Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Black liberation theology is basis for Obama’s views

http://www.fwdailynews.com/articles/2008/08/11/features/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/evening_star/doc48a0340b2575d794846128.txt

[fwdailynews] 12 Aug 2008--The candidate for President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has sat under the ministry of the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years. He is the preacher who has condemned and damned America and said that America had 9-11 coming to us, the pastor who has given Louis Farrakhan many accolades, a man who has compared the U.S. Marine Corps with the Roman Legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior and that the flag of Al Qaeda and the American flag were the same flags.

Rev. Wright is an apostle of liberation theology, a theology rooted and developed in Latin America in the l960’s. The theologies of liberation seek to provide deliverance for oppressed and marginalized people by changing the structures which deny them the privilege of determining their own destiny. It was fostered by the concern for the problems of underdevelopment that arose out of the Latin American Episcopal Conference held in Medellin, Colombia in 1968.

Liberation theology not new

Liberation theology is neither new nor limited to Latin America and it has become a world-wide theme which includes women’s liberation and black theologies.

Mark Rush, a black man, writes in the BorderFire Report, “Black Liberation Theology … has been fostering largely unseen within the church since the 60’s. Indeed, it is likely that it would have remained ‘hands off’ if not for the Obama/Wright controversy.”

Liberation theology has a reactionary bias against traditional evangelical theology. It is doctrinally vague. The point of departure is the human condition of sin. The social, political and economic contexts have been so overemphasized that even the deeper problem of a person’s sin is quickly passed over, if not ignored. They purport that their model for the new humanity is Jesus Christ but nothing is said about the power of God in Christ to deliver man from sin.

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