US Elections 2008 - II

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<b>The Real Agenda of Black Liberation Theology</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And what might these institutions be?  They are not specified.  But it is safe to say that they are not the welfare state or the Democratic Party. <b> Given that black liberation theology is a product of the dreary leftist politics of the twentieth century, the very vehicles employed by the left to advance statism certainly can't be the culprits</b>. 

For the left, <b>black liberation theology makes for close to a perfect faith.  It is a political creed larded with religion.  It serves not to reconcile and unite blacks with the larger cultural, but to keep them separate.</b>  Here, again, The Washington Post reports that "He [Wright] translated the Bible into lessons about...the misguided pursuit of ‘middle-classness.'"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If any further proof is needed that black liberation theology has nothing to do with the vision of Martin Luther King -- with reconciliation, brotherhood and universality -- the words of James H. Cone, on faculty at New York's Union Theological Seminary, may persuade.  Cone, not incidentally, originated the movement known as black liberation theology.  He said to The Washington Post:

<i>"The Christian faith has been interpreted largely by those who enslaved black people, and by the people who segregated them."</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->