‘Jeremiah Wright’s Prayer Answered?’
by J. James Estrada (10/29/08)
A Chicago preacher has famously prayed for God to “damn America”. Jeremiah Wright just may have that prayer answered with this singular event: the election of his spiritual son, Barack Obama, to the presidency of the United States.
In the Old Testament, when God wanted to punish his people for turning against Him—failing to acknowledge His place in their lives and worshiping idols-- He would permit foolish men to become their kings and rulers. He would then pour out his wrath in the form of famine, pestilence, and other hardships. Many times he allowed Israel to be carried away from their homes into captivity and long exile by invading armies. Very young men quite often ascended to the throne during these times, as their inadequacies focused God’s disapproval.
In the twenty years Obama sat under Wright’s fiery romps through black liberation theology, he learned from Wright that a “God” not tuned to the “black experience,” and one not willing to extract a toll for this experience from white people, is no “God” of theirs. How do we know this to be the case? Obama, with his “spread the wealth” gospel, seems willing to take up this cause on behalf of the “God” that has failed in this purpose. (Obama also laments that the Supreme Court could not carry out this task). And so, “we are the ones, we’ve been waiting for,” says the man that Louis Farrakhan calls “the messiah.”
Will a Barack Obama presidency bring blessings from Heaven? Not if he is the answer to Wright’s prayer.
J. James Estrada
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