Thursday, March 20, 2008

Brain Candy

I was engaging in that anti-American behavior of actually looking up and reading information for myself, to make an INFORMED decision- and I came across a religious based blog with point of view on the Rev. Wright/Obama issue-

Here is a short passage from God's Politics-

Putting Rev. Wright's Preaching in Perspective (by Diana Butler Bass)

The current media flap over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor, strikes me as nothing short of strange. Anyone who attends church on a regular basis knows how frequently congregants disagree with their ministers. To sit in a pew is not necessarily assent to a message preached on a particular day. Being a church member is not some sort of mindless cult, where individuals believe every word preached. Rather, being a church member means being part of a community of faith—a gathered people, always diverse and sometimes at odds, who constitute Christ's body in the world.

READ THE COMPLETE POST HERE- GOD'S POLITICS


(yes its true- even heathens such as I have some level of spiritual knowledge)

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