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Not again! Meet Obama's new controversial pastor

Champion of communism, socialism called U.S. 'destroyer of human life'

Posted: March 15, 2010
5:14 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2010 WorldNetDaily


Jim Wallis

Rev. Jim Wallis, a member of President Obama's "faith council" who is described as a spiritual adviser to the president, is a socialist activist who has championed communist causes and previously labeled the U.S. "the great captor and destroyer of human life."

Wallis was in the news last week urging Christians to stop watching Fox News host Glenn Beck's program for Beck's remarks against churches that preach "social justice."

The Associated Baptist Press described Wallis as a "politically progressive evangelical and longtime advocate for the poor." The Huffington Post identified Wallis as a "Christian author and social justice advocate."

Wallis, however, is a long time socialist advocate and founder of a far-left magazine, Sojourners, that has championed communist causes.

He currently serves on Obama's White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He reportedly is a spiritual adviser to Obama and has known the president for years.

Wallis began his activism as a protester and then later Michigan leader of the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960's antiwar group from which Bill Ayers' Weatherman domestic terrorist organization splintered.

Discover the Networks said that as a theology student, Wallis founded an anti-capitalism magazine called the Post-American, which identified wealth redistribution and government-managed economies as the keys to achieving "social justice."

In 1971, Wallis renamed his magazine Sojourners. He has since served as editor of the publication.

Sojourners' official "statement of faith" urges readers to "refuse to accept [capitalist] structures and assumptions that normalize poverty and segregate the world by class."

Sojourners has published a slew of radicals, including socialist activist Cornel West and James Cone, considered the founder of Black Liberation Theology, which spawned the likes of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of nearly 20 years.

Wallis' magazine actively lobbied for communist regimes that seized power in Latin America in the late 1970s, including the Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua. Sojourners in the 1980s was a fierce opponent of the U.S. nuclear buildup, claiming the policy was "an intolerable evil" irreconcilably at odds with Christianity.

Discover the Networks notes how Sojourners originally formed a socialist commune in Washington, D.C., where members shared finances and launched anti-capitalist activism.

In his 1976 book, "Agenda for Biblical People," Wallis called the U.S. "the great power, the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in its totalitarian claims and designs."

Wallis continues to openly support socialism. Along with socialist activist West, Wallis in 1995 founded Call to Renewal, a coalition of religious groups demanding the spread of U.S. wealth to promote "social justice."

As a guest on MSNBC last week, Wallis stated "social justice" is at the heart of the Bible.

"The God of the Bible is the God of justice," he said. "Though the poor are in the center of God's concern... Poverty breaks the heart of God. And it breaks the heart of the church. So, this is about Christians who may disagree on politics. Republicans, Democrats, it doesn't matter. Left or right. We have different views on the role of government. Doesn't matter, But justice is integral to the gospel."

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Related article on Rev. Wallis/Glenn Beck
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-191333.html

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"As a guest on MSNBC last week, Wallis stated "social justice" is at the heart of the Bible."

I believe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his divinity doctorate thesis on the theological theory of "social justice", and brought it to the forefront as a part of his teaching and speeches advocating U.S. social change during the 1960's.

What a moronic hypocrit ROFLMAO!! I'm guessing he doesn't have a problem receiving cash from the feds as a result of capitalism, eh?

All funds should be cut off to this leech,after all, he doesn't believe in capitalism, so why reap the fruits of capitalism?

Discover the Networks said that as a theology student, Wallis founded an anti-capitalism magazine called the Post-American, which identified wealth redistribution and government-managed economies as the keys to achieving "social justice."

Gee...sure sounds like some of the principles our commander in chief adheres to.

Originally Posted by miguelina

What a moronic hypocrit ROFLMAO!! I'm guessing he doesn't have a problem receiving cash from the feds as a result of capitalism, eh?

All funds should be cut off to this leech,after all, he doesn't believe in capitalism, so why reap the fruits of capitalism?

LOL...all these marxist believe in capitalism so long as they personally benefit from it! Rev.Wright lives in a 10 million dollar spread, but has the audacity to complain about the white power structure in this country keeping his followers down. Ditto for louis farrakhan, al scharpton and my all time favorite, jesse jackson.

Sojourners has published a slew of radicals, including socialist activist Cornel West and James Cone, considered the founder of Black Liberation Theology, which spawned the likes of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of nearly 20 years.

Do we need any more evidence that obama is a Black Liberation Theology radical?? Actually, it's getting rather insulting to have these radicals being shoved in our face again and again, while obama denies any tendencies or adherence to this philosophy!

Actually, all forms, even tyrannical forms like socialism, marxism, and fascism are actually at their core capitalist. The difference is in who owns the capital. The 3 mentioned all believe the state should own the capital, and the people too, since they view the people as capital (chattle slaves).

A true free market like the one before the robber barons, where it was difficult to manipulate or monopolise the markets, because companies weren't that big, was about the best as every company owner, owned his place. Congress gave charters for lorge companies to form that were 10 year charters as long as they promoted the General Welfare. If they didn't or could prove they did, they didn't get the charter.

John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil changed that in the 1890s or early 1900s. By bribing governments in New Jersy and Delaware first with the promise of huge tax revenues. And the rest is history. It led to economic empires that gained control of government at every level, and uses money, power, and influence to get their done for them by government at the peoples' expense.