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We have been hit over the head with snippets of sermons from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright...painting him as the lunatic fringe...does anybody in America believe in context anymore???? Does anybody want to read or hear the whole sermon given on September 16, 2001 called "The Day of Jerusalem's Fall"???????
Does anyone realize when he talked about Americas foreign policy being "The chickens coming home to roost" He was actually quoting Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan’s terrorism task force, who was speaking on FOX News. That’s what he told the congregation.
He was quoting Peck as saying that America’s foreign policy has put the nation in peril!!!!
Here are some excerpts from the sermon...
“We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, Arikara, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism.
“We took Africans away from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.
“We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel.
“We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenage and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard working fathers.
“We bombed Qaddafi’s home, and killed his child. Blessed are they who bash your children’s head against the rock.
“We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We bombed a plant in Sudan to pay back for the attack on our embassy, killed hundreds of hard working people, mothers and fathers who left home to go that day not knowing that they’d never get back home.
“We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.
“Kids playing in the playground. Mothers picking up children after school. Civilians, not soldiers, people just trying to make it day by day.
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.
“Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y’all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people we have wounded don’t have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that.”
He went on to talk about seeing the second plane hit the tower and imagining what it would be like to never see our families again...“What is the state of your family?” he asked.
Later in the sermon he questions the audience...
“Maybe we need to declare war on AIDS. In five minutes the Congress found $40 billion to rebuild New York and the families that died in sudden death, do you think we can find the money to make medicine available for people who are dying a slow death? Maybe we need to declare war on the nation’s healthcare system that leaves the nation’s poor with no health coverage? Maybe we need to declare war on the mishandled educational system and provide quality education for everybody, every citizen, based on their ability to learn, not their ability to pay. This is a time for social transformation.”
Oh yeah and that famous "God-Damn America" line was not uttered during this sermon on 9/11 it was a different point being made from a different sermon...
This guy doesnt sound as nutty to me as John Hagee (a republican Mccain Endorser) who calls the Catholic Church The Great Whore...or Rev Parsley (a republican Mccain Endorser) who says America was created in part to destroy Islam which was inspired by demons and we should bomb Iran to induce World War III...That sounds a tad more nutty and frightening to me than Rev Wrights foreign policy critiques...
Bottom line Mccain never said those things and doesnt believe them...Obama never spoke Rev Wrights words...
I went to Catholic school for 16 years and think 75% of what I heard and learned is nutty and wrong...that doesnt mean I would ever disrespect the specific priests or nuns who helped me in many other ways and taught me about the example of Jesus as Socialist Revolutionary...
"If Christ hadn't delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and pity, I wouldnt want to be a human being. Id just as soon be a rattlesnake."----Kurt Vonnegut
If some woman is lucky enough to marry me in the future I wouldnt hesitate to be married by Monseignor Byrne from the church I grew up in...a man who shares only about 25% of the same beliefs I do but a decent man no matter how many times he told me I was going to hell...
peace...
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Terence Patrick Burns
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