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| Rev. Wright's heresy |
| 2008-04-08 |
| Kathy Shaidle, "Five Feet of Fury" blog A follow-up to her article "Obama's Church: A Gospel of Hate" I wasn't able to squeeze in anything about a heretical aspect of Wright/Cone's teachings and attitudes that I haven't seen anywhere else. (Perhaps because I'm seeing a heresy where none exists...) But take Rev. Wright's overheated interview with Sean Hannity over a year ago. He asks petulantly again and again: "Have you ever read XYZ? Do you know anything about XYZ?" And Cone himself has been quoted as saying (again, somewhat snidely): "I'm sure Obama would be able to understand black liberation theology if it were explained to him." I detect a whiff of Gnosticism in all this. The oldest heresy, Gnositicism is (to vastly oversimplify) the very unChristian notion that Jesus' teachings are only comprensible to an enlightened elite few. That Jesus preached to thousands of ordinary people, and interacted with people from every strata of society is something Gnostics conveniently ignore. The impulse to Gnosticism is stronger than common sense or the (mundane) facts: it is the very human desire to feel superior to "the crowd". And so it will never be completely wiped out, even at this late date. That two men with PhD's present themselves as "men of the people" and leaders of a perpetual victim group, while preaching an elitist theology is pretty comical. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 No surprise this bottom rotted catfish was a black Islam style Muslim in his youth. Press covering that little fact? |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-04-08 12:30 |
| #1 Kathy may sniff Gnosticism. I smell a gooey rascist socialistic postmodernism defining the Bible to be just what we want it to be today. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-04-08 11:49 |