positions, but I will evaluate them before I make a final decision. As I've said elsewhere, McCain and Hillary Clinton both strike me as flawed adults. I'd infinitely prefer to have a flawed adult in the presidency to someone who promises the moon and can't possibly deliver it.
Posted by: Alicia | March 14, 2008 6:09 PM
Did he promise the moon or did his detractors claim he promised the moon?
Steve
Posted by: Steve | March 14, 2008 6:30 PM
ROFLMAO!!
Libs crack me up!
Posted by: Max Schadenfreude | March 14, 2008 11:50 PM
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