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        THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK LIBERAL THEOLOGY
            by Dr. Robert A. Morey


 All racist theologies have the same basic core ideas and methodology. Thus it
does not really matter if we are talking about the KKK, the Nation of Islam or
Black liberal theology, their focus is always on skin and not sin; race and not
grace; gossip and not gospel. Racism is always focused on the outward instead
of the inward because it cannot deal with the root problem of sin. Hatred and
violence feed on bitterness and racist rage. Class envy does not help anyone in
this life or in the next. Blaming others for one's own sin and guilt will not
solve the problem. We must take responsibility for what we do in life instead
of  blaming "the man" for our failures and woe. This is why we need to break
the shackle of black liberal theology which enslave the black man and keeps
him poor and angry. May God use this study to liberate black men and women from
the lie of black liberal theology.

 I am aware that while the vast majority of Black Liberal Theologians are
clearly guilty of believing in white liberalism and Neo-Marxist liberation
theology, there are a few "conservative" writers who have fallen for some of
their lies. Thus they will complain that not everything stated in this article
applies to them. But as with any other movement, we must deal with the majority
view and not with those few who are out of step with that majority.

I. The "Roots" of Black Liberal Theology.

 "Black liberal theology" (from now on shortened to the initials "BT")
is another name for Western Liberation Theology which was created by white,
middle-class, European, Marxist, liberal theologians to foster social change
by manipulating the lower classes to violent revolution against democratic
governments in order to establish a communist state. Thus BT did not originate
in Africa but in Europe.
 The fundamental ideas of BT did not come from black thinkers but from such
white European thinkers as Hegel, Darwin, Marx, etc. It is Euro-centric in its
ideology although it is Euro-phobic in its rhetoric. Black liberal theologians
are in reality "Uncle Toms" still licking the boots of their white, Marxist
masters at such bastions of white liberalism as Princeton, Yale, Harvard, etc..
They are the slaves of Karl Marx.

II. The Goals Of Black Liberal Theology

 The goals of BT are to turn religion into sociology, Christianity into a
political agenda, Jesus into a black Marxist rebel, and the gospel into violent
revolution. They are more interested in politics than preaching the gospel.

III. The Methodology of Black Liberal Theology

 The main method employed by BT is to manipulate embittered young blacks by
turning their feelings of inferiority, alienation, jealousy, hopelessness and
self-hate, into racist rage against whites, Orientals and affluent blacks who
are conveniently blamed for their lack of personal initiative to better their
lot in life.

IV. The Main Philosophic Error of Black Liberal Theology

 BT is based upon the philosophic error of