He's baaaack

Jeremiah Wright that is:

For the first time since his retirement last spring, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. returned to the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ this morning with two goals: glorifying God and vilifying the media.

In honor of Trinity's 47th anniversary, Wright preached Sunday worship services in place of Rev. Otis Moss III, who was attending his father's farewell from the pulpit of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland.

Citing the revelation to Mary by the angel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God, Wright said Mary's disbelief was similar to the doubts some faithful shared about the future of Trinity after Wright's retirement and the possibility of a black man being elected president.

"Our legitimate questions tend to be asked from the vantage point of limited horizons," said Wright during the 7:30 a.m. service. "Mary had a limited horizon. She couldn't see how it was possible."

"In almost every instance where I have encountered this phenomenon, what I have discovered is that the limited horizons are caused by the tendency to look for a person to provide you with answers for your legitimate questions," Wright continued. "I really should say our legitimate questions, not your legitimate questions, because God knows I've got some questions myself."

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Wright said no amount of media coverage could dampen Trinity spirit.

"Jesus said upon this rock I will build--listen to the promise--my church," he said. "And the gates of Hell--listen to the promise--the gates of Hell--neither ABC nor CNN--the gates of Hell--neither Hannity nor O'Reilly--the gates of Hell--neither Time, Time magazine, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune ... the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Nothing will be impossible with God."

At the 11 a.m. service, Wright belittled "baby milk believers," who, he said, suffer a delusion that politics don't belong in the pulpit. He pointed out that "Luke the evangelist, not Wright the radical" lambasted the oppressive policies of the Roman government in the Gospel story that recounts Jesus' life.

"Any preacher who dares to point out the simple ugly facts found in every field imaginable is demonized as volatile, controversial, incendiary, inflammatory, anti-American and radical," Wright said, taking time out to note the thousands of Japanese civilians who died 67 years to the day when American warplane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. (Actually, Dec. 7 marks the day when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.)

He implied that his previous use of derogatory language to describe Italians in a past sermon referred to the Roman oppression Luke condemned.

"Emperor Augustus in Rome--that's in Italy, dizzy blond on the View," Wright said, presumably referring to conservative television personality Elisabeth Hasselback, who has railed about Wright on the ABC daytime talk show.

Wright might want to consider that the Gates of Hell use two way hinges, that they swing inwardly and not just outwardly.

And to think that some have sat in this man's church for more than 20 years.

An amazing thing.

H/T Gateway Pundit.

 

Comments

[Jvette]

Wright is a blowhard narcissist who honestly compares his leaving Trinity to the Virgin Mary's fiat. And, how fitting that he would mention the victims of the H-bomb in Japan and not those of Pearl Harbor on its 67th anniversary. We will hear a great deal from this guy over the next few years. He and all the other America haters believe that the country agrees with them and they will be unable to contain themselves.

[John Littleton]

Freedom of speech and freedom of religion are not one in the same. Freedom of religion does not give the churches in the USA the right preach politics or use church buses to take people to vote at the same time passing out candidate information as to how to vote. This has been done in the black community churches ever since the voting rights act was passed. I don't know of a single church that lost it tax free status.
I think they have every right to be critical of the media as long as they don't slander individuals from the pulpit. In that case the individual has every right to sue. This is nothing new but why does the government continue to give ministers a tax break on their homes. Ordained practicing minister in the USA are not required to pay taxes on their housing allowances. The only other people in the USA who do are those in the military. If there is a true separation of church and state a Pastor who is getting paid 150,000 dollars a year and 50,000 is tax free housing allowance. This is not fair to all american taxpayers.