Wright Is A Radical Embarrassment

While making dinner this evening I was cutting up veggies for a shrimp stir fry, turned on the TV and found myself watching Hannity and Colmes. In the latest segment of discussion on the show, I got to thinking about the "Rev." Jeremiah Wright, his appearance and the words he shared at the National Press Club meeting this morning. Other bloggers, like Michele Malkin, have covered what Wright said much more extensively than I have here here at Talk Wisdom.

I truly believe that when all is said and done about this man - the ultimate point of it all seems to be that this man is just plain prideful, arrogant, and hopelessly selfish. Wright is currently reveling in his newfound fame and doesn't give a hoot about how much his continual and awful bathering is hurting Barack Obama's campaign.

I am no fan of Obama. Everyone who reads here knows that. However, what I see in this "pastor" is that he is keeping himself in the limelight for his own self-aggrandisement. This means that he is using his current position as a "former" pastor (albeit current "preacher") for the political expediency of the hard leftists in this country. What's really terrible (IMHO) is the fact that he is doing this in such in a way that unequivocably shows his intent on using God to force and promote his own, sinful and selfish will upon others.

Most genuine, biblically based, Christian pastors, preachers, evangelists, and lay persons who speak, teach, pray, educate, inspire, and encourage others towards repentance for salvation in Jesus Christ do so because they want God to use them to spread the Gospel.

Genuine believers, pastors, preachers and evangelists are known for following Jesus Christ and His will...not their own wills.

They are not into antics like Wrights. Wright is, in fact, using God to promote and elevate "himself ." How sad it is that this fanatical lunatic is using God in such a public way that is downright shameful!!

Wright doesn't even preach the Gospel of Christ. He preaches another 'gospel.' - one that has so many negatives attached to it that it can only be labeled as a heresy du jour type of smorgasbord - filled with hate and ugly lies.

What do you think?

Jesus warned us that "by their fruits ye shall know them."

Mat 7:16
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Mat 7:20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

We know what Wright is all about....and he is definitely showing himself to be on the wrong side of the gospel message.

The man needs to repent!

HT: Michele Malkin

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Update 4/30/08 @ 10:18 a.m. PT

I thought that this Turning Point message reveals the contrast between what a Godly leader SHOULD (regarding giving all the glory to God and not to self) verses, what "Rev." Wright does (purposely giving glory to himself rather than God.)

Don't Be a Thief

Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck [Herod], because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.
Acts 12:23


Recommended Reading
Acts 14:8-18


In 1997, basketball superstar Michael Jordan had been on four championship teams. But the Chicago Bull's new assistant coach, Frank Hamblen, after twenty-five years in the league, did not have a championship ring. Jordan dedicated himself that year to winning a championship for coach Hamblen. The Bulls won their fifth NBA championship in 1997, and Frank Hamblen got his championship ring.

Michael Jordan chose to deflect glory away from himself, as the NBA's greatest player, toward another person. That's an example of what all human beings are called to do in their relationship with God: Be humble and recognize that God deserves all the glory. Humility is not a matter of self-abasement. Rather, it is a matter of recognizing our place in the grand scheme of things, meaning that God is God and we are not. When we take glory that God is due, we are stealing from Him. And thievery from God is not an enviable place in which to find oneself.

First Corinthians 10:31 says, "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." Be humble. Let God be God. Deflect the glory away from self toward Him.


In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
C. S. Lewis

Read-Thru-the-Bible
1 Chronicles 23:1 - 25:31

HT: Turning Point Ministries

More Hate Mail!

How ironic is it that people (who, most likely consider themselves 'tolerant') come over to a Christian blog and decide to spew their hatred at me via "signing" my guestbook?

Here are three disparaging entries:

"David" from Canada
Saturday March 8, 2008 8:25:27 AM

Mesg:
The problem is not with God or his son. It falls with Gods followers. You preach love but your message is nothing but hate and intolerance. Your hateful words hurt many families and mostly the children of these families. Because of intolerance Children of Gay families are more likely to commit suicide. You go on about protecting children but at the same time you and your right wing followers hurt more children than another group of people. I thank God that not all Christians are nuts like you and your followers and that they follow God true words...love your neighbor. protect all of Gods children. You will lose your unfounded fight and the true children of God will triumph.I hope you can sleep at night knowing the harm you have caused gay families and single parent families. You and your followers have made Religion a dirty word.You just prove how crazy all of you really are...Keep up the good work!

