Posted by: riggword | May 5, 2008

Wright, Wrong; Mostly:

Yesterday, I gave one example of the Reverend Wright being right,

Today, let’s look at a couple of his statements that are just wrong:

His thought on who chooses our President was right. God Chooses our president. But, if he thinks he can know what God is doing in the world, then he is a false prophet. It is no small task and no small ounce of pride that causes a man to predict what God is up to in the world on a large scale. Occasionally we may understand a sliver of God’s plan in our own lives, but It is not for us to understand or Prophesy of God’s intent for major catastrophes. We are mortal humans who can only live out our lives in a Godly way, we cannot pretend to understand God’s plan completely.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing,

but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

(Matthew 7: 15, NJV)

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright Pretends to Know God’s Will With This Statement:

From ABC News Online:

In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda’s attacks because of its own terrorism.

“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,” Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.

“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,”

But there were False prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you., who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (II Peter 2: 1, NKJ).

Reverend Wright must be careful when prophesying about what he thinks the Lord is doing. If we are to assume that God allowed the Twin Towers to be destroyed and over 3,000 people murdered because of the sins of America then must we assume that the Jews deserved the Holocaust, or the Japanese Hiroshima, or the Rwandans their plight, or floods, or hurricanes. We are just mortal men not God. It is a mistake for Reverend Wright to put himself into the position of “All Knowing”.

As Christians we must be aware of false prophets:

As Americans we must watch for false leaders and people full of pride. We must be diligent to uncover truth and test all things by Scripture.

Beloved, Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:

because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

(I John 4:1 KJV)

The following are more examples of Rev. Wright false statements and and Obama’s false leadership.

From the New Nixon Blog we can read:

Wright Wrong

May 4, 2008 by Frank Gannon | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Jonah Goldberg’s latest column corrects an egregious historical inaccuracy Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been peddling in his pulpit and on his recent cross country Sink Obama tour — his gross misrepresentation of the case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

What happened was bad enough. Rev. Wright piles on insult to injury.

The study began in 1932. It came to light in an AP story in July 1972 and was officially terminated by HEW four months later.

Mr. Goldberg writes:

Wright says the US government “purposely infected African-American men with syphilis.” This is a lie, and no historian says otherwise. Yet, this untruth pops up routinely.

What the US did at Tuskegee was indeed bad, very bad. But it didn’t do what these people say it did.

So what did happen? In 1932, public-health researchers set out to study syphilis, particularly among African-Americans, who had higher infection rates than whites. They recruited 399 black men who already had syphilis. The doctors infected no one. The patients were selected because they were tertiary-stage syphilitics who were no longer contagious.

The researchers studied the progress of the disease, without treating it, for 40 years.

Prior to the availability of penicillin in the ’40s and ’50s, the researchers couldn’t have treated the men. Even after standardized penicillin treatments were available, it wasn’t clear that the patients could have been helped.

Among scholars who’ve studied Tuskegee, there’s a lot of debate about how much – if any – racism was involved. But no one disputes that Tuskegee had nothing to do with genocide or even a desire to spread the disease among the black population.

In 1973 the NAACP filed a class action law-suit which resulted the next year in a $10 million settlement. In 1997 President Clinton formally apologized. (New Nixon Blog)

Michelle Malkin Still Has A Lot To Say About Wright:

Look who’s “counseling” Obama and Wright

By Michelle Malkin • April 30, 2008 11:43 AM

You’ll recall the name Michael Pfleger. He’s, you know, the white Jeremiah Wright.

Now, it appears the radical, hate-preaching Pfleger is playing therapist and go-between for newly-divorced couple Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright.

Seriously.

You almost can’t parody this mess.

But Iowahawk can and does so again brilliantly with “Advice for the Lovelorn.”

Can this campaign be saved? (Michelle Malkin)

Just for fun here’s a little snippit from Savage Politics About Obama:

CHARGE 21 – “I barely know William Ayers” – A.K.A. – Abu Zayd

EVIDENCE – Senator Obama announced the start of his Senate campaign from the front steps of William Ayers’ home, in the neighborhood that they share. SOURCE 1, SOURCE 2, SOURCE 3

COUNTER CLAIM – Just because Senator Obama lives in the same neighborhood with Ayers doesn’t prove they knew each other well.

REBUTTAL – William Ayers (or Abu-Zayd), Louis Farrakhan, and Senator Obama all live in the same neighborhood. Ayers is the founder of the Woods Fund, of which Senator Obama was it’s director from 1999 to 2002. Perhaps one might ask oneself; who chooses the director of the Wood Fund? Perhaps its founder? Secondly, if Senator Obama announced his campaign run in Illinois from Ayers’s home, did he not ask Ayers’ permission first? If the Senator did not know Abu-Zayd Ayers well, then how did he come to choose Ayers’ front steps to announce his campaign? Random chance?

VERDICT – SENATOR OBAMA, YOU ARE A LIAR (Savage Politics)

Check out the rest of the post above.


Responses

  1. So the Rev believes God chose GWB–well, no, the US Supreme Court did–although I guess ultimately God may have been working through the court, which does explain that God was indeed damning America, because a worse 7 years is tough to imagine except for the Great Depression. I am so confused.

    Please, God, let Hillary win IN and NC and the nomination and make this a fair fight in the General Election between sane but different candidates.

  2. Thanks for your comment,

    It is easy to be confused with all of
    the characters involved in this election.

    God Help Us!

