Oprah moved from Rev. Wright to ... the dark side ...

We all know that Oprah Winfrey was a member of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Black Liberation Theology church, Trinity United Church of Christ, with some of Chicago's most influential thinkers and leaders, among them lawmakers, judges, and more. Her message boards are full of comments about Wright.

Associates of Oprah Winfrey tell Newsweek that she stopped attending the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ during the 1990s in part because of the tone of Wright's sermons.

According to two sources, Winfrey was never comfortable with the tone of Wright's more incendiary sermons, which she knew had the power to damage her standing as America's favorite daytime talk-show host. "Oprah is a businesswoman, first and foremost," (The Swamp)

We are told that visitors on a typical Sunday morning might see and hear flavors of Pentecostal worship, prophetic preaching, political activism, self-empowerment and individual salvation and healing. The church brags about being "unashamedly black, unapologetically Christian", ... unashamedly black is correct, unapologetically Christian is questionable. I see what Wright preaches as a slap in the face to the God and Jesus Christ that I know from the Holy Bible.

Deep-Shift thinking; Word-Faith teaching; New Age teaching; New Spirituality; The Shift; Cosmic Humanism; Eastern mysticism; Emergent’ or ‘Emerging Church’ (ECM); What do all these have in common? Two things, moving away from orthodox Christianity and Oprah Winfrey. What they preach is a counterfeit social gospel.

Oprah may have left Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church, but what she turned toward is even worse. What better platform to preach Oprah's new heresy than her TV show, radio broadcasts, book promotions, magazine, TV network, and the internet? That's just what she's doing.

THINK: Have you been hearing words like 'change', 'crisis', 'common good', transition…transformation…energy… shift… community... lately? Who have you been hearing those words from? Do those people represent your beliefs? The Left, Left-wing politicians, Liberals inside the Republican and Democrat parties, and possibly, pastors and ministers ... See Democrats’ Platform for Revolution, By John Perazzo, FrontPageMagazine, for the kind of "change" we can expect.

No longer does 'sin' have it's original meaning, now it is defined as ‘missing the point’. Personal responsibility for one's actions is no longer popular, being replaced by one mind, one Christ, social bologna.

Thanks to Flanders Fields for the tip on this fine article, New Age Spiritual Leader - Oprah Shifts to the Dark Side, By Marsha West at Canada Free Press. I suggest you go read the entire article and footnotes. The article is long, but worth your time. Here's a taste:

Marianne Williamson is only one among many of Oprah’s guests who are outright occultists. Oprah’s mass viewing audience has unwittingly (in some cases) received occult instruction from Marilyn Ferguson, Neale Donald Walsh, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, John Bradshaw, Jack Canfield, Shirley MacLaine, Yanla Vanzant, Gary Zukav, Jerry and Esther Hicks, John Edward, Rhonda Byrne, and Eckhart Tolle. (More on Tolle in a moment.) What do these people believe? For one thing, you can create your own reality. “The message is the same,” says Russ Wise, “there is a power, an energy, a force within you that opens your understanding to your true self – your God-Self, your innate Divinity. There is no individuality; we are one. We only believe we are separate, but in reality we are all a part of God’s ‘oneness.’” [5] May the Force be with you!

Wise continues:

“In her book that launched her popularity on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1992 she [Williamson] made this observation, ‘If you go deeply enough into your mind, and deeply enough into mine, we have the same mind. The concept of a divine, or “Christ” mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being. “There is only one begotten Son” doesn’t mean that someone else was it, and we’re not. It means we’re all it. There’s only one of us here.’ Williamson then makes the analogy that we cannot separate ourselves from God no more than the wave can separate itself from the ocean.” [6]

Former New Ager and author Ray Yungen laments, “This is the decision the world is now facing—is God a personal being or is God the Universe and all that it entails?” [7] In other words, is there a transcendent God who lives outside His creation, or are we all gods as New Agers believe? [snip]

Did you get that? Anyone who holds to absolute truth, as taught in the Holy Bible, “are a dangerous thing in religions” and “reflects a collective mental illness.” Influential occultists are out to transform dimwitted Christians into the likeness of Satan! [snip]

Remember the good old days when Christians heard the authentic Gospel of Jesus Christ preached from the pulpit instead of the postmodern watered-down version? ... What is disgraceful is that many pastors are becoming Life Coaches instead of teachers of the Word. We’re told, “Do your best and you’ll get into heaven.” This is so not true! In Mat. 7:14 Jesus said, “But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” [snip]

Granted, Scripture twisting is nothing new. Even the Apostle Paul had to deal with false-teachers who were plunging the early Church into heresy. In Galatians 1:8 he gave this stern warning to God’s people:

“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!” (continue reading)

I'm sure this article will elicit more intelligent comments and emails like the following (spelling etc. in context):

From someone calling themselves Ta Neil:

You know I'm so tired of white supremacists attacking the Blak churches. This wouldn't be effecting anyone if he weren't telling the truth. Whites have not changed anything but their white sheets. Hillary can make all sorts of racist statements when she can't piggy back off of Sen. Obama and the white supremacist rat media says nothing.

