Bad friends make worse enemies

From the Washington Post...

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright would be happy to see Barack Obama's presidential campaign derailed because the pastor is fuming that his former congregant has "betrayed" their 20-year relationship,

The Post has learned. "After 20 years of loving Barack like he was a member of his own family, for Jeremiah to see Barack saying over and over that he didn't know about Jeremiah's views during those years, that he wasn't familiar with what Jeremiah had said, that he may have missed church on this day or that and didn't hear what Jeremiah said, this is seen by Jeremiah as nonsense and betrayal," said the source, who has deep roots in Wright's Chicago community and is familiar with his thinking on the matter....

"Jeremiah doesn't care if he derails Obama's candidacy or not . . . He knows what he's doing. Obviously, he's not a dumb man. He knows he's not helping."...

The source noted that the roots of Wright's disillusionment with Obama began last year after the Illinois senator unexpectedly yanked him from participating in the public announcement of his presidential campaign.

Another thing that seems to be missed is that Obama's "evidence" of his faith is his membership in Wright's questionable church, yet Obama now wants to minimalize that membership, while retaining the charade that he's a Christian.

I recently read that a new church in Chicago has been reaching out to disillusioned former members of Wright's "church", who are finding that what they were taught was not at all the Christianity of the Bible. It seems there's a ripe mission field in need of the real Gospel, sitting in the pews of the Trinity United Church of Christ.

Posted by Danny Carlton at April 30, 2008 6:56 AM