Black Liberation Theology

I have been thinking quite a bit about how a human being comes to the point of believing that "killing white cracker babies is OK.  The link above takes you to a segment of the Glenn Beck show that discusses Black Liberation Theology.

I decided to blog on this topic today because a friend sent me a link to a youtube video about the Gospel according to Oprah Winfrey. 

I had a deeper understanding of how Oprah came to these conclusions because I have been researching Black Liberation Theology.  No, she's not advocating killing babies and I doubt she attends a BLT Church like Obama's minister Jeremiah Wright, but the foundation of her views on God, Jesus, and religion seem firmly based in this world view.

I've been saying that forced redistribution of wealth and the concept of "social justice" as that term is used by Progressives today is not to be found in the scriptures.  So the Beck segment helped me put this into context.  If you cannot find it in scripture you need to add a little Marx to the equation.

In a PBS show; This Far By Faith James Cone (founder of BLT) says:

"For me, the burning theological question was, how can I reconcile Christianity and Black Power; Martin Luther King, Jr's idea of nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary philosophy?"  (Preface to Black Theology and Black Power, p. viii.)

Christianity, as he understood it, no longer explained or held meaning in the turbulent years of the late 1960's.  "I was within inches of leaving the Christian faith. " If he were to remain a Chrisitian, Cone would have to reinterpret his faith to respond to such demanding times.
website:  www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/james_cone.html

At a wikipedia site I found:

Cone's thought....stresses the idea that theology is not universal, but tied to specific historical contexts......interpreting the central kernel of the Gospels as Jesus' identification with the poor and oppressed, the resurrection as the ultimate act of liberation.

This all sounds like relativism to me.  It also shows the scary and dangerous paths it can take you on. 

There is also an interesting article at the Asian Times site written by an unknown person who just calls himself/herself "Spengler" (referring to a German philosopher, Oswald Spengler)  The title is "The Peculiar Theology of Black Liberation."  It's worth reading.
At one point the author states: "In the black liberation theology taught by Wright, Cone, and Hopkins, Jesus Christ is not for all men, but only for the oppressed." 

Sounds like something Karl Marx could agree with if he could bring himself to the point of even mentioning the words theology and Jesus Christ.

In a review of the book, "Is God a White Racist" a reviewer on the Amazon site states: "Jones does have a proposal to get around the possibility of divine racism by seeking to replace the all-powerful God who is actively involved in human events with a God that is not involved and leaves humanity to work its own problems out.  This position is what Jones calls Humanocentric Theism.  God exists, but God ain't involved."

That is not a Christian world view.  Oprah makes it sound so warm and fuzzy.  Cone makes it sound ethnocentric.  The New Black Panther party makes it sound violent and revolutionary.  They all basically believe the same thing.  In particular they believe in collective salvation as does Obama.  Grace has not place in their world view.  Individual salvation has no place in their world view.  Hence, individual rights have no place in their world view. 

Let me know if you would like the links to some of the sites I've mentioned.  I'm having problems inserting them in this post.  Just leave a comment and your email address, or email me directly.

As Pope Benedict XVII has stated in "Truth and Tolerance" (p. 116)
"Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much.  Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic"

As we remain in God's hands,
LB