[NEON DEON]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Neon,

Thanks for posting that, I read your post as well as accessed the website.

The problem is that I still don't see much to be upset about.

It is a church that seems to have a primarily black audience and its mission statement seems to be aimed toward blacks.

Personally I would like to eliminate all racial context. But this aint my church.

Sounds like a bunch of black people trying to help black people. Don't see much wrong with that.

This just seems to re-enforce my opinion that the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. was a radical nut case in an otherwise pretty decent church.

I strongly disagree with what he said in a few of his sermons, but in the philosophy of what Voltaire may or may not have said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

In any case, I really can't find any fault with the Church's mission statements or any other statement I have read on their website.

Would I go to that church? Probably not, but that is hardly a criteria for a good church

So you dont think that point 8 and the four other points within point 8 are divisive in anyway and that these points wont foster hatred of white people?

#8.1,.2,.3,&.4:

1. Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
2. Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
3. Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which, while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us.”
4. So, while it is permissible to chase “middleclassness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method – the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness.” If we avoid this snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright: the leadership, resourcefulness and example of their own talented