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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 23:00:26 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   I think the "... making claims that are questionable and even outright false" part will either prompt a tantrum or a block.
   
   But I don't care, because IMO, he's not a good person at all.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 09:24:59 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     in reply to
     > youre [sic] just another fraud with no profile ... run along you hiding punk.
     
     That's no fun. I'd rather have seen you throw a tantrum
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 22:35:16 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     in reply to
     Okay. Enough of this bozo.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 02:35:27 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     in reply to
     > youre not worth my time
     
     Oh, likewise. For sure.
     
     It's too bad, because between loudly TRUMPeting your Christianity (see what I did there?) and making all sorts of evidence-free claims (many of which are easily disproved with a simple Web search, such as "Rev Wright converted from Islam" [sourced from somewhere such as https://web.archive.org/web/20210128162033/https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2016142/posts which is completely without any references or evidence]), you're an obstacle to anyone who isn't already a committed Christian becoming one.
     
     See for example https://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1735809,00.html [content time com]
     
     > Wright's journey to black liberation theology lay through civil rights turmoil and debates about racial identity. He grew up in Philadelphia, the son and grandson of preachers. He enrolled at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, for the first time he saw Christians "who professed faith in Jesus Christ and who believed in segregation, and saw nothing wrong with lynching, saw nothing wrong with Negroes staying in their place," he told Bill Moyers in a PBS interview last week. That experience moved him to leave college for a six-year military tour — first with the Marines, then the Navy. Eventually, he arrived at the University of Chicago's Divinity School.
     
     One needn't agree with his theology to admit that he is not and never was a Muslim.
     
     > would you call S Africa a christian nation?
     
     There are lots of ways to measure that, but I don't have those figures at hand and don't want to look them up. Thus, I don't have an answer for you.
     
     What I do have is one acquaintance who lives there that is frequently talking about how messed up the place seems to him. That has little to do with their national religion and much to do with mismanagement of the power system, the water system, and so on.
     
     > [You compare] Black liberation theology to an invisible white supremacy.
     
     If you can't read a newspaper or a recent history book, don't blame me if you don't know what is happening around you. Surely you've heard of groups like "Christian Identity". Don't you think they are White supremacists?
     
     I said:
     
     > I'm sure "Black Nationalist Liberation" theology is popular within some segments of the Black Church, just as "White Supremacist" theology is popular within some segments of the White Church. I disagree with both, but BNLT at least arose in response to persecution, not (as with WST) imagined loss of privileges.
     
     And it triggered you into spewing the falsehoods addressed above.
     
     > ive been reading of what Wright is for over 15 years and YES, HE IS A CONVERTED MUSLIM WHO HATES JEWS!! its well documented and would be found if google and youtube would not have eliminated - OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS
     
     I am not defending Jeremiah Wright's doctrine. I am telling you that claiming he is or ever was Muslim does not fit with the evidence. If "well documented" is stuff like the Free Republic article above, then the claim isn't documented at all. And don't blame lack of evidence on Google. I also seached using Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave ... funny thing. All found evidence that Wright grew up in some form of Christianity, and that his interest was renewed during or after his military service. None found any shred of becoming a Muslim, not even temporarily.
     
     Free Republic says:
     
     > Why should Reverend Wright’s past as Muslim concern us?
     
     > First, Reverend Wright’s hate sermons are virtually identical as those given by his good friend, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who followed in the footsteps of Malcolm X.
     
     But that's easy to understand without imaginary conversions. They were both talking to people who'd experienced hardships because of their ancestry. He could ignore it, and let a different religion gain adherents because he wasn't saying anything relevant to people's lives, or he could tackle it head-on.
     
     Anyway, I think I'm going to block 'Rich' and let him spew out all the racism and hatred he wants, just not in my sight.