As long as I live I’ll never get over seeing the image of a rich white politician in the pulpit of a black church “preaching” to the congregation. Whenever I see a photo like this, I think of a widely-reported story about Al Gore at an NAACP event growling and trying to sound like a black Baptist preacher during his failed presidential run.
I hope I never see a photo of President Bush doing something so obviously ingratiating and insulting. Brother Edwards said:
“While we celebrate and worship this morning, tonight somewhere in America a 10-year-old girl will go to bed hungry,” Edwards said Trinity Baptist Church in Richmond. “You and I have a moral responsibility to lift those families out of poverty, we can do that together.”
Preach, John, preach!
This out-dated, 60s-style stump “preaching” would be high comedy if it weren’t such a shame.
What kind of pastor would let Edwards (or any politician) into his pulpit to preach a gospel of racial division and class envy? That a so-called man of God, a shepherd of the flock, would let divisive hypocrites “preach” to his sheep is utterly appalling. So what else is new?
When I read this story, I thought of the apostle Paul: “I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” 1 Corinthians 2:2