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"Meg" from Europe:

Time:
Saturday April 19, 2008 5:16:24 PM

Mesg:
The only good christian is a dead one, because where christians lives, death follow.

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"Kris" from Washington:


Time:
Wednesday April 23, 2008 1:18:00 PM

Mesg:
How people as ignorant and ungrateful as you can survive without someone spoon feeding you is beyond me. The article by the wacky, bible thumping woman about the "Expelled" movie is nothing more than deluded, radical rightwing, typical bile from someone who lives in a fantasy world and doesn't have a clue about reality. You thumpers are the biggest problem on this planet. You are the most limited thinkers possible and are dangerous to the future on mankind. You are enormously hypocritical. You use, and benefit from science, but deny it's wisdom and facts. since you don't believe science or trust it, why don't you get rid of all the conveniences and benefits that science has provided for you?? Go live in a cave and don't partake of any modern conveniences, like computers, TVs, medicine, vehicles, houses, clothing, store bought food, toiletries, phones, electricity, health care, and all the other things science has made possible and available for you and all the other people on t...

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Nice...huh?

Obama's Preacher's Hate Speech

The following two links each contain actual recordings of Obama's "preacher" spewing some awful, anti-American hate speech. He certainly doesn't sound like any genuine Christian pastor that I have ever known or heard!

Jeremiah Wright's Hate Speech (part 1)

Those audio clips are bad enough, but the next four are far worse! In fact, he takes the name of God in vain in one clip!!!

Jeremiah Wright's Hate Speech (part 2)

That place is no true Christian church. It's an ugly, demonic, hateful, anti-American political forum for a ranting maniac who tries to pass himself off as a "pastor."

Awful!!!

HT: Michael Savage.com

What others have written (including a video at Hot Air!):

1. Michele Malkin - Now we know where Michelle Obamas' resentment of America comes from.

2. Hot Air - Video: Obama's pastor takes highly nuanced approach to racial divisiveness.

Christian News

Question: Has the Apostle Paul's Caesarean prison cell been discovered?

Excerpts from article:

The actual site of Paul’s Caesarean incarceration has remained a mystery for almost two thousand years. Whether or not the mystery has been solved depends on the degree of credence one is prepared to accord speculation over the results of some recent diggings in the city King Herod built.

Recent archeological excavations have brought Caesarea back almost full circle to its Hasmonean-Roman roots. What the archeologists appear to have unearthed is a portion of Herod’s government headquarters building containing within it a cell that from all appearances was used as a prisoner holding pen. They found its walls scrawled with two millennia-old graffiti invoking the name of Paul and clearly indicating that its author/authors regarded the cell as the place in which the Apostle spent all or part of his prison sentence.

What can be conjectured from this evidence – if evidence it is – remains uncertain. As one observer noted, “we can be confident that Paul was imprisoned somewhere in this vicinity. It’s even possible that the memory of the cell in which he was confined might be preserved among the people of Caesarea.” To declare the cell the actual venue of the Apostle’s confinement, however, was something he was not prepared to do without further intensive investigation..

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By now, most people have probably heard about Joy Behar's hopelessly ignorant rant regarding her view about Catholic saints. If not, go over to Hot Air and see for yourself!

Although the Catholic definition of saints is different from the biblical, Christian view, the fact that a gossiping ignoramous like Behar says such things and, what's worse - gets away with it unchallenged, is reason enough for people to check their brains at the door for even watching it!

Behar's ignorance is astounding!!

When women like Rosie O'Donnell (whose utterings take the Oscar for ignorance) and Joy Behar (who may, in fact, be the one who really needs psychotic evaluation and medication) are placed on a nationwide morning T.V. show, viewers must constantly be utilizing their own, sensible idiot monitors while viewing such a show that has a high level of stupid utterances, extreme folly and profound level of idiocy that The Spew continually vomits out!

