We Have to Talk...

(Thank you, as always, to my beloved wife who continues to inspire me to write and to rightness.)

It's time we talked about the Reverend Jeremiah (Johnson) Wright.

http://www.tucc.org/home.htm
This is the home page of his church, the Trinity United Church of Christ. Doctrine and statements of faith can be found here, as well as audio sermons if I'm not mistaken, though I suspect they've been selectively sorted for listening.

I don't like him. I think he's a butthole.
I don't like his demeanor, I don't like his message, and I sure as hell don't like his delivery.
He displays a clerical arrogance I'm intimately familiar with and I wonder deeply what's in his heart when he has given the sermons he's now famous for. The public examination of this man went no farther than "G-d damn America!" and I'm genuinely curious about his other messages in general when compared to the holy roller blather I've heard so far.
All in all, butthole. Definately.
But is he wrong?
Before we get into that it must be stated categorically that this man's presence and vocality is extremely dangerous to our established powers. He's pointing out things that are not just criminal but treasonous and those things are the responsibility of people in power right now. Wright's on the cooker in the public eye at the moment, yet no due consideration of his allegations and declarations regarding the state of the nation is being conducted. This is illogical because the actual issue everyone's upset about is made irrelevant and this entire sideshow is nothing more than national venting through the smarmy, narrowed eyes of professional broadcasters, left, right or centrist.
I'm angry too. I didn't like what he said or how he said it. Yet I have deliberately refrained from giving the man's message due consideration myself, and so I share culpability. I have enough fear that he could possibly be validated in his accusations that I have not put his words under the microscope. I'm afraid too. Wright may be right.
We don't like the word "should" in our household because it implies an authority for someone to tell someone else what to do, say or think. But the Rev. Wright should have declined all interviews and any further comment on his exposure and Obama's association, except to either invite people to his church or (and I can't believe I'm so spiritually lame that this just occurred to me!) USE HIS NATIONAL MEDIA ATTENTION TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL!
Unfortunately, because I would have enjoyed the process of getting into this publicly, the Rev. Wright has backed down, watered down and let down with his message. Basically, he's pussed out. And just for politics. This is inexcusable for a Christian considering the incredible opportunity now passing by, just as it would be inexcusable for me to accuse the man of not using this opportunity when perhaps he already has on a tv talk show. I could have missed such a thing and but it's spread would still have been immediately stomped on for obvious if deplorable reasons.
It would have been something to see, had he evangelized to the entire world, even if only in one broadcast before they tagged him and bagged him. He certainly couldn't have been afraid of being labeled as a kook.
But what about the gist of what the man has said? I cannot speak authoritatively on the subject because, as I said, I'm a chickenshit. But I'll try to grow a pair and in due course continue this post with my thoughts after a serious examination of whatever he believes and delivers to his congregation.