personally, i’d prefer Rev. Wright

Rick Warren will give a prayer at the inauguration of Barack Obama. Personally, I’d prefer the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He’s a liberation theologian. He was Barack Obama’s pastor in Chicago. And during the ungodly-long 2008 presidential campaign, Rev. Wright was placed in the spot light, focusing on what some have said were his outrageous statements. Like the government of the United States is responsible for terrorist attacks. Rev. Wright said our gov’t invented the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.

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I sit here and wonder, why does anybody think these statements are outrageous. How, in the spectrum of bullshit that has been perpetrated in the years since Richard Nixon, can anyone seriously get worked up over what this man has said???

Our government has lied us into war, supported brutal regimes to protect global corporate interests and, along the way, has exposed its own citizens to radiation and used citizens as lab rats to track the course, over decades, of syphilis. It appears that our country has a history of experimenting on its citizens.

And too many of those who claim to bring us Godliness and God’s words have turned a blind eye to the slaughter of innocents around the globe… as they campaign for the criminals perpetrating the crimes.

At least Rev. Wright, as far as I know, hasn’t asserted that anyone running for president must believe in God. Rev. Warren, I’m sorry, but this is a secular country that is supposed to be run by a secular government specifically to protect my freedom of or from religion. And we need you out-the-way of the left so we can work to insure civil liberties for ALL Americans to marry. Just for starters . . .

Nor did Wright say, as did Rev. Jerry Falwell that . . . pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way – all of them who have tried to secularize America – I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this (9/11) happen. How can one even respond to such nonsense?

This election was, in my estimation, a mandate to move away from ideologues, panderers, and religious hacks. And the clear difference between Rev. Wright and people like Rev. Warren? Wright points a finger at the masters of the universe for accountability.

The Rev. Warrens and Falwells keep pointing the finger at ordinary people, most of us victims of slash and burn economics and shock and awe politics.

I don’t want Rev. Warren at the inaugural. He represents everything I believe we should jettison from politics. Having him there is pandering to what is worst in our nature. It’s time to stop politics as usual. These times are too serious to bring in the kind of players that insist on creationism in our science classes and end up hijacking science. These kinds of political-religious hacks want to have control over my bedroom choices, my lifestyle choices, and in my doctor’s office. And they could care less that global corporations slaughter native peoples and destroy the earth for the all-mighty dollar.

I don’t that kind of world anymore. It’s just that simple.

And it is an insult that Rev. Warren, in the face of all that has happened, will be there.