Is Jeremiah Wright Mainstream?

What really does amaze me that in years past during Presidential elections Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were given big '"put downs" by the media BECAUSE THEY (PAT & JERRY) COULD INFLUENCE AN ELECTION. HOWEVER, this radical, egotistical man Jeremiah Wright is being invited by all BIG organizations to speak!! JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.

Great and informative article. I'm disappointed that 'Black Liberation Theology" wasn't explained more clearly. American Christians, white and black, need to understand what that means.

Liberation theology started as a way for Marxist and communist influence to get a foothold in the Latin american Catholic society. Then it grew into US radical movements, and civil rights groups. "Black Theology" is not Christian; it sees the Bible as a book about oppressed people, not about salvation. Instead of love, reconciliation and hope, you get a message of hate, revenge, and political power. Evangelicals of all stripes should condemn it and call churches back to submitting to the Bible, instead of using it for personal gain.

I find it difficult to watch everyone so politicize what comes from the pulpit. It seems as if no one take into accunt the historical, cultural and baltant social injustices that has caused "Black Preaching" to be what it is today. Liberation Theology of a Jeremiah Wright is blased. Healt and properity of a Bishop Jakes or a Crefllo Dollar has been in a backhanded way looked down on. If ones takes time to study the "Black Church" you will find out that both methods are healty and propersous in moving the Black Church forward.

On the other hand, Senator Obama should not have to defend or denouce the culture of the Black Church. I guess it denying one's heritage and once Social, political, and historal background is who we can avoid race issues in our society that still has not fully come to grips with race. Wow, if Senator Obama becomes president, should he denouce being Black? I guess this is all a part of the Season of Silly.

That was a very interesting point about the relationship between "Liberation Theology" and "Prosperity Theology" within the African American church culture. I had not thought very deeply about it, and, from my perusal of the main news stations, they have not thought about it at all (particularly Fox News Channel).

There are many churches, including some very prominent ones, that preach some variety of Liberation Theology. If Dr. King had not been assassinated, I suspect that he would have went in this direction, given his progressive tendencies. The only other major strain is Pentecostal Holiness Theology, which is what many of the Prosperity preachers came from. In a way, it is ironic, because the Holiness movement tended to disdain material success, viewing it as worldly, and the prosperity take the opposite position.