Meet Rev. Michael Pfleger

2008-05-31 09:43:06

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ATG: Banned; +5,233|6953|Global Command

Close friend, mentor and personal friend of Barrack Obama. Here he is speaking at Barracks church.

If you just listen to the audio it sounds like a stand up comedy routine.
If you watch the video, it is disturbing. Barrack says he never heard Wright say anything racist in the twenty years he attended the church. But it appears race baiting and politics are what this ( tax exempt ) church seems to be all about.

Strangely the speaker is a white catholic priest. I guess they brought him in to give legitimacy to the gutter politics and racist diatribes being spewed from the pulpit.

I mean holy crow, the members of this church absolutely hate America and have a vengance mentality.

Looks like McCain will be our next president after all.

Funny, the people Barrack has been associated with actually make me wish Hillary wasn't geting steam-rolled out of the race. He may be a good speaker and all, but the views espoused in the church he has spent the majority of his life listening to are terrifying. Almost as terrifying as the thought of a continuation of the status quo McCain offers.

God help us all.

2008-05-31 09:47:26

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Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6961|Long Island, New York

ATG wrote:
But it appears race baiting and politics are what this ( tax exempt ) church seems to be all about.

What church isn't?

Honestly, McCain's "endorsements" are much worse than anything Wright or this nutjob have said.

2008-05-31 09:53:29

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Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6829|North Carolina

...and people wonder why I think religion is a disease of the mind.

For what it's worth, Pfleger was pretty funny in a twisted sort of way.

I guess it would be too much to ask for an atheist president since people insist that the candidates must have some kind of religious connection.

Obama is a great speaker, and he does an excellent job of appearing to be moderate, but yes, I can definitely see why some people doubt his motivations. I'll be voting for Obama mostly because I hate the status quo so much that I'm willing to risk having someone in power with a questionable religious background.

Still, I do find myself disagreeing with Obama about half of the time. Of course, I only agree with McCain about a quarter of the time.

Where's Mike Gravel when you need him?

2008-05-31 09:56:06

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Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6961|Long Island, New York

Turquoise wrote:
Where's Mike Gravel when you need him?

Probably on his death bed.

2008-05-31 09:59:01

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Mystline: Banned; +38|6544|United States

Is this religion or politics?

2008-05-31 10:08:19

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SoC./Omega: Member; +122|6964|Omaha, Nebraska!

Poseidon wrote:
ATG wrote:
But it appears race baiting and politics are what this ( tax exempt ) church seems to be all about.
What church isn't?

Honestly, McCain's "endorsements" are much worse than anything Wright or this nutjob have said.

What the hell are you talking about?

Wright and Pfleger have said some dumbass things that only hurt Obama, and you refuse to acknowledge that he associates himself with these men? I doubt you know that Obama gave a 25K donation to this church, to pay these assholes salaries.

2008-05-31 10:12:49

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Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6829|North Carolina

SoC./Omega wrote:
Poseidon wrote:
ATG wrote:
But it appears race baiting and politics are what this ( tax exempt ) church seems to be all about.
What church isn't?

Honestly, McCain's "endorsements" are much worse than anything Wright or this nutjob have said.
What the hell are you talking about?

Wright and Pfleger have said some dumbass things that only hurt Obama, and you refuse to acknowledge that he associates himself with these men? I doubt you know that Obama gave a 25K donation to this church, to pay these assholes salaries.

I think Poseidon is implying that Rod Parsley and John Hagee are just as much assholes as Wright and Pfleger are. However, both McCain and Obama have denounced these people, so we're back to square one.

2008-05-31 10:37:11

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SEREMAKER: BABYMAKIN EXPERT √; +2,187|6992|Mountains of NC

oh lawd ................................................................... its a white guy

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2008-05-31 10:41:14

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Stingray24: Proud member of the vast right-wing conspiracy; +1,060|6869|The Land of Scott Walker

Turquoise wrote:
SoC./Omega wrote:
Poseidon wrote:

What church isn't?

Honestly, McCain's "endorsements" are much worse than anything Wright or this nutjob have said.
What the hell are you talking about?

Wright and Pfleger have said some dumbass things that only hurt Obama, and you refuse to acknowledge that he associates himself with these men? I doubt you know that Obama gave a 25K donation to this church, to pay these assholes salaries.
I think Poseidon is implying that Rod Parsley and John Hagee are just as much assholes as Wright and Pfleger are. However, both McCain and Obama have denounced these people, so we're back to square one.

