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Most of us have seen and heard it by now.  The images of Reverend Jeremiah Wright,  who presidental hopeful Barak Obama's claims is his friend, mentor and inspiration,  yelling, hissing and spitting enough venom to make a cobra envious in front of his clearly enthusiastic congregation.   Though claiming to be Christian, his sermons are erryly similar to any number of Anti-American radical Islamic clerics.  Take your pick which one. 

I'm not going to talk about those sermons though.  That's being taken care of already by a number of bloggers, columnists and talk show hosts that are alot more skilled at that than I am.   What I'm focusing on is an observation I had while listening to callers and reading statements critisizing both Reverend Wright, and Obama for associating with him.  The observation was that most of the critics had one thing in common; they were all Christians. 

Now, I've stated before that I'm not religous.  It's not so much that I'm anti-religion, it's just that I have no real place for it in my life.  However, I have noticed one major difference between followers of Islam, and followers of Christianity...  When a radical Islamic cleric preaches anti-American or anti-Semitic statements, the followers of Islam, including those living right here in the U.S. and claim to be moderate, rarely say anything to dispute the cleric's words.   To be sure, there may be a few, but one would be hard pressed to find them.   Maybe they agree with the context, though they wouldn't do violence themselves.  Maybe they're afraid of repercussions.  At any rate, they either say nothing, or give a weak defense along the lines of "he shouldn't have said that, but....", usually followed by some crime America or Bush has done in the past.

I, along with many others, always believed that if a radical Christian were to give a similar sermon, he would be immediately rebuked by other Christians.  Judging from their angry reactions, it looks like we were right.  Both he, and Obama, have been assailed on all sides by angry Christians from all races and walks of life, who most definately do *not* agree with his bigotry against whites, Jews and America in general (not including, of course, the enthusiastic followers of his church).   Yes, he does have the occasional supporter who agrees with his views and supports his right to free speech, but they're in the minority. 

I guess I can just say I'm glad to see I was right, and I'd like to give the Christians my thanks for proving it. 

One final thought.  It should be noted that most people don't select a church because they want to be converted to that church's ideals.  They select that church because it already falls in line with their way of thinking.   Both Barak and Michelle Obama have attended that church for many years.   That should tell you something about them, and the rest of the congregation of Trinity United.

Reverend Wrights "Sermon" (youtube video)

The only thing more disturbing than the sermon, is the reaction of the congregation.  Remember, these folks will be voting soon.