{"id":1379,"date":"2008-03-23T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T22:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2008-03-23T18:21:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T22:21:51","slug":"preaching-to-the-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Preaching to the choir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s sunrise sermon, delivered by Rev. Otis Moss III, was called \u201cHow to Handle a Public Lynching\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching. The lynching was national news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everyone seems surprised that he called NPR National Publican Radio, as reported by Newsbusters<\/a>‘ Mark Finkelstein;<\/p>\n

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?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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