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subear

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05/15/2008 12:22 PM
To read (and/or listen to) one of Rev. Wright's "controversal" sermons, go to : http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeremiah_wright/2008/03/the_day_of_jerusalems_fall.html Many times "the news" and political "campaign managers" take sentences out of context so that the meaning is the opposite of the original theses. Wright is not the only person who has been wronged in this way. -sb

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Joe Mainusch
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06/19/2008 10:19 AM
Posted By peoplecallmebryner on 05/14/2008 5:23 PM "Throwing him to the wolves is the easiest of responses, but also one of the most ignorant. Instead, I think we should all ask ourselves, "What is true about what Dr. Wright has said?" From his persepctive, there is bound to be truths there. " If you look hard enough, I'm sure you would be able to find many "truths" uttered by folks like Adolf Hitler as well. But what is out of context, and what IS the context? Hitler may have made the trains run on time, but the little good things he may have done are more than undone by the tremendous evils perpetrated. Likewise with Rev Wright. Please demonstrate that the soundbites in question were indeed taken out of context. I find it very difficult to believe that the ones I heard could possibly have been in a loving, Christ-like context, rather than the truly evil appearance they so clearly have.

MamaGavone
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07/03/2008 7:24 PM
What are the great and horrible evils that Rev Wright has perpetrated? If this man did nothing but spout hatred and blind, thoughtless anger from the pulpit, then how is it that his congregation grew from 87 to over 6,000 members during his pastorate? As far as I am concerned, I am perfectly fine with anger as long as it is used to get a message across that people need to hear. Rev Wright uses all his passion and all his fever to get this message out to the world: there are great injustices being done in the name of this country, in the name of god and in the name of racism--and until this stops, then I say rage on, Rev Wright! Christ may have preached peace and pacifism and lived it, but don't forget that when he needed to he showed his fire--just ask the money-changers. Now i am not about to claim that everything Rev Wright does is righteous in every way. I too looked on perplexed and even embarassed as he put on such an odd show in front of the press club. However, I have heard his sermons and I have found very little that I have disagreed with. What is wrong with telling America it needs to wake up and look at the way it conducts itself in the eyes of the rest of the world? I am not about to stand by and act like this nation is completely innocent in all it does and that other countries couldnt possibly have any reason to be angry at us. 9/11 was a living nightmare in my life as well as the rest of our lives. I cried and I wondered and I was angry too, but I also thought 'now America knows what it is like to be the one under the target, and not the one who is pointing the gun as we have been through-out much of our history.' and to this day, i have found no one who can articulate my feelings on the issue as well as Rev Wright. And his post 9/11 sermon is just one example of how he is telling the country what it needs to hear. We all hate to hear the truth and that, along with media vilification of Wright is what the firestorm around his name and reputation is all about.

"What is therefore, our task today? Shall I answer: 'Faith, hope and love?' That sounds beautiful. But I would say – courage. No - even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is recklessness ... [t]o restlessly seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the Kingdom of God." from The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne

fleckers

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07/04/2008 12:18 PM
I would encourage each of us to pray for Pastor Wright and his church in Chicago. They are a hurting bunch. And, as one who preaches each week, I would hate for my sermons to be picked apart and broadcast as sound bytes. I might well be unemployed were this the case. After all a sermon is a dialogue, and it's hopefully God's word for a particular congregation at a particular place on a particular date. Sound bytes don't fit into this dialogue, at all.

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