Preaching to the choir
Everyone seems surprised about Rev. Otis Moss III, Jeremiah Wright’s replacement at the Trinity United Church of Christ, who compared Wright’s forced removal from Obama’s campaign this last week to a public lynching, as written about at Sweetness and Light;
Sunday’s sunrise sermon, delivered by Rev. Otis Moss III, was called “How to Handle a Public Lynching” and focused primarily on the media firestorm that has focused international attention on this Chicago ministry, which is the church attended by the Democratic presidential candidate.
Moss did not directly mention his spiritual mentor by name, but implied to the congregation at Trinity United Church of Christ that Wright, who has delivered sermons in which he likened the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and said it is damned for its state-sponsored terrorism, is facing the same challenges Jesus did.
“No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching. The lynching was national news.
Everyone seems surprised that he called NPR National Publican Radio, as reported by Newsbusters‘ Mark Finkelstein;
The lynching was national news. The RNN, the Roman News Network, was reporting it and NPR, National Publican Radio had it on the radio. The Jerusalem Post and the Palestine Times all wanted exclusives, they searched out the young ministers, showed up unannounced at their houses, tried to talk with their families, called up their friends, wanted to get a quote on how do you feel about the lynching?”
But the problem with Wright and the problem with Moss is not their sermons – it’s their audience. Saner people who aren’t convinced that all of their problems were made by someone besides themselves have left the congregation.
It’s the hyper-partisan, hyper-victims (the same types that were perched on their roofs in New Orleans cursing George Bush for not personally plucking them from their predicament) that are left in the church that need a preacher to stroke them every Sunday and tell them that the stuff they were involved in on Saturday isn’t their fault. That’s the problem, see, Moss is just preaching what those small-minded, irresponsible cretins want to hear. The customer is always right.
Category: Society
Pathetic. God’s servants are supposed to edify people. That’s all I have to say. (I’m a little angry to say much more.)
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The writer of this blog presents a myopic viewpoint ignorant of the Black liberation experience. Admittedly, as an African-American I do not wholeheartedly agree with the totality of interpretation in this circumstance, however, I am compelled to express how largely offended I am by the comments that Moss and Wright’s problem is their audience. The audience is not the “choir”, but a multi-faceted, intelligent and diverse people in a house that espouses a particular viewpoint. There is a difference. Still further, the persons in New Orleans, Mississippi and other sundry places within the South denounced Bush AND the governmental establishment which failed to respond to their plight as American citizens in an appropriate time frame. That said, while your entitled to your view point–it comes across as elitist, devoid of understanding, and in much need of reform. Perhaps an attempt to dialogue with those whom you criticize before judging them in writ may yield a more intelligent response and interpretation on your part. Jonn wrote: My viewpoint is the same view point of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Booker T. Washington. King opined that he looked forward to the day when the children of slaves played together with the children of slaveholders on the red clay of Georgia. Washington said; There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs… There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. “Black liberation theory” is just another way… Read more »
Allow me to give you a clue, you coward. John doesn’t have to answer to you or anyone else for that matter. If you are as racist as this pastor, then go somewhere. We believe in a Holy God who is pure, and good and Holy. We do not hate, and we do not separate.
Hey! WE DO NOT HATE! WE DO NOT SEPATATE!
Rather catchy, wouldn’t ya say? Go away, kid. You bother me.