[ExI] safer now;

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "Gary Miller" <aiguy at comcast.net>
To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:52 AM

...>  And I am extremely uncomfortable with a candidate whose church spews 
such vile Anti-American hatred as Obama's does and then he expects us to 
believe that he did not know such sermons were being given.  This man was 
his personal friend if these are the things he is telling his congregation 
in public what is he telling his friend, possibly the future president in 
private?  That's just scary as fuck, I'm sorry!

Vile anti-American hatred?  I take it you haven't been in a "black" 
inner-city church service lately or are not familiar with them in the least? 
Inflammatory thetoric in those kind of churches is prevalent, part of the 
show.  However, while they may exagerrate for effect sometimes, the rhetoric 
isn't always wrong.

Martin Luther King preached this in a sermon (about the Vietnam war) in 
1967" : "Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as His 
divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has 
a way of standing before the nations with judgment and it seems that I can 
hear God saying to America: 'You are too arrogant! If you don't change your 
ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power."

Cf. to what Jeremiah Wright said (2003 sermon):

"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."

Jeremiah Wright said (2001 sermon):

"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 ..."

Olga


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