It's not Blak peoples problem that whites have chosen a life-style that is immoral. You designed it and yes chickens have come home to roost and their are more coming. Because of the Blak church no because of your conscious decisions to deceive, steal, kill, and destroy a people that you have deemed inferior.
It's funny when 9/11 happened whites were scrambling around and saying "we" have just been bombed. Suddenly Blaks were apart of america. After things cooled down and it was found that jew basically were apart of it then everybody shut up and Blaks became niggers again. White supremacist fags and dykes said they were being treated like slaves because they couldn't legally marry, and then Fox announces Mexicans do the work niggers won't do. And issue racist stamps but Mecha is not a racist organization at all right?
I'm tired of infantile savages throwing their garbage on the Blak community.

If you creatures would have stood on your own two feet from the beginning we all wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.

And another one from Ta Neil:

You are the voice of white supremacy. You are a pseudo intellectual who's pissed off because the world hates her and will kill her if they get the chance. Make fun of Blaks all you want, we've lasted longer than you can think of new ways to kill us all.

And this one from someone calling himself Michae Musick:

consider the difference between your comfy life and the impoverished, desperate lives of the people you're condemning. stop complaining, broaden your mind, and try to solve the problem instead of inflaming it. with a little effort you may become a worthwhile citizen yet.

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Comments

[Howard]

OPRAH ... from spending several years in Jeremiah Wright's anti-American racist church, listening to sermons like "God Damn America", and giving life time achievement awards to the likes of Louis Farrakhan ... to her newest opportunistic religious beliefs ... who could possibly take Oprah seriously? This woman's ego is soooo big, being a billionaire celebrity isn't enough, she has to start her own religion ... not to mention all the additional money she is going to make selling all those book, tapes, CD's, etc. to her poor followers. Oprah's new power hungry ambitions include efforts to replace traditional America with Obama ... and access to a President she puts into office ... to her efforts at replacing Christianity with a new religion she controls. I think it's time for America to deny Oprah access to our television sets.

[Debbie]

This all means many Americans are headed down a destructive path spiritually and personally. But collectively, it's bad news for America as a nation.

[No Compromise]

Postmodernism rears its ugly head in politics and the media, our education system, and not surprisingly, the "Church."

It's a dangerous anti-philosophy pushed on the uneducated by sophists and we better wise up to this if we are going to have a chance of winning people to our side.

Postmodernism is where we get Darwinism, and Life being seed from the backs of crystals shipped down to earth by aliens.

Yes, it sounds insane, but postmodernism double speak is insanity.

Thanks for the great post Debbie!

[Always On Watch]

Syncretism and interfaithing have led to the watering down of Christian doctrines in many churches. Is it any wonder that many of those raised in "Christian" homes (nominal Christians) are searching for something more? Hence, the attraction to New Ageism and even Islam.

In my view, Obama and Wright have set back race relations here in the United States. Whites and blacks are more suspicious of each other now. Sad, sad.

[Aurora]

Debbie, this is an excellent post. It resonates in every way. I especially like this comment:

What they preach is a counterfeit social gospel.

Today I read that McCain has attached himself to another pastor, John Hagee. Hagee has some controversial views, but not like Wright. The problem here is that many people are going to lump Hagee in with Wright due to the time proximity. This is going to put a blot on true Christians and tie them in with the counterfeit more than ever before.
I am afraid that a few (perhaps many) are going to fall off the wagon once the wagon gets rocking a bit. Those who are easily led are going to confuse Wright wtih the real thing.

[Debbie]

Mystical Time Traveler: Good point, poor judgment on Oprah's part concerning Dr. Phil. It's all about ratings I guess. Seems to me her audience would be a little smarter though. I never watch Oprah.

The good thing for Oprah and the New Age stuff is, there's always a new prophet each month or two. So she always has somebody new to promote.

[Mystical Time Traveler]

Oprah dumped Wright because if his sermons got out, her ratings would go into the basement and her show would go bye-bye.

Now she's enthralled by these New Age creeps. Showing that she only goes for the flavor of the month, and not for any real spirituality. This is best shown in her liking of Dr. Phil. A lousy psychiatrist at best, a charlatan at worst.

[Debbie]

Snooper: Good news, thanks for sharing.

[Snooper]

David is correct...the Obamatites can only prey on the stupid.

WAY off topic but our Screamin' Eagle has arrived in Kuwait awaiting schedule to leave theater for home.

[Debbie]

David:

But it makes them FEEL so good...

[David]

*sigh*

These charlatans can only prey upon stupid people. Yes, I said stupid. The mindset that lets people be sucked in by such "idjits" is the result of lazy, slack-jawed, willfull ignorance, which is the most telling description of stupidity I know.