But first (things first), I'll briefly 'cover off' vis-a-vis a certain *Jeremiah Wright, who was - if you remember - the one-time pastor of a certain American president...-Barack Hussein Obama's however 'no brainer' decision to pretty much 'throw him under a bus' in his all-out effort to become president being a shameful episode in his run-up to election as America's first ever black American President.
Though Obama's decision quite clearly spoke of realpolitik at its most raw and basic level - and any and every political commentator at the time (and before and afterwards) would've doubtless suggested he had no alternative whatsoever if he really seriously wanted to be elected - I still happen to be so old-fashioned as to believe the end still doesn't justify the means, and that what Obama did ultimately spoke to his own lack of true, sterling (let alone godly) character, however unnoticed by the sophisticated set or commentariat of the day...
Besides, to somehow feign that a message (i.e. sermon) in which said pastor lambasted his own nation in no uncertain terms by entreating "God damn America!" (on multiple occasions, as is the wont of **Negro/African American/black preachers in the U S of A over the centuries as they use the simple but useful 'tack' of emphatic repetition to ram a particular point home) - as opposed to the usual "God bless America!" - was one he neither heard nor had had any idea about...
...is simply stretching credibility a little too far by a country mile or several...
Surely if ever there were not only a memorable sermon but moreover one inciting massive controversy both within and without Wright's and Obama's church, that would've been it...
*Without referring to him as he is - or at least was - known, i.e. by the monicker of 'Reverend', having (literally millennia ago) been strictly warned off that sacred space by my Lord and Saviour; such a title being rightly reserved for One and Only One Person...
**Using in this one instance all three - ***civil - terms which have been used over the centuries for the imported darker populace of the United States.
***Because as we all know there have been all manner of demeaning and derogatory terms used - whether in recent times or (doubtless) back in the time of slavery (and after this) - by all sorts of other Americans about their longsuffering black population...including, incidentally, by a particular President well-feted in liberal, 'progressive' circles...
To Be Re-continued...
Though Obama's decision quite clearly spoke of realpolitik at its most raw and basic level - and any and every political commentator at the time (and before and afterwards) would've doubtless suggested he had no alternative whatsoever if he really seriously wanted to be elected - I still happen to be so old-fashioned as to believe the end still doesn't justify the means, and that what Obama did ultimately spoke to his own lack of true, sterling (let alone godly) character, however unnoticed by the sophisticated set or commentariat of the day...
Besides, to somehow feign that a message (i.e. sermon) in which said pastor lambasted his own nation in no uncertain terms by entreating "God damn America!" (on multiple occasions, as is the wont of **Negro/African American/black preachers in the U S of A over the centuries as they use the simple but useful 'tack' of emphatic repetition to ram a particular point home) - as opposed to the usual "God bless America!" - was one he neither heard nor had had any idea about...
...is simply stretching credibility a little too far by a country mile or several...
Surely if ever there were not only a memorable sermon but moreover one inciting massive controversy both within and without Wright's and Obama's church, that would've been it...
*Without referring to him as he is - or at least was - known, i.e. by the monicker of 'Reverend', having (literally millennia ago) been strictly warned off that sacred space by my Lord and Saviour; such a title being rightly reserved for One and Only One Person...
**Using in this one instance all three - ***civil - terms which have been used over the centuries for the imported darker populace of the United States.
***Because as we all know there have been all manner of demeaning and derogatory terms used - whether in recent times or (doubtless) back in the time of slavery (and after this) - by all sorts of other Americans about their longsuffering black population...including, incidentally, by a particular President well-feted in liberal, 'progressive' circles...
To Be Re-continued...
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