What the media doesn't show about Rev. Wright

The short clip implies that the point of the sermon was that we brought the attacks of 9/11 on ourselves.

Turns out that in context, Rev. Wright was making a much more dangerous point than that -- God favors the peaceful, and warns against those who would lead us into war in a blind, vengeful rage.
10659says...

Not only did the media completely take his words out of context, but they failed to mention that he was quoting Ambassador Edward Peck.

Can our media get any more ridiculous?

dystopianfuturetodaysays...

Here is a fun little experiment for you: The next time someone calls Jeremiah Wright a racist, ask them to explain why. Then sit back and enjoy the stuttering and stammering.

Why this is? Because the media hasn't really backed up it's claim, they've merely repeated it over and over and over and over until many believe it to be so. (They do this all the time and we are all subject to it's influence.)

This is a smart, forward thinking, compassionate man, who is miles ahead of media punditry when it comes to domestic policy, war and race. After watching this clip, it's easy to see why the media and political establishment fears him.

I guess at the very least it's nice to see establishment attempt to justify it's fears, which is an important prerequisite to eventually confronting them.

Lately, it seems like we live in bizzaro America, where concern about racism = racism and seeking to improve your country = anti-American.

dystopianfuturetodaysays...

Atheists are, in general, quite fond of the help the poor, turn the other cheek, love thine enemy, camel through the eye of a needle type of stuff in the Bible. I suppose it's more about ideas than picking sides, which is something you should look into. Anyway.....

CaptWillardsays...

>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
Wonderful, now scores of you younglings here on Atheisift gather behind supposed "biblical preaching." Please pick a side, kthxbai?

Tell us about the good old days, oldling. You know, when a black man knew his place, and gay "losers" stayed in the closet for fear of being arrested or beaten to death. Tell us about how the good white Christian preachers in the Bible Belt used the Good Book to justify slavery and racism. These Atheisifters need to know what it is to be the same kind of upstanding Christian that you are.

smibbosays...

I'm on the side of justice tempered with mercy. When the dust settles, I'm then on the side of forgiveness. You don't have to be a theist of any kind to be on those sides.

CaptainPlanet420says...

>> ^CaptWillard:
>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
Wonderful, now scores of you younglings here on Atheisift gather behind supposed "biblical preaching." Please pick a side, kthxbai?

Tell us about the good old days, oldling. You know, when a black man knew his place, and gay "losers" stayed in the closet for fear of being arrested or beaten to death. Tell us about how the good white Christian preachers in the Bible Belt used the Good Book to justify slavery and racism. These Atheisifters need to know what it is to be the same kind of upstanding Christian that you are.


Ah yes, it's the religion of Convenience. Perhaps if the preachers of old were wrong once, another could be wrong now? But that would be inconvenient huh. Pick a side son, pick a side.

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