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Editor’s Opinion by: Gilbert Purtee
Barack Obama’s letter of resignation (if that’s what you want to call it) from being a member of The Trinity United Church of Christ was leaked to the press (CNN) and thus, Obama felt compelled to hold a press conference during a campaign stop in South Dakota today.
The reason for his resignation, Obama says, is because the church and the people who have spoken there, have caused riffs in the continuity and purpose of his campaign. Further more, his campaign has caused undue pain and heartache to other members of the Trinity Church Family.
Barack Obama also stated that he did not understand why his church and Jeremiah Write, his long time friend and Pastor had fallen under such scrutiny by the media and the public. He said he was prepared for many things to be brought out about his past, his friends and such but the onslaught of the media towards him and his church affiliation had caught him by surprise. He admitted that he would not “denounce” The Trinity United Church of Christ because the church was not in need of being denounced.
Oh, contraire, Mr. Obama. Your church needs to be denounced.
Church’s preach and teach about God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit.
Statements from the pulpit should be what the Bible teaches, what God teaches and/or what Jesus taught. These things maybe open to interpretation, but are rarely considered controversial.
So why is his church and Obama’s Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright considered so controversial and should be denounced? The pulpit of any church should never be used for political speech. It should never be used to teach hate, used to mock others (even if it was directed at Hillary) or degrade people who do not believe as you do. It maters not if the congregation is white or black, Jew or gentile, man or woman, young or old; hate toward others has no place in a worship service and when there is, it draws attention. When these hateful views are taught over and over again, there is a great danger of losing the original charter of the church, that of which is to preach the Gospel and win souls to Christ.
A church without Christ is nothing more than a club.
A church that preaches hate is nothing more than a gang.
A church that believes blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God Damn America” is nothing more than a clique.
A church that teaches conspiracy, treachery and collusion is nothing more than a league of hatred.
This, Mr. Obama, is why your Pastor Write and his Trinity Church of God are suspect and why your record as a member of such an organization for more than 20 years raises the question, “Do you feel like singing, ‘God Damn America’?”
For those who came to the Trinity Church to hear God’s Word, just sat there and listened to the hate, cheered at the mocking and the damning of others and still did nothing, they too should be denounced.
If you, Mr. Obama, sat there and listened to it and did nothing, you should be denounced as well.
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Bravo, Gib! I agree wholeheartedly! My jaw almost hit the floor when I heard the reverend, and I use the term very loosely, use profanity from the pulpit in his diatribe against Hillary. And I’m not a supporter of Hillary Clinton.
You may notice I didn’t call the reverend’s message a sermon, because it WASN’T. A sermon consists of a God called, Spirit filled messenger declaring God’s Word. It is NOT profanity-laced politics delivered to an assembly of so-called Believers who have failed to adhere to the separation of Church and State that most of them purport to uphold.
Separation of Church and State was violated in this instance at its most basic level. Politics “preached” from the pulpit in a “church”? Blasphemy according to their own bylaws and they fail to grasp and enforce their own beliefs!
One thing that bothers me: How long has this “reverend” been “preaching” politics from the pulpit using such vitriol and profanity? Is this a relatively new thing, or did Obama sit under similar messages and affirm the “reverend’s” messages or at the very least condone them multiple times while he was a member of that “church”? Not to mention the rest of the congregation!
Bottom line: the “reverend” has the right to his political beliefs and the right to express them, but it shouldn’t be done in any assembly that purports to be a Church of God. Period.
If he’d delivered the same message in a parking lot or another public place I’d still disagree with his use of profanity while presenting himself as a preacher of God’s Word, but I’d fight for his right to believe and vote as he chooses.
You have a God given right to be wrong if you so choose.
I don’t often comment on politics, Gib. But this really struck a nerve, as you can see.
Looks to me like you took a bead and pulled the trigger.. Hit the target too, right square in the 10X…
Obama is a pandering politico that will throw anyone under the bus if it will take him to the Oval Office, and that begs this…
So, a couple of moonbat, hypocrite, so-called preachers spoke out from the pulpit and it might hurt Obama’s chances at the Oval Office, the SOB (Obama) throws em BOTH under the bus for the sake of the campaign…
God forbid he should get elected, but suppose he does, and suppose some clown like Hugo Chavez criticizes the USA from the podium of the U.N.
Is Obama going to throw the USA under the bus??
I think that’s a fair question myself…
You know, my dad was a Baptist preacher. I never once heard him bring a political view into his pulpit.
He had them, political views and beliefs, but never voiced them inside the church.
In the church building, he preached the gospel. He taught as the Holy Spirit lead him in every sermon.
But, he voted, he listened to debates, he read the news, he expressed his concerns when asked at the barber shop and he was pasionate about his moral and political obligations. He never let that stand in the way of preaching God’s word.
Like Jesus tossing the merchants from the temple, these men should not be selling political views from the pulpit.
I totally agree with your post. You hit the nail on the head.
We get politics everywhere. Let the Lord God Almighty have his Temples and keep the money changers out.
My Bible teaches the love of Christ. Anyone who dares to stand before a congregation that wants to hear the word of God, and preaches the hate of Satan is a hypocrite and should be knocked off the podium if he doesn’t have enough sense to step down.
As for Obama, he has already cut his own thr*oat, so to speak. Too frequently his tongue has run amuck and in doing so has given us a good look at what makes him tick.
For those who are not able to see it, there is more going on behind the Obama scenes than you can possible immagine.
Great post BDG. Thanks again for sharing.
I agree with you and I also agree with Rev. Wright…Oh, I certainly don’t agree with Rev. Wright’s “Teachings” (if you can call them that), I agree with him that Barrack Hussein Obama will say what any POLITICIAN would say in Obama’s position. It was a short time ago that Obama “Could no more denounce Rev. Wright than he could his own white grandmother”…and the new pastor of Trinity “Rev. Moss is a bright young pastor” and “I will not turn my back on the Trinity Community”…Obama is back peddling faster than Bill Clinton on Monica Lewinski!!!! The only thing that is “Shocking” to Obama is the fact that he can’t make something disappear just by calling it a “Distraction” and flowery speeches are not enough to “Close the deal”. Obama was supposed to be a “Shoe in” against McCain…barring McCain doing something stupid, (Like telling us we need amnesty for illegals and Global Warming is real…sarcasim intentional), the Presidency is McCain’s for losing.