Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ conducted its first Sunday services in 20 years without Barack Obama as a member.
The Democratic presidential frontrunner quit the South Side church on Friday.
Sen. Obama has faced months of criticism for his association with Trinity’s controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
More recently, a visiting speaker to the church openly mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama’s chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Speaking to reporters Saturday in Aberdeen, S.D., Obama said his church experience had become a “political circus.”
Obama is having an Episcopal “experience”. Welcome to the circus. When’s the clown Eucharist?
It will be interesting to see if Obama can really shed the anti-American liberation theology steeped aura of his ~20 year tenure at Trinity Church (along with the baggage associated with his spiritual/political followership under the influence of Wright, Pfleger and Farrakhan) as easily as a snake sheds its skin. I think the affects of his spiritual relationships will be much more enduring despite his “deeply personal” politically motivated act of quitting Trinity Church. Is there anything or anyone he won’t try to throw under the bus? I think not.
How many of us can stand up to the baggage of our churches?
Trinity reacts. Is that news?
#3, when our church’s baggage exceeds our willingness to bear the load of it we do something about it, work for change, leave, something. Obama did just that when Trinity Church’s baggage exceeded his willingness to bear it … after only ~20 years of hearing a consistent message of anti-American liberation theology. The load only became unbearable for him within the context of his attempt to persuade the American people to nominate him as the Democrat Party candidate for the Presidency. Absent his political ambitions there is no reason to believe Obama would have found anything he heard at Trinity Church to be out of line with his beliefs.
So… he’ll join what church??
Dilbertnomore must have been following Obama and Trinity Church very closely for the last two decades to know this much about both the man and the church.
I sure hope that no one thinks they know what I believe based on the sermons given in the churches to which I’ve belonged in the last 20 years. Foolishness on the right, silliness to the left, and just a lot of twaddle. Then there is the occasional guest preacher out in left field (or right field, as the case may be).
This whole line of attack on Obama — and I don’t expect to vote for him — smacks of desperation.