MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

I’ve found a church!

• Posted by Beth on March 13th, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Candidates, General, John McCain, Moonbats, Politics, Stupid, Video   Jeremiah Wright · religion    

I’ve decided to start attending church. Where I live, most people go to church of some kind, and I want to be more involved in the community. Yeah, it’s a really liberal church that’s locally well-known for activism in liberal causes, but I’m still calling it mine because hey, I’m not responsible for what they say or believe. It really bothers me that they support abortion “rights,” divestment of Israel, say America is a thuggish imperialist nation of ugly “middle-class” values, and yeah, they even honored David Duke for his opposition to Zionism and the war on Islamic fascism, but *I* don’t believe that at all, so it’s okay. They talk about all this stuff from the pulpit and are activists in the community, but as long as they mention Jesus Christ and talk about getting a good education, it’s all good. Right? I go to church now!

Wrong.

Will someone please explain to me why Barack Obama gets a pass for belonging to an activist church that espouses beliefs that he claims he doesn’t share?

MADNESS. This ridiculous assertion that it’s the same as Rev. John Hagee endorsing John McCain is just mind-boggling, especially considering the fact that he simply endorsed the eventual Republican nominee. I’m sure John Hagee would have endorsed Mitt Romney if he had been the eventual nominee, as well. How stupid and/or dishonest do you have to be to equate the two? Barack Obama has gone to Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years and calls Jeremiah Wright his “spiritual mentor.” If he doesn’t believe in the things for which Jeremiah White and the TUCC stand, why is that his church? It’s not like there aren’t others in the neighborhood.

Needless to say, there are “other churches” in my neighborhood, and I wouldn’t choose to attend a church that espoused views I find objectionable, as in the hypothetical one I described. Would you? I feel safe in assuming that no honest person would. Only if one were just picking a random church to say “I go to church” would he or she do so, and even then, that random church would surely be abandoned in favor of a less objectionable one some time in twenty years of attendance. If not, the only logical conclusion is that the person–namely, Barack Obama–follows the teachings of the church. Sure, cultural education, biblical education, and self-reliance are all good things, but they aren’t the only values of the TUCC. I have no problem with their emphasis on black culture, but the virulent hatred for all others, including American culture in the aggregate, is simply revolting.

It’s no wonder we hear Michelle Obama expressing disdain for the American experience. Isn’t it fair to question whether Barack Obama feels the same way, when his spiritual mentor, congregation, friends, wife, and late mother, are (or were, in his mother’s case) to varying degrees full of fear and loathing for America? And if he does share those beliefs, why would we want such a man to be President of the United States? Reverend Jeremiah Wright will tell you why, but I sure don’t see any reason to support Barack Obama for President of my beloved country any more than I would belong to a church that shared his political beliefs.