4/1/2008

What does Trinity United Church of Christ have to hide?

The Trinity United Church of Christ's website seems to be fading like Michael J. Fox's family photo in "Back to the Future".

ABC reporter and blogger Jake Tapper was on WLS-AM 890's Don Wade & Roma show this morning to share the story:


From Tapper's blog:

The website for Sen. Barack Obama's church -- Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago -- not long ago described the "Black Value System" in the "About Us" section of its website.

And it used to provide a link to the Trumpet Magazine that once gave an award to Louis Farrakhan -- a magazine published by Rev. Jeremiah Wright's daughter.

No longer.

For those interested, you can see the cover the Trumpet Magazine tribute to Louis Farrakhan by clicking here.

It would go without saying that these actions suggest that Trinity feels it has something to hide. The blog Illinois Review noted the changing face of Trinity's website in the thick of the Rev. Wright brouhaha back on March 15th.

Disappearing from the site was information about the church's "Black Value System" and black liberation theology. Why might the church want to hide this information? Here's the crux of the underpinnings of the theology, as recounted by one James Cone, who Wright credits with "systemitizing" this theology:

Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . . . Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

Love your neighbor as yourself, it's not.

So, have the discarded Trinity United website details dissipated into the ether, lost forever down some unknown tube of the internet? Not so fast. Let me introduce you to the Internet Archive:

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

You can click here to view the results of a way-back search for Trinity's website with info dating back to 1997. Only time will tell exactly what interesting nuggets of information, long since removed by Trinity, could be contained within...

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