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Posted on May 23, 2008 at 14:15:00 EST
Soon after Barack Hussein Obama moved to Chicago in the late 1980s, he joined the Trinity United Church of Christ. In a World Net Daily article, it was reported that the first paragraph of the church's website stated: "We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian. ... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community." The same article also revealed the following 10-point "vision" of the church:
1. A congregation committed to ADORATION. First of all, it is interesting to note is that even though the name of this church (Trinity United Church of Christ) implies that it is open to everyone, this church appears to be an exclusively black church. It is rather strange that a man who would want to run for president of the USA, a country composed of a variety of races and cultures, would belong to a church where non-blacks don't appear to be welcome. In Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, people aren't judged by the color of their skin. These religions believe in a God over all humans, and not just certain groups of people. While it is true that in the past, there were white-only churches, such racist institutions are no longer tolerated and there is no doubt that if something like the following was stated on a church's website, there would be mass outrage: "We are a congregation which is Unashamedly White and Unapologetically Christian. ... Our roots in the White religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an European people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a White worship service and ministries which address the White Community." Indeed, one would be outraged if the above was found on any church's website, for a church is a place of worship for all Christians. Thus, we can already see that the Trinity United Church of Christ is as racist as any "United KKK Church of Christ" would be. It only gets stranger with the Trinity United Church of Christ. Point 4 of the 10-point vision states that the church is a "congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA." It appears that not only is this church racist, but, it also seems to be more focused on Africa than God. The 10-point vision and the first paragraph on the website of the Trinity United Church of Christ belong to a movement called "Black Liberation Theology", which is specifically the theology to which this church has been adhering to since Jeremiah Wright became its pastor in 1972. Founder and systemizer of Black Liberation Theology James Cone sums up Black Liberation Theology as follows: "Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love." In other words, Black Liberation Theology preaches that God must only love people who are born with black skin and hate those who are born with white skin, and, if He does not want to exterminate people born with white skin off the face of the Earth, He should be killed. This is what the Trinity United Church of Christ embraced in 1972, with the arrival of Jeremiah Wright, who adhered to this black supremacist philosophy of James Cone. In fact, James Cone has explicitly stated that the Trinity United Church of Christ most embodies his message. Jeremiah Wright himself, has also said, on numerous occasions, that his "church" adheres to "Black Liberation Theology". Thus, it can be surmised that the Trinity United Church of Christ is not only racist and black supremacist, but it is also in support of genocide against all whites. The agenda of this "church" should be clear to anyone. When Barack Hussein Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ, Jeremiah Wright had been the pastor of this "church" for roughly fifteen years. It is rather strange that he did not "notice" what this "church" preached at the start, as he claims. Moreover, Barack Hussein Obama has stated that one of the main reasons for his joining of the Trinity United Church of Christ was Rev. Jeremiah Wright himself. In fact, Barack Hussein Obama established a friendship with Jeremiah Wright and even used the name of one of Jeremiah Wright's sermons for the title of his book ("The Audacity of Hope")! Also, Obama has referred to Jeremiah Wright as his "mentor" and "role model". This same "mentor" and "role model", Jeremiah Wright has constantly made inflammatory and hateful statements in many of his sermons: "The government gives them [black Americans] the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America – that's in the Bible – for killing innocent people. God damn America, as long as she pretends to act like she is God, and she is supreme." - 2003 "The government lied about Pearl Harbor. They knew the Japanese were going to attack. Governments lie. The government lied about the Gulf of Tonkin. They wanted that resolution to get us in the Vietnam War. Governments lie. The government lied about Nelson Mandela and our CIA helped put him in prison and keep him there for 27 years." - 2003 "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." - September 2001 "In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." "Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run! ... We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God." "The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism." "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." - September 2001 "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." "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied." - September 2001 "Black women are being raped daily in Darfur, Sudan, in the Congo and in Sub-Saharan Africa. That doesn't make news... ...One 18-year-old white girl from Alabama gets drunk on a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and 'gives it up' while in a foreign country, and that stays in the news for months! Maybe I am missing something!" (on Natalee Holloway) - August 2005 In a news interview with Sean Hannity, Jeremiah Wright implied that if one has not read a book by James Cone, then they are not qualified to understand Black Liberation Theology. In James Cone's 1970 book, "A Black Theology of Liberation", the following is stated: "There will be no peace for America until white people begin to hate their white-ness, asking from the depth of their being, 'How can we become black?'" In addition to adhering to James Cone's fascist theology and making hateful statements, Jeremiah Wright has supported America's enemies, including communists and Islamic terrorists. In fact, Jeremiah Wright, along with known anti-Semite, black supremacist, and racist Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan visited Libya during the 1980s to meet with Muammar al-Gaddafi, while the nation was both harboring and supporting terrorist groups, as well as engaging in terrorism directly by itself, against the West. He also visited communist Cuba. In late 2007, Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ gave Farrakhan a Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeter award. Just a month earlier, Louis Farrakhan had stated the following: "Do you know some of these satanic Jews have taken over BET [the Black Entertainment Network] ?... ...Everything that we built, they have. The mind of Satan now is running the record industry, movie industry, and television. And they make us look like we're the murderers; we look like we're the gangsters, but we're punk stuff." Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam have had a cozy relationship with the Trinity United Church of Christ and Jeremiah Wright for quite a long time. Louis Farrakhan has also endorsed Obama. Interestingly, Obama participated in Farrakhan's 1995 Million Man March and, according to some claims, he even helped organize it. When evidence of Obama's connections with Louis Farrakhan began to become known to the general public, Obama stated: "I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan". However, Obama did not disassociate himself from Louis Farrakhan, nor condemn Farrakhan's countless black supremacist and anti-white statements. In March of 2008, it was revealed that the Trinity United Church of Christ also published a Hamas terror manifesto, which "defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group's official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America's Declaration of Independence"! Interestingly, in May of 2008, the Obama Campaign severed ties with their Middle East Policy Adviser, Robert Malley, after it became public knowledge that he not only supported negotiating with Hamas, but even held private meetings with the terrorist organization! The big question is: Did Obama actually know that the church he attended for twenty years, the Trinity United Church of Christ, preached hatred, intolerance, genocide, anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and supported terrorists? If he did, in fact, know, then we are forced to conclude that he must support the malicious agenda of the Trinity United Church of Christ and the Black Liberation Theology movement. In addition to attending and supporting the Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama also supported (or at least was involved) in some of the Nation of Islam's and its leader Louis Farrakhan's activities. If we were to assume that Obama did not know about what the Nation of Islam or Louis Farrakhan stood for, Obama must have either extremely poor judgment. Thus, either Obama has extremely poor judgment or he's working against the United States. Let's explore the first possibility: If Obama was not able to figure out what the Trinity United Church of Christ, Jeremiah Wright, the Nation of Islam, and Louis Farrakhan all stood for and supported, then just how would he be able to be the president of the United States? Almost anyone should be able to figure out that Trinity United Church of Christ, Jeremiah Wright, the Nation of Islam, and Louis Farrakhan are anti-Semitic, anti-American, hateful, intolerant, and in support of Islamic terrorists and communists. In this case, the evidence is all over the place. However, when it comes to the intentions of certain nations, certain groups, and even individuals, it is much harder to understand what those are. If Barack Hussein Obama could not figure out what Trinity United Church of Christ, Jeremiah Wright, the Nation of Islam, and Louis Farrakhan stood for, then he certainly won't be able to figure out what Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other such nations stand for, as well as their intentions. And now, the second possibility: When, in early 2008, the public became increasingly aware of the hateful and racist statements made by Jeremiah Wright, Obama denied ever hearing any such statements, stating in an interview with Keith Olbermann: "I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally, either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew. He always preached the social gospel and was sometimes controversial in the same way that many people who'd speak out on social issues are controversial. But these particular statements that had been gathered are ones that I strongly objected to and strongly condemned. Had I heard them in church, I would have expressed that concern directly to Reverend Wright. So, I didn't [become] familiar with these until recently." However, Obama disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation at his campaign announcement in Springfield in February of 2007 because Obama thought that Wright's sermons could come across as a little "rough." Thus, Obama must've known where Wright really stood before the controversy broke. Furthermore, when Jeremiah Wright left, and was replaced by Otis Moss, hatred and intolerance continued to be preached at the Trinity United Church of Christ. At the time, Obama called Otis Moss a "wonderful young pastor". However, this "wonderful young pastor" stated that "no one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching", in reference to Jeremiah Wright's departure from the Trinity United Church of Christ. Moss also quoted the 'F--- AmeriKKKa' rap song in one of his sermons, referring to the United States as the "U.S. of KKK-A." Thus, it is rather hard to believe that Obama did not know anything. Above all, his explanations and defenses against allegations of knowing that his church and pastor preached and stood for hatred began to vary. His failure to distance himself from the church swiftly and decisively is also somewhat strange. In his speech on race, Obama stated: "As imperfect as he [Jeremiah Wright] may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthens my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother." He has also stated the following about Jeremiah Wright: "Well, you know, previously, there were a bunch of sermons that had been spliced from a collection of sermons for 30 years. And that's not who I thought he was. That's not what I thought defined him. He's somebody who's a Marine, he's somebody who has served on city colleges boards, somebody who was a respected pillar in the community." It is rather interesting that even after Wright's hateful statements became news, Obama still valued Wright as much as his own grandmother. He also continued to speak of the "good" that Wright had done, while claiming that he had not been aware of Wright's Nazi-like rhetoric, even though he specifically disinvited him from his campaign announcement in Springfield. It wasn't until Wright's April 27, 2008 publicly broadcast rant at the NAACP that Obama finally cut ties with him. This was several months after the Wright Controversy broke. Thus, Obama only cut ties with Jeremiah Wright several months after the public heard his friend, mentor, "role model", and pastor yell "God Damn America", blame white people for 9/11, make anti-Semitic remarks, make anti-white remarks, and support terrorism! Moreover, in his 1993 memoir "Dreams from My Father", Obama "recounts in vivid detail his first meeting with Wright in 1985. The pastor warned the community activist that getting involved with Trinity might turn off other black clergy because of the church's radical reputation." Thus, it is evident that Obama was not in the dark about the more controversial aspects of the agenda of the church or Jeremiah Wright from the very start. Furthermore, Obama also mentioned that Jeremiah Wright had married him and Michelle and baptized both of his children. Thus, it is clear that the entire Obama family must have attended this church, meaning that his children and his wife may have very well been exposed to at least some of the hateful sermons, if not all of them. Indeed, Michelle Obama herself made some interesting statements about her country on February 18, 2008: "What we have learned over the past year is that hope is making a comeback. And let me tell you something – for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment." In short, Michelle Obama was frustrated with the same country that allowed for her to attend Princeton University and Harvard University, become rich, and end up with a major chance to become first lady! Apparently, she has also been frustrated with the American people - until now, that is, because now, they are "hungry for change". This is the same kind of anti-American rhetoric that one could expect to hear at one of Jeremiah Wright's or Otis Moss' sermons. How is it possible for Barack Hussein Obama to not notice that almost everyone around him seems to preach anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, intolerance, hatred, and support terrorism? Can we really believe that this overwhelming mountain of evidence exposing these connections in depth is all just one giant coincidence? Did Obama really not know what Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ stood for and continue to stand for? Did he really not know what Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam stood for when he marched with them and supported them?
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