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Life is a sweater, clothing every individual in the world. The threads of the sweater are each choice, individual event, and outcome that has happened in our lives. Finally, the pattern off the sweater (on the sweater) is what our lives look like, and look like to others. Some sweaters are filled, with butterflies, vivid colors, and countless other beautiful, God filled things. Still others, are jet black, frayed, from choices and results, unfulfilled. Although, every sweater is unique and different, they are all made from our choices, reflect our true inner self, and always show the truth.
In every news spot, from the time Reverend Jeremiah Wright gave his NAACP presentation and the answers at the National Press Club, there has been mass speculation, parsing of words (by Wright, pundits, and news anchors), and mainly the words from Reverend Wright himself. When a man of the cloth (no matter what denomination, or religion), makes statements like these: "The US government made and put the AIDS virus into the black community [to cause genocide]," "The chickens have come home to roost [in referring to America, deserving to be hit on 9-11]," and his countless remarks over the last two major meetings and two sermons over the weekend, there is no excuse for them. There are very few professions in life, requiring absolute faith, decision making and character, and most importantly the truth and ethics, in both professional and personal life.
One of those professions is being a religious leader. Regardless, of the religion, the leader is bound by God, to teach and preach to followers, what is in God's message. In the Christian faith, there are countless priests, ministers, reverends, and other leaders who are men of God and lead a group in the congregation, in the truth of the Lord (Jesus Christ). However, there are a handful of those leaders, in the Christian faith, who may have once been pure of heart, but have strayed off of the path, for their own fortunes, ideologies, or narcissistic reasons. Reverend Wright is one of those people. A narcissistic man, who has now thrown Barack Obama under the bus, and is making a media road trip, to serve his own ego and ultimately to sell a best selling book (in the fall).
Jeremiah Wright is not only a self serving reverend, but he uses the Bible, God, and his pulpit to spew an Afro-American agenda, filled with hate and segregation to a portion of the black community. When he was confronted on the remarks, he made in the United Trinity pulpit, he hid from the media, leaving Barack Obama to field the questions, call him an "uncle that you cannot, just disown" and burying Obama in a mound of democratic Clinton rhetoric (not to mention the media, news stories, and constant pundit interviews). When Wright came back, for what was perceived as a low key home coming, instead he is grand standing, stating "this whole thing is not about me, but about the Black Church" and whenever possible fuels his own agenda, by pontificating his own credentials and bashing anyone who disagrees.
Overall, Wright is the worst kind of "man of God." He has put himself, thrown some in his congregation under the bus (Obama), possibly derailed the first Afro-American president in the White House (for his own gain), he has also put everything in his own ideology (to segregate the black community, from anyone not black) in front of God, but maybe the worst thing about "The Reverend Jeremiah Wright" is he puts one of the seven deadly sins, in front of everything. Wright's vanity has manufactured him into this position, by putting himself, in front of God, God's word, and most importantly leading God's children down the wrong path. Hopefully, he will see the error of his narcissistic ways, before it is to late. I know I will be praying for him.