One commenter at Hot Air wrote:

The reason that I can’t stand The View isn’t the terrible opinions being expressed, but the inability of those who know better to suppress them.

Of course, the one Christian woman (Elizabeth Hasselbeck who happens to have blonde hair) on the show doesn't get the chance to counter the others stupid comments.

Another commenter at Hot Air wrote:

It’s more like Goldilocks and the three bores.

Ha!! Good one!

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There's more to share about the "moral values" that self-proclaimed "Christian" - Barack Obama - apparently doesn't have.

Black pro-life leader rips Obama
'He doesn't care that abortion is the No. 1 killer of African-Americans'

Excerpts:

"Senator Obama doesn't care that abortion has obliterated the rights of more than 15 million black children since 1973," Gardner said in a statement. "He doesn't care that abortion is the No. 1 killer of African-Americans surpassing deaths caused by accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths – combined!

"He won't make one of his powerful speeches decrying the injustice of abortion providers as they plant killing centers firmly in black communities – making it easier to kill black children. Instead, he actually applauds their efforts! These children are denied their most basic human right, which is the right to life, a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for."

Obama's record of supporting abortion in both the Illinois state Senate and the U.S. Senate is undisputed.

Obama is so extreme on the issue of abortion, he could not even support the Born Alive legislation that would allow that if an infant was born alive due to a botched abortion attempt, the doctors and nurses would have the right to keep the baby alive instead of letting it die in the surgery room!!

This worldview of Obama represents the mind and morals of a Christian man? NO WAY!!!

Wrote Stanek: "In 2001 and 2002, Obama was the lone senator speaking against Born Alive on the Senate floor. In 2003, Obama killed the bill altogether by burying it alive in a committee he chaired. …

Concluded Gardner: "Unfortunately, Barack Obama supports the ruthless culture of death – one that includes killing the smallest Americans – too small to flee or fight back."

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Woman loses right to wear cross

Woman loses right to wear cross
Court decides in favor of British Airways in discrimination suit

A Christian British Airways employee who sued the company after it required her to cover up a cross necklace while on the job has lost her discrimination suit, but she vows to return to work tomorrow wearing the cross.

The 56-year-old Eweida is quoted by BBC as saying: "I'm very disappointed. I'm speechless really because I went to the tribunal to seek justice. But the judge has given way for BA to have a victory on imposing their will on all their staff."

Eweida lost her initial suit against the company but won an injunction on appeal in the Reading Employment Tribunal. However, in yesterday's ruling in the case, Eweida v. British Airways, the court ruled the airline can continue to prohibit Eweida from visibly wearing her cross. The court concluded that other types of religious symbols, such as turbans, bangles and other religious markings, are unable to be concealed and are therefore acceptable.

"No Christian should be forced to hide her faith in the workplace, particularly when a double-standard exists targeting only Christians for discriminatory treatment," said Bull. "This case should be of particular interest to the American customers of British Airways who understand and value religious liberty."

Hat Tips:

WorldNetDaily

ZionNet

Hot Air

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Update at 9:26 a.m. PT

I have Fox News on in the other room. Just heard a familiar, yet very annoying voice giving a speech. Ugh...it's John Kerry endorsing Barack Obama!

Yech!

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Second Update:

Great post and conversation going on over at Neil's blog. His post What is Truth? has brought about some thoughts regarding meaning in life and, as commenter Bubba puts it, "rational contemplation requires indepedence from the material world."

I recommend going over there and reading the entire post and comments. However, I was intrigued by Bubba's additional points:

If human rationality is real — and I believe it is, and you cannot rationally argue that it isn’t — then complexity cannot account for it: only independence from the material world can.

It’s not that I deny complexity in the physical universe: it’s that I deny complexity is a magical wand that can somehow make wholly physical processes somehow rational or truly free.

Likewise, rational contemplation requires indepedence from the material world: otherwise, the thoughts emanating from our brains may be more complex than the bile from our livers, but they remain no more meaningful.

I’m glad to see that atheists can find meaning in love and reason, but they do so despite the logical consequences of their atheism and their materialistic naturalism.