Quote Originally Posted by Orzy
Isn't Obama's mother white? Do you really think he has these black supremacist ideas when a white woman raised him? When Obama starts saying stuff like that then you can criticize his radical ideas, but until then I'm honestly pretty happy with a candidate whose big bad secret is that his preacher says some crazy shit.
From what I've heard, being white doesn't preclude one from being muslim.
Isn't just his preacher making foolish comments. What about his wife, and her statement a couple of weeks ago stating how she is for the first time, proud to be an american. It falls into the same category of (parroted) rhetoric. I wonder where she has heard those views before...?

Quote Originally Posted by Orzy
I've talked to some far right Christians who will align a preachers thoughts with the people that sit under him, but not being even slightly religious myself that doesn't make any sense to me. Or most other people, religious or not, that I've talked to. And really those far right Christians wouldn't vote for a dem anyway, so I don't really see this story hurting Obama's votes.
The examples you draw on to form your socio-political, socio-ethnic, and socio-theological views, says a bunch about ones character. If he had for many years developed his charachter and viewpoints from Hitler, Idi Amin Dada or Saddam Hussein, (no relation) would you not find it an untennable assosciation, given Obama is running for office of president of the USA?

Were I new to a city, and I go to a local church to hear about the word of god, to hear about my role in christianity and to have my morals and values re-affirmed and grown along christian lines, and a skinhead got up to chant nazi propoganda, bashing my community, my relatives, my friends, and my country, it wouldn't take but a few minutes for me to leave. And weather you like it or not, all the people sitting there in the pews for years, singing the nazi songs and praising the hatred, are either in agreement with the message or don't sprechen ze english.
I would leave because, altho learning about other cultures and belief systems is a great way to understand more of oneself, bullshit is bullshit. That skinhead preacher has nothing to offer me except hatred for others, and ways to interprete the bible in ways that circumvent conventional wisdom, and christian principles.

Just like Rev. Wright and his protoge.
(Mentorship refers to a developmental relationship between a more experienced mentor and a less experienced partner referred to as a protégéâ??a person guided and protected by a more prominent person.)
Rusty Trichome Reviewed by Rusty Trichome on . Obamas Rev. Wright We have all heard a lot about Barack Obamaâ??s spiritual guide and mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright has a whole lot of respect for Black supremacist Louis Farrakhan and, as if thatâ??s not enough, he also has a past of anti-white rhetoric himself. In his preaches he regularly attacks white people, arguing that they continue to oppress African-Americans, and so on. Now a new, and damning, video has appeared of Wrightâ??s last sermon (before he retired), in which he, once again, talked Rating: 5