"Washington Post" Columnist Trashes Buchanan
But Reveals Only
His Own Biblical Illiteracy
 BROTHER
BUCHANAN telling inconvenient truths.
By John Lofton, Editor
“Washington Post”
columnist Colbert I. King, a black man, has blasted columnist
Pat Buchanan, a white man (see, no “discrimination” or racial
profiling here) for a column Pat has written in which Pat — well
- told some - what shall we call them? - how about —
inconvenient truths. This kind of thing happens regularly in
Washington DC when someone tells the truth about something —
that person gets blasted.
For openers, Brother
Buchanan believes there’s just a wee whiff of racism surrounding
the slogan of Barack Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in
Chicago. The slogan is: “Unashamedly black and unapologetically
Christian.” King writes: “Buchanan and his ilk look at Trinity’s
slogan with horror. They label the church’s theological values
‘Afro-centric’ and ‘racially exclusive.’ Trinity is beyond the
pale of Christianity, at least their version of it.”
Comment (as one of the
“ilk” mentioned by King): I don’t know if Pat is, in fact,
literally, “horrified” by this slogan. Probably not. He doesn’t
get “horrified” easily. But, yes, there does, indeed, seem to an
aroma of racism around this exaltation of blackness in TUCC’s
slogan. And, interestingly, King does not defend the slogan. No,
instead he begs questions about this slogan saying only: “Psst:
Trinity has plenty of company, coast to coast. Many black
congregations, from storefronts to mega-churches, are in sync
with the Trinity slogan.”
Well, psssssssssst!
yourself. Who cares how widespread the support is for this
slogan. That’s utterly irrelevant in the context of a discussion
re: whether the slogan is racist or not. In the 1950s, in the
South, many white folks were “in sync” with hating and sometimes
murdering blacks, with segregation , with “White Only” signs in
various places, etc. So what?
King writes, re: all
those “in sync” with the TUCC’s slogan: “They, too, see no need
to apologize for their African roots. Nor are they ashamed of
preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
 IT’S
AMAZING GRACE, not race, Mr. King.
Comment: And who,
please, has suggested that any blacks apologize for their
African roots? Not Buchanan. But, I wonder (though not really):
Can a person, as a Christian, exalt and preach the Gospel of
Christ and his race and/or ethnic origin? Did Christ or His
Apostles go around bragging about their respective races and/or
ethnic origins? Not at all. For example, St. Paul says in
Galatians 3:28, to Christians: “There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor
female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Got it, Mr. King? As
Christians, we are commanded to be all one in Christ Jesus -
period.
No black, no
white, no Greek, no Jew, no male, no female, etc. Your race, my
race, they are utterly irrelevant to God. There is no “race” in
the Bible except as an athletic contest. In fact, God tells us
in Acts 17:26 us that He “hath made of one blood all nations of
men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their
habitation.”
Amazing Grace! That’s
what God is about - not anybody’s amazing race.
Do you and Obama want to
boast, Mr. King? Then boast not about your race, sir, but boast
all day long about God and praise His Name!! (Psalm 44:8). If
you are a Christian, boast of God for saving you by grace alone
not any works you’ve done (Ephesians 2:8-9).
King asks: “But hey,
what’s with this newfound concern about African Americans
worshiping among themselves in their own way? More important,
who forced that separation? As sociologist Kenneth Clark noted
in his book ‘Dark Ghetto,’ ministers and lay leaders of white
Christian churches historically were unwilling to incorporate
large numbers of blacks into their houses of Christ. That’s
still the case today with some churches.”
Comment: If Clark is
right then this was/is wrong! If any church
turns away anybody only because of their race or ethnic origin
this is a sin because it is a judgment based on appearance, on
race/ethnic origin which our Lord forbids! John 7:24: “Judge not
according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
Racism is a sin.
 JEREMIAH
WRIGHT and one of his sheep. Not all of Wright’s rants
are wrong. To criticize what our country has done is not
always to be ‘anti-American.’
King writes: “Truth is,
folks like Buchanan don’t really care that America’s Christian
congregations don’t look like salt and pepper on Sunday
mornings. The reality of blacks and whites worshiping apart
doesn’t disturb them.”
Comment: True - but not
in the way King intends his observation to be taken (that is,
that Pat is a racist because he doesn’t racially profile church
congregations.) Pat is not a racist and I am not a racist. Thus,
we do not care what the racial makeup of our
respective congregations is. We do not racially profile during
worship. As long as there is no discrimination just
because of race or ethnic origin we do not care if our
respective congregations are salt & pepper or all salt or all
pepper.
King’s knickers are also
in a wad because Pat said: “America has been the best country on
earth for black folks” - an assertion not denied, incidentally.
King names no other country where “black folks” have it better
than in America. Evidently reading Pat’s mind, he writes: “If
anything, Buchanan thinks African Americans are ingrates — that
we should be satisfied with our station in lifeƒ.Buchanan would
have African Americans fall to their knees and thank white
people for their grace.” Pat, of course, did not say any of
this; these are King’s words, not Pat’s.
King writes: “Truth is,
the right-wing commentariat is content to have black churches
with timid members worshipping under the banner: ‘I’m but a
stranger here; heaven is my home.’”
Comment: This crack
reveals only King’s Biblical literacy because yes, as
Christians, heaven is our home. As Philippians
3:20-21 assures us: “For our citizenship is in heaven; whence
also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall
fashion anew the body of our humiliation, (that it may be)
conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working
whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.” And
you do not have to be “timid” to believe this. Amen!
King writes: “It’s those
black congregations with pastors who make their churches a voice
of liberating gospel, with a loud emphasis on sticking up for
the persecuted and afflicting the comfortable, that
right-wingers consider a threat to the republic.”
Comment: Black, schmlack!
Stop dragging race into everything! And it’s the Gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ that “liberates” and it matters not the race
of the preacher. It is the preached Word that saves! And it’s
God’s judgment and wrath that threatens our Republic not “black
congregations with pastors who make their churches a voice of
liberating gospel, with a loud emphasis on sticking up for the
persecuted and afflicting the comfortable.”
King writes: “I also
knowƒthat church plays a religious and cathartic role unlike
that of any other institution in the black community. It’s a
haven, a place for emotional release and personal affirmation.
The pastor is given much leeway, so long as the church is held
together as a family.”
Comment: The purpose of
“church,” of Christians assembling themselves for worship, is to
worship God decently and in order, according to the way He has
commanded in His Word, this way assuring that He will, indeed,
be worshipped decently and in order. The purpose of worship is
not “emotional release” or “personal
affirmation.” Such phraseology is secular psychobabble and has
nothing to do with God other than being condemned by Him.
King writes: “Those
thoughts may be beyond the understanding of people who wonder
why Obama will not leave Trinity.”
Comment: Trust me. Had
Obama known that the ravings of his Pastor (not all of them
wrong, by the way) would become widely known, and have the
impact they have had on his political ambitions, he would have
hit the ejection-pew button years ago.
Source:
http://www.theamericanview.com/
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