If Dr. Jeremiah Wright is the spiritual mentor that guides Barack Obama then it becomes easier to understand how and why Obama himself may not have that Biblical of a grasp in terms of understanding the gospel.

Remarks attributed to Wright that were posted on audio files on the Internet and cited in press accounts earlier this year may have prompted the criticism.

“Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college.

"Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.

"We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. ... We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. ... We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.

"And ... And ... And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this sh*t!"

Let me hasten to add some of the things even mentioned in this quote lifted from one of Dr. Wright's sermons are true concerns. And wherever injustice abounds God's heart grieves.

But Dr. Wright's thinking is as hypocritical as the boogey men (real and imagined) that he takes his swipes at.

For example "Human life - and the ends justifying the means?"

Where is that more prevalent than Dr. Wright's own community where the girls from his own church are sent to go and exterminate the next generation of black boys and girls? And actually in every inner city black neighborhood where Barack Obama's votes have consistently kept the abortion industry alive through the installment of Planned Parenthood clinics!

But what drives the core of Dr. Wright's warped values? Basically, simply put - bad theology:

“To have a church whose theological perspective starts from the vantage point of Black liberation theology being its center, is not to say that African or African American people are superior to any one else. …There is more than one center from which to view the world. In the words of Dr. Janice Hale, ‘Difference does not mean deficience’ [sic]. It is from this vantage point that Black liberation theology speaks.”

To reduce the cause of the Gospel - the death of Jesus Christ, his ressurection from the dead, the Holy Spirit's call to an unbeliever and the person's response - to reduce this to merely a message of "Black Liberation" is not necessarily racist, and racial superiority as some of Dr. Wright's critics have claimed.

It is heresy...

Before white people ever had the chance to oppress and enslave blacks in Europe or North America - sin existed. Blacks enslaved, mutilated, and sacrificed other blacks on the African continent. In fact were it not for what we would now term "self-hating" black tribal leaders on the African continent who sold their fellow Africans like property - European and North American slavery would not have existed. Jews were made slaves in history. And depending on your period of history so were any number of "white" ethnicities - as was the world in a day in which WAR was even more savage than today.

Has injustice been erased? Absolutely not! But if thinking that the Gospel was meant to primarily be an allegory given primarily to explain North American Black Liberation reduces the magnificence of the miraculous work that was accomplished over ALL sin - racism included, and to create what Black Liberation does not and can not - a life line directly to God.