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400-408 – Gary McCaleb, Senior Attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund (adf.org), on the homeschooling case.
413-423 – Sandy Froman is the immediate past president of the National Rifle Association (nra.org) and attorney in Tucson, on the case before the Supreme Court that could redefine the Second Amendment.
• Ken Blackwell and Sandy Froman (3/6), Judging Gun Rights: Are they Inalienable?
• Ken Blackwell and Sandy Froman (3/13), The Roe v. Wade of Gun Rights.
• ABC News, Okla. House Passes Campus Gun Bill.
428-437 – Jack O'Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction (cde.ca.gov/eo/), on homeschooling.
• SF Gate (3/11) Calif. School Chief Back Parents Right to Homeschool.
• Walter P. Coombs and Ralph E. Shaffer (3/13/08, LAT), Regulating home schoolers: A court ruling is right to examine the seemingly elitist and illiberal practice.
443-452 – Hey! Don't forget, next Thursday we've got a free event for those of you in church leadership looking to expand your church! It starts at 9:30am, and includes a free lunch! It's at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Anaheim, and we're calling it the "Kingdom Builder's Seminar." Seating is limited, so call to make your reservation! And, get this, some ministry is going to come away with $5,000 in free advertising on KKLA! Call now (888) 321-2469!
Sean McDowell (seanmcdowell.org) is head of the Bible department at Capistrano Valley Christian Schools, and tells about bringing 20 of his seniors to Berkeley to engage atheists, critics and skeptics. His latest is Being Bold in a Whatever World.
458-508 – (KKLA has immediate part-time openings for the KKLA Street Team. Go to kkla.com for details.)
My questions: Would there be a need for black theology if there were no white oppressors, e.g. pre colonial Africa? Will Black Theology always need white oppressors to exist? Can oppressors be other than white, perhaps Iranian, Russian, Chinese, Venezuelan, or Cuban? Who needs to be saved? Is there salvation for non-blacks? Why is Jesus necessary in Black Theology? Are "captives set free" physically or spiritually? Jesus failed if His task was to end "black oppression" in this world rather than salvation and eternal life for all who trust in Him.
• H. Wayne House (1982) An Investigation of Black Liberation Theology [Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. 139, No. 554 (April 82): 159]. The founder of the Black Liberation Theology movement is James H. Cone, a distinguished professor at Union Theological Seminary, and the quintessential book is his A Black Theology of Liberation (Orbis Books, 1990).
From House's Charts of Christian Theology and Doctrine (1992), "Salvation: Salvation is freedom from oppression and pertains to blacks in this life. Proponents of black theology are concerned specifically with the political and theological aspects of salvation more than the spiritual. In other words, salvation is physical liberation from white oppression rather than freedom from the sinful nature and acts of each individual person. Presenting heaven as a reward for following Christ is seen as an attempt to dissuade blacks from the goal of real liberation of their whole persons."
(p. 4) The message of Christ, it is said, is black power.26 Cone elucidates this theme, "It is my thesis...that Black Power, even in its most radical expression, is not the antithesis of Christianity, nor is it a heretical idea to be tolerated with painful forbearance. It is, rather, Christ's central message to twentieth-century America."27 Similarly and more forcefully, Henry says, "Black Power is not the antithesis of Christianity. It IS Christianity."28
(p. 4) [Jesus] was not the traditional "lamb of God" taking away the sins of the world and promising Eternal Life to those following in His footsteps. Instead, He was a "revolutionary black leader," a member of the Zealots...[who] sought to free Israel's black Jews from oppression and bondage, dying, not for the eternal salvation of the individual, but for the rebirth of the lost Black Nation.30 (Clarence Hillard)
(p. 4) Of what people is the kingdom of God composed? For God to be true to His nature, black theologian Cone says that His righteousness must be directed to the helpless and the poor. The rich, the secure, and the suburbanite cannot share in God's righteousness because they trust in things of this world.32 Only the one who becomes black can have this righteousness, for reconciliation makes one black. "To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!"33 (Cone)
(p. 8) A logical error of this assumption of black theology is that rich and poor are seen as opposites, as if every person in the world is one or the other. First, if wealth were distributed among all, invariably some would have a degree of wealth over others. Would they then be the new rich? Also, even if it were not so distributed, even today there are gradations of richness and poorness. Where does one draw a distinct line of demarcation? Also, the New Testament condemns not the possession of wealth but the wrong attitude toward it. Poor persons may often have greed whereas some rich persons may not.
• Ronald Kessler, Obama and the Minister. The award to Farrakhan was not for his work with "ex-offenders" as Barack had claimed, since neither the award nor the Trumpet article mentions the word.
• Kathryn Jean Lopez, Wright and Wrong: Obama's angry pastor.
• Charles Krauthammer, An Election About Identity, Not Policy.
• Kathleen Parker, Monsters and Racists and Sexists, Oh My!
• New York Post Editorial, Obama's Minister Of Hate.
911's Our Fault: () Jeremiah Wright, 9/16/2001, the first Sunday after 9/11 – "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. 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."
God Damn America: (:22) Jeremiah Wright, 2003 – "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
Dictators & AIDS: () Jeremiah Wright, 1/15/06 @ Howard University – "We've got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body. America is still the No. 1 killer in the world…We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers…We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi…We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic…We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means…We started the AIDS virus…We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty…" [Wright visited Ghadhafi in 1984 with Farrakhan.]
Farrakhan: () Jeremiah Wright, 12/07 – In Trumpet, the church magazine, Wright gave a lifetime achievement award to the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan and said of him, "His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye-opening…He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest."
Black Jesus: (2:57) Jeremiah Wright, 12/25?/07 – "Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people.
The Romans were rich, the Romans were Italian — which means they were European, which means they were white — and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. It just came to me, within the past few weeks y'all, why so many folk are hatin' on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model. He ain't white. He ain't rich. And he ain't privileged. Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold. Giuliani fits the mold. Rich, white men fit the mold. Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin was the wrong color. Hilary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong neigh… I am sick of negroes who just do not get it! Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home. Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man livin' in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich, white people. Hillary would never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as non-person. Hillary ain't had to work twice as hard just to get accepted by the rich white folk who run everything, or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than that "C" student sittin' in the White House! Oh! I am so glad that I got a God that knows what it is to be a poor black man in a country and a culture that is controlled by, and run by, rich white people. He taught me, Jesus did, how to love my enemies. Jesus taught me how to love the hell out of my enemies. And not be reduced to their level of hatred, bigotry, and small mindedness. Hillary ain't never had her own people say, she wasn't white enough. Jesus had his own people sidin' with the enemy. That's why I love Jesus, y'all. He never let their hatred dampen his hope. There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing His words, it sounds like music in my ears, the sweetest name on Earth, I'm wonderin' can you throw your head back and say "Jesus?"
Condamnesia – (:07) – "They live below the sea level. They live below the level of Clarence Colon and Condamnesia."
Lewinsky – (:11) Jeremiah Wright, 1/13/08 – "Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain't! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."
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• Daily Camera, 'Fight club' busted at Fairview High School: Officers: As many as 60 students gathered to watch street brawls.• Fox News, Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for Fraud. John Coleman says global warming is a hoax.
• AP, Senate Approves Federal Budget That Would End Bush Tax Cut. McCain's pet project to put a one year moratorium on earmarks was voted down last night 71-29, with five Democrats that included Barack and Hillary voting in the minority.
• Peggy Noonan, House Party.
• Fox News (3/13), Man Accused of Forcing Daughter, 7 to Kill Pet Cat.