  3. A wrong? The New York Post is reporting that Rev. Jeremiah Wright took another man’s wife. Don’t sound like a man of God to this American!
    http://goodtimepolitics.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-racial-issue-has-toppled-other-black-hopefuls-obama-may-not-be-immune/

  4. “The New York Post is reporting that Rev. Jeremiah Wright took another man’s wife.”

    I guess HIS chickens are coming home to roost, too!

  5. Thanks for your comments,

    This stuff is all getting curiouser and curiouser,

    Wright might have to take
    a few words from Elmer Fudd,

    “What a Tangled Web we Weeb!”

    God Bless

  6. There was pastor in North Texas a few years back who was convicted of raping several of his parishioners after drugging them. This was an African-American church. Do not underestimate the power men of the pulpit have. Some take advantage of it. I read the New York Post article, but we will have to see where it goes.

  7. Thanks Tim for the heads up on Wright.

  8. As usual thank you for your comments peak,

    This will all make for an interesting fall campaign.

    Wright may fall,
    But, I am afraid that Obama will skate on all issues.

    He will be hailed as the current Teflon Candidate.

    Smiles, Charisma and “Hope” go a long way with many of our American Voters.

    God Bless

  9. I was listening to NPR today (and before you think this makes me gay, just let remind you I am gay), and I heard this guy ask Harry Reid a great question. He put it beautifully: Has the United States become a country of great consumers and bad citizens?

    I think that hits the nail on the head and it explains Obama’s popularity. Citizenship means nothing to people since globalization. With imperialism you had to love your country at least.

  10. Thank you for your, as usual, well expressed comments huntingdon,

    I think there is a point to the idea that many Americans have a short term What’s-in-it-for-me attitude. But, that attitude has been here since God created humans. Many of us still vote out of a what’s-best-for-America attitude.

    The real question is who people put there faith in God or man and which candidate comes closest to our beliefs. Obama is a put-faith-in-man candidate. Liberals are all about making the world a utopia by controlling human behavior. They say, as Ms. Obama and Ms Clinton keep reminding us, if we take over we will do it better. We have the liberal socialist plan that will finally work.

    Conservatives although not necessarily believers in God at least want to allow us to have the freedom to allow for God to do his work and for people to live their lives with less government intervention. Taxes are a government intrusion. Keeping Taxes under control and the Government out of my thoughts, wallet, and Religion is more of a conservative approach than a liberal one.

    Therefore Obama is not my man.

    By the way back in my foggy thinking days I use to listen to NPR exclusively. I got tired of hearing distorted “news” if you can call what they do “news”. And why do I have to pay for something I don’t use? Just a thought!

    Thank you for your comments,
    God Bless

  11. I’ll spar with you a little about liberals. I am a pretty left liberal. I believe that in building a human society we should have a bottom below which no person should be allowed to fall. I think this is civilization in its best sense. So I do advocate things I am sure you object to, but reasonable people can disagree. Liberals aren’t godless necessarily, but we tend towards humanism.

    There is one aspect of some people’s idea of liberalism that I reject, and which I think Senator Clinton would also reject, but which Obama does not: moral and cultural relativism. (I get accused of being a moral relativist all the time b/c I am a gay Catholic, but this is by folks who don’t understand theology). Obama and his followers are not big believers in universal human rights. I cannot think of a greater principle than the recognition that all human beings have rights that cannot be denied to them for any reason. I suspect you believe something like that, though we may disagree on what the list of rights is.

    Would you say that’s true?

  12. huntingdon,
    You’ll just have to believe me when I tell
    you that I am a recovering liberal.

    I was kicked out of my high school social studies
    class for ranting something about resisting the powers in charge of everything.
    I was feeling a bout of Jerry Rubin through my adolescent years. I was an donor to NPR in its infant years. I have volunteered at Head Start, and the local food co-op. I spent twenty years as a radical feminist and ecologist. I became a vegetarian before any body heard of the word vegan. I could go on with my credentials of knowing of which I speak.

    My credentials in tact, I can truly say that Liberalism is not good for
    “Humans and Other living Things”.

    We all want to help people. Most of us want to help those people learn how to fish. Many of us believe that the Government is not the place to do God’s ministerial work. Many of us dedicate our lives to helping others through our Churches and private organizations.

    A flourishing American economy is one of the most humanitarian phenomenons that can happen. The American economy flourishes when taxes are low for businesses and individual entrepreneurs. Keeping taxes low keeps everyday people like me employed. Employment feeds people. Government intrusiveness slows the economy which slows individuals ability to feed their children. A flourishing American economy feeds the rest of the world.

    Check out all of the good Christians have done for the world in spite of collectivist and other liberal governments when you have the time. The list is long and quite impressive.

    Keep reading my blog for more insight into the conservative mind and keep adding your comments.

    God Bless

  13. I love your blog. I also can well believe you were a liberal (do you eat meat now?). I have a very good friend who is the classic neo-con: Trotskyite turned way to the right. He is very principled and a great human being, even though his politics are all messed up (ha!) Not saying you were an ex-commie either…

    I spent too much time living in New Zealand and loving it. I hardly paid any taxes, got way more services, and was as free as I have ever been. I would have become a dual citizen except for one little thing: I take republicanism small “r” very seriously and I could not swear allegiance to a monarch. This makes everyone thing I am daft.

  14. You guessed it.

    I am a bit of a dichotomy.

    Twenty-seven years ago I quit eating meat as
    a political/spiritual statement.

    Now I don’t eat meat because I have lost the taste for it. I just don’t like it…must be a use-dependent neurodevelopment thing.

    I never quit eating fish, thank God!

    I love my sushi!

    God Bless.


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