After comparing the sermons of Jesus ("not the kind of preaching
that nets you space on Fox News") to those of Jeremiah Wright,
regular DailyKos contributor Devilstower
explains:
Is the vision of a pastor standing in his
pulpit shouting "God damn America" shocking? Yes. But don't mistake
Wright's (or Jesus') statement for what some drunk in a bar would
mean using the same phrasing. Wright isn't saying "FU America!"
he's saying "these actions of America are worthy of God's
condemnation." Â He's just saying it in a way that cuts
through the Sunday morning sleepiness and makes people sit up in
their pew.
And further:
A dangerous religion isn't one that challenges
people and makes them squirm. Makes them angry. A dangerous
religion is one that is too amicable to what you already think, one
that pats you on the head and sends you forth in assurance of your
own righteousness. If you want to search for "traitors" in the
pulpit, turn your eye toward those who never find anything wrong in
the actions of this nation.
Keep in mind this holier-than-thou kicker comes a couple
paragraphs after the writer acknowledges, "Do I think that 9/11 was
the 'chickens coming home to roost?' Yeah, I pretty much do." In
other words, Devilstower defends Pastor Wright because...Pastor
Wright's views are "amicable" to what he already thinks. The
sentiment of seeking intellectual and spiritual combat is fine, of
course, but I don't think we'll be seeing Kossacks flocking to
midwestern evangelical churches or Catholic Latin masses to have
their views challenged anytime soon. The "shocking" aspects of the
religious right's beliefs are no doubt somewhat less thrilling to
the religious left than they assume hating anyone in a higher tax
bracket than them is to the rest of us.
In other words, more self-righteous blather of the sort Obama
devotees and their Dear Leader will probably soon be able to
trademark.
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