[ExI] Rhetoric is Prozelityzing

[citta437 at aol.com]

Olga: " 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!"
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Some rhetoric is a propaganda like prozelytizing by religious 
adherents. They don't scare me but made me angry.

Olga: "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."
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My anger turned into pity for those members of their congregation as 
well as to the ministers whose intent is obviously to influence the 
minds to believe what they believe that peace can be realized by 
singing and dancing in church.
Such loud rhetoric is a cry for attention or a need to be relieved of 
suffering. They cannot understand that their ignorance is the cause of 
their suffering.

Olga:."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 ..."
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The above sermon sound like a rhetoric to appeal to our emotions. If we 
use reason instead of emotion, we should be able to do critical 
analysis of the situation by paying attention to details.

Terry