The denunciations by McCain and Obama are for political expediency, nothing more. If he truly disagreed so vehemently with their teachings, Obama shouldn't have stuck around for 20 years.

2008-05-31 10:58:31

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san4: The Mas; +311|7112|NYC, a place to live

Where can I get one of those bluuuuuuue jackets?

2008-05-31 11:09:54

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Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6961|Long Island, New York

Stingray24 wrote:
Turquoise wrote:
SoC./Omega wrote:

What the hell are you talking about?

Wright and Pfleger have said some dumbass things that only hurt Obama, and you refuse to acknowledge that he associates himself with these men? I doubt you know that Obama gave a 25K donation to this church, to pay these assholes salaries.
I think Poseidon is implying that Rod Parsley and John Hagee are just as much assholes as Wright and Pfleger are. However, both McCain and Obama have denounced these people, so we're back to square one.
The denunciations by McCain and Obama are for political expediency, nothing more. If he truly disagreed so vehemently with their teachings, Obama shouldn't have stuck around for 20 years.

And McCain shouldn't have called Parsley his "moral compass".

2008-05-31 11:10:32

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OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|7073|Washington DC

Did he just say "damn" in church?

2008-05-31 11:12:04

#13

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|7073|Washington DC

Poseidon wrote:
ATG wrote:
But it appears race baiting and politics are what this ( tax exempt ) church seems to be all about.
What church isn't?

Actually, there are tons of churches that are not political ... many actually reject politics entirely.

2008-05-31 11:17:36

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Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6961|Long Island, New York

OrangeHound wrote:
Poseidon wrote:
ATG wrote:
But it appears race baiting and politics are what this ( tax exempt ) church seems to be all about.
What church isn't?
Actually, there are tons of churches that are not political ... many actually reject politics entirely.

Okay, what MAJOR church isn't? Some smaller church communities may, but the larger ones on the most part are all the same.

2008-05-31 11:47:42

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Home: Section.80; +447|7271|Seattle, Washington, USA

...I don't get what the big issue is with this video. I think the idea of "giving up your 401(k)" and that is unreasonable, but other than that, what's the big deal? How is it in any way "terrifying?" Do you think that there aren't plenty of white people who are pissed about a (half) black man running for president, and with a large degree of success so far?

2008-05-31 12:03:00

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OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|7073|Washington DC

Poseidon wrote:
OrangeHound wrote:
Poseidon wrote:
What church isn't?
Actually, there are tons of churches that are not political ... many actually reject politics entirely.
Okay, what MAJOR church isn't? Some smaller church communities may, but the larger ones on the most part are all the same.

I'm not sure what you mean by "major" ... or whether you mean a big church or a big denomination.

But, it only takes a few of these "churches" to become highly political, or it only takes a few Robertsons/Falwells/Swindolls/Colesons/Dobsons and suddenly all of American Christianity is stereotyped as political.

But that characterization is just not the truth.*

There is a major segment of the American church that is not political, and even a stream of theology that teaches that furthering God's agenda through political means is the work of Satan (idealist view of Revelation, for example).

_{* Actually, if one were to stereotype the agenda of most American churches, it would be as a self-serving social organization - like a middle-class country club or an Elks lodge.}

2008-05-31 13:01:04

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Vax: Member; +42|6275|Flyover country

ATG wrote:
If you just listen to the audio it sounds like a stand up comedy routine.
If you watch the video, it is disturbing. Barrack says he never heard Wright say anything racist in the twenty years he attended the church. But it appears race baiting and politics are what this ( tax exempt ) church seems to be all about.

I wish Obama had not said that stuff about "not knowing" this goes on, because, I don't believe him. Falsehoods are not the way to deal with uncomfortable issues.
You can distance yourself from this without pretending ignorance; just acknowledge and repudiate the views as extreme, explain why, and many would let it slide. Even though I do also find it disturbing that he had anything to do with this creepy church, he probably was doing his perceived civic good by getting them grants for things like employment centers...it is clearly a poisonous atmosphere in terms of the rhetoric.

So far I have been kind of iffy on who I throw my vote to (pros and cons for both sides) and Obama has a couple of black marks due to associating with these people, and a bigger black mark that he pretended ignorance.

2008-05-31 13:15:59

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Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6829|North Carolina

Stingray24 wrote:
Turquoise wrote:
SoC./Omega wrote:

What the hell are you talking about?

