Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Una bel sermone

Questo e' il sermone del Pastore di Obama che ha fatto incazzare i
buoni Americani.
Il sermone per il quale Obama si e' dovuto scusare.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeremiah_wright/2008/03/the_day_of_jerusalems_fall.html
Every public service of worship I have heard about so far in the wake
of the American tragedy has had in its prayers and in its preachments,
sympathy and compassion for those who were killed and for their
families, and God's guidance upon the selected presidents and upon our
war machine, as they do what they do and what they gotta do - payback.
There's a move in Psalm 137 from thoughts of paying tithes to thoughts
of paying back - a move, if you will, from worship to war, a move in
other words from the worship of the God of creation to war against
those whom God created. And I want you to notice very carefully this
next move. One of the reasons this Psalm is rarely read in its
entirety [is] because it is a move that spotlights the insanity of the
cycle of violence and the cycle of hatred.
Look at the verse, look at the verse - look at verse nine: "Happy
shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the
rocks." The people of faith are the rivers of Babylon. How shall we
sing the Lord's song? If I forget the order ... The people of faith,
have moved from the hatred of armed enemies - these soldiers who
captured the king; those soldiers who slaughtered his son, that put
his eyes out; those soldiers who sacked the city, burned, burned the
towns, burned the temple, burned the towers, they have moved from the
hatred of armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents - the
babies, the babies.
Blessed are they who dash your baby's brains against a rock. And that,
my beloved, is a dangerous place to be, yet that is where the people
of faith are in 551 BC, and that is where far too many people of faith
are in 2001 AD. We have moved from the hatred of armed enemies to the
hatred of unarmed innocents. We want revenge, we want paybacks, and we
don't care who gets hurt in the process.
Now I asked the Lord: "What should our response be in light of such an
unthinkable act?" But before I share with you what the Lord showed me,
I want to give you one of my little faith footnotes.
Visitors, I often give little faith footnotes, so that our members
don't lose sight of the big picture, let me give you a faith footnote.
Turn to your neighbour and say, "Faith footnote".
[Voices: "Faith footnote".]
I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday. Did anybody else
see him or hear him? He was on Fox News. This is a white man, and he
was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out -
did you see him, John? - a white man, he pointed out, ambassador, that
what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in
fact true, America's chickens are coming home to roost.
We took this country, by terror, away from the Sioux, the Apache, the
Arawak, the Comanche, the Arapajo, the Navajo. Terrorism - we took
Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them
enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism. We bombed Grenada and killed
innocent civilians - babies, non-military personnel. We bombed the
black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed
unarmed teenagers, and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard working
fathers. We bombed Gadafy, his home and killed his child. Blessed be
they who bash your children's head against the rocks.
We bombed Iraq, we killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living.
We bombed the plant in Sudan to pay back for the attack on our embassy
- killed hundreds of hard-working people - mothers and fathers, who
left home to go that day, not knowing they'd never get back home. We
bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki and we nuked far more than the
thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.
Kids playing in the playground, mothers picking up children after
school - civilians, not soldiers. People just trying to make it day by
day. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and
black South Africans, and now we are indignant? Because the stuff we
have done overseas is brought back into our own front yards.
America's chickens are coming home to roost. Violence begets violence.
Hatred begets hatred, and terrorism begets terrorism.
A white ambassador said that, y'all, not a black militant. Not a
reverend who preaches about racism; an ambassador whose eyes are wide
open, and who's trying to get us to wake up, and move away from this
dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said
that the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we
have, but they do have individuals who are willing to die and take
thousands with them, and we need to come to grips with that.
Let me stop my faith footnote right there, and ask you to think about
that over the next few weeks if God grants us that many days. Turn
back to your neighbour, and say, "Footnote is over."
[Voices: "Footnote is over."]
Now, now. Come on back to my question to the Lord: "What should our
response be right now, in light of such an unthinkable act?" I asked
the Lord that question Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
I was stuck in Newark, New Jersey. No flights were leaving La Guardia,
JFK or Newark airport. On the day that the FAA opened up the airports
to bring into the cities of destination those flights that had been
diverted because of the hijacking, a scare in New York closed all
three regional airports, and I couldn't even get here for Mr Radford's
father's funeral. And I asked God: "What should our response be?"
I saw pictures of the incredible. People jumping from the 110th floor;
people jumping from the roof because the stairwells and elevators
above the 89th floor were gone - no more. Black people, jumping to a
certain death; people holding hands jumping; people on fire jumping.
And I asked the Lord: "What should our response be?" I read what the
people of faith felt in 551 BC. But this is a different time, this is
a different enemy, a different world, this is a different terror. This
is a different reality. "What should our response be?" And the Lord
showed me these things. Let me share them with you quickly and I'm
going to leave you alone to think about the faith footnote.
Number one: The Lord showed me that this is a time for self-
examination. As I sat 900 miles away from my family and my community
of faith, two months after my own father's death, God showed me that
this was a time for me to examine my relationship with God. My own
relationship with God - my personal relationship with God.
I submit to you that it is the same for you. Folk flocked to the
church in New Jersey last week. You know that foxhole-religion
syndrome kicked in, that emergency cord religion, you know that little
red box you pull in an emergency? It showed up full force. Folk who
ain't thought about coming to church in years were in church last
week. I heard that mid-week prayer services all over this country
which are poorly attended 51 weeks a year were jam packed all over the
nation the week of the hijacking, the 52nd week.
But the Lord said, this ain't the time for you to be examining other
folks' relationship; this is a time of self-examination. But the Lord
said: "How is 'our' relationship doing, Jeremiah? How often do you
talked to me personally, how often do you let me talk to you
privately? How much time do you spend trying to get right with me, or
do you spend all your time trying to get other folk right?"
This is a time for me to examine my own relationship with God. Is it
real or is it fake? Is it forever or is it for show? Is it something
that you do for the sake of the public or is it something that you do
for the sake of eternity? This is a time for me to examine my own, and
a time for you to examine your own relationship with God - self-
examination.


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#_Un sermone emotivo che viene fuori  dalle "gats"e  pieno di scottanti 
verita`!
_Un sermone che e`stato usato e lo sara`ancora se la Clinton ( come spero) 
sara`eliminata. Ovvero I soliti sputi dalla destra rep. che punteranno sullo 
scontatissimo "patriottismo" dei sostenitori e non.
A quello ha replicato Obama con un discorso: " A more perfect union" , che 
passera` agli annali della storia americana.
C'e`un link del suo discorso, ma sto cercandone il testo scritto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrp-v2tHaDo&feature=user
(E` molto lungo e con una connessione lenta e`sconsigliabile, ma certamente 
da registrare pure)
Giano

Qui il testo completo del discorso di Obama " A more perfect union"
(molto lungo)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-read-t_n_92077.html
G.