Many of you have probably seen or heard Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s ‘controversial’ sermons, which have been airing non-stop on television networks and youtube. Reverend Wright has been called an anti-American for saying “God damn America” and condemning U.S. terrorism. Wright stated in one of his sermons, quoting Ambassador Ed Peck, “America’s chickens had come home to roost.” First of all, I have to say that I agree with most of what the Reverend said in his sermons. “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and we never batted an eye.” This is true we did all of this and when 9/11 happened we became indignant. We wondered how anyone can ever do this to us. What have we done? The Reverend pointed out quite clearly what we have done. This is what he’s talking about when he said that “America’s chickens had come home to roost.”
Although I agree with most of the statements that Wright has said I still think that he was wrong for saying them. The church is no place to state such things. He was talking about his political views from the pulpit. If I had been someone who had never known much about God and what it was to have a relationship with him and came into that church when Wright was preaching those sermons I would have been very confuse. Church is a place where you go to learn more about God and His Word, not about the bad things that America has done. If Reverend Wright really wanted to share what he thought he should have done it out of the church. Because of his sermons he has now threaten Democratic front-runner Barack Obama, who he was like and uncle to, hopes in the presidential race. According to a national Democratic poll that was conducted between March 14 and 18, Hillary Clinton overtook Obama by 7%. A few days earlier, Obama had been ahead.
The fact that Reverend Wright’s sermons affected the way that voters see Mr. Obama is ridiculous to me. Mr. Obama isn’t Reverend Wright and does not think the same way that the Reverend does. He said it himself, “Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely—just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from you pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed,” he said. I just don’t see how Obama’s former pastor’s sermons, many of which were preached before the presidential elections even began, could actually change people’s minds on Obama. If Reverend Wright had made his political comments elsewhere, this all could have been avoided.
By: Gabriela Guzman
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14989.html http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=334988&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/26/man-who-inspired-wright-s_n_93575.html http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2/1043041479?page=NewsArticle&id=8773&news_iv_ctrl=1261 http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/DavidRStokes/2008/03/23/jeremiah%E2%80%99s_jeremiads_%E2%80%93_pulpit_demagoguery?page=full&comments=true http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ38N8OUg3Q&feature=related
p.s. I would strongly encourage you to check the first website on the list out. It has a very interesting video that I didn’t get to talk much about in my blog post.
Reggie Said:
on April 16, 2008 at 4:57 am
I think it was fine for him to say those things in his church, since from what I can tell, that kind of thing is considered normal in his particular church. What’s acceptable varies from church to church. Also, it’s near impossible to separate religion and politics, because one’s religion does affect their political view’s so much.
And I have to say that, as you did, I agreed with a lot of what he was saying. Especially the part about how we sponsored the very terrorists that attacked us.
Obama’s pretty much come back from the attack though, which is good. And it was an attack. The sermons were cut in very specific ways for maximum damage. Once the whole thing came out people calmed down a lot, I think.
aquee12 Said:
on April 18, 2008 at 4:55 am
I agree with you that, the comments made by the Rev. are very irrelevant to Barack Obama’s views on America. I think that the media really played a big role in blowing the whole situation out of proportion, without the media coverage, there wouldn’t have been so much hoopla over nothing. I also think that this was a tactic used by the Clinton camp, to try to sabotage Obama’s campaign.