Wright and Pfleger have said some dumbass things that only hurt Obama, and you refuse to acknowledge that he associates himself with these men? I doubt you know that Obama gave a 25K donation to this church, to pay these assholes salaries.
I think Poseidon is implying that Rod Parsley and John Hagee are just as much assholes as Wright and Pfleger are. However, both McCain and Obama have denounced these people, so we're back to square one.
The denunciations by McCain and Obama are for political expediency, nothing more. If he truly disagreed so vehemently with their teachings, Obama shouldn't have stuck around for 20 years.

Very true. All I gotta say is... Obama's church is proof that religion can attract both right-wing nuts and left-wing ones. Obama's church is of the lesser noticed left wing variety.

2008-05-31 13:18:28

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SEREMAKER: BABYMAKIN EXPERT √; +2,187|6992|Mountains of NC

Since all the other liberals want to keep church and state separate, I do wish Preachers Ministers etc etc would just keep there mouth shut on politics

2008-05-31 13:27:45

#20

Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6829|North Carolina

SEREMAKER wrote:
Since all the other liberals want to keep church and state separate, I do wish Preachers Ministers etc etc would just keep there mouth shut on politics

Hey, I totally agree man. Religion and politics should always be separate.

2008-05-31 13:35:55

#21

SEREMAKER: BABYMAKIN EXPERT √; +2,187|6992|Mountains of NC

Turquoise wrote:
SEREMAKER wrote:
Since all the other liberals want to keep church and state separate, I do wish Preachers Ministers etc etc would just keep there mouth shut on politics
Hey, I totally agree man. Religion and politics should always be separate.

I do go to a fairly large Baptist church but I'll get up and walk if I hear someone start in on politics ....... I think its disgraceful, heres a person that people hold very close and he can start to express his views about a canidate ( be good or bad ) and sway someones thoughts on that canidate .......... it should be the canidate and his/hers actions, motitvates, speechs, plans etc etc that convince a person to vote for him/her

2008-05-31 13:46:39

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Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6751

There was an article in the IBD about Obama, his Church and submitting to this whole "Black Liberation Theology".

We know his [Obamas] longtime mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, detests America and its capitalist system, viewing it as unjust, oppressive and enslaving to minorities. He and his fellow travelers think they have in Obama the perfect candidate to remake America into a self-loathing dispenser of apologetic largess to victim groups at home and Marxist regimes abroad.

Key among these is reverent-turned-preofessor James Cone, who velieves merging Marxism wsith the Gospel will liberate African-Americans from the supposed economic slavery of "white" capitalism. "Together,"he says, "black religion and Marxist philosphy may show us the way to build a completely new society."

Cone is the mentor of Obama's mentor, Wright. Wright adopted Cones "black liberation theology" as his church's core doctrine. Cones books are required reading at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, where Obama has worshiped for the past 20 years.

And later it writes:

According to the theology, divine justice will come when black Jesus (Obama's church believes Christ was black) grants African-Americans the power to permanently destroy "white greed" and white institutions and replace them with their own "black value system." Cone writes that "black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy" and all its institutions.

More:

Likewise, Obama has suggested he'd use his faith as "an active, palpable agent in the world," and a source of "hope" in overcoming "economic injustice."

Note: I'm not very good at debating. Especially politics. But, I just wanted to share parts of this editorial. It is actually quite long! Taking up two columns on a full page of the paper!

Nature is a powerful force. Those who seek to subdue nature, never do so permanently.

2008-05-31 13:51:39

#23

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|7024|132 and Bush

This thread did a face plant when I read the first sentence. Nothing says "Hey I'm racist" quite like having "a close personal friend" of another race.

ATG wrote:
Looks like McCain will be our next president after all.

Why?.. because you stumbled on to an irrelevant video on youtube?

Here's an outspoken Hillary supporter.

what does it mean?.. nothing really. It's just a bunch of jackasses trying to sell CD's.

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2008-05-31 13:56:36

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Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6829|North Carolina

As I've said, religion has a tendency to warp certain people's minds.

2008-05-31 14:00:06

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S.Lythberg: Mastermind; +429|6870|Chicago, IL

Turquoise wrote:
As I've said, religion has a tendency to warp certain people's minds.

some religion

the preachers at my church refuse to endorse a candidate or policy, saying that it's not their place to decide.

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