I am not, by and large, a political person in the way of trying to convert anyone to my way of thinking when it comes to voting; that is not my intention here. In fact…i have not made up my mind about who I am voting for, in the coming presidential election. But, I am somewhat disturbed by the goings on with the media’s illumiation of the whole inflamatory words of Sen. Barack Obama’s recently retired pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Reverend Wright has been preaching sermons, until his recent retirement, that have allegedly been making statements that have an accusatory tone about AIDS being a racist plot, about concerns about his sermons and statements…calling those concerns an attack on the black church amongst other highly provacative statments. This, as you can imagine, has caused multiple problems for Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign.
Rev. Wright was Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor for almost 20 years..and he married Obama and his wife. They have had a spirtual relationship for quite some time.
I don’t know about you…but…I have been in a church situation where i was in a spiritual disagreement with someone who was head of the church; and, was preaching what i thought was violent, ill informed, and inflammatory comments from the pulpit. My husband and I made the painful decision to leave that church because of the influence it was having on our spiritual well being.
I think that was the proper thing to do. We still cared deeply for the person making the statements…but…in all honesty, that person was wrong to be saying the things they said from a pulpit. It is a sacred, powerful place to guide and direct people in their daily living. It is no less so, for Barack Obama and his family…or, anyone else finding themselves in such a position. This requires discernment about who you let influence your thoughts and decisions.
I do have some questions personally…but, because I was not in that church to hear such things being said…i have to give Mr. Obama credit and say…i would hope that he would have better judgement than to sit under that sort of spiritual leadership if it was ongoing situation with Rev. Wright.
On the other hand, who is betraying who in this ongoing debate about what has been being preached in that church. If Rev Wright was saying such explosive and devisive things from the pulpit and Mr. Obama continued under that tuteledge…then, maybe his judgement has been impaired.
It has been alleged by a politician recently, that perhaps, Rev. Wright was deliberately sabotaging Mr. Obama’s bid for delegates. If so, why would he be acting as a political Judas?
Now that Barack Obama has distanced himself further from Rev. Wright on Monday evening by saying…that the person who made such a “spectacle” at the National Press Club “is not the person I met 20 years ago”; are there persons out there who will think that he is the political Judas for distancing himself from Rev. Wright, at this point in time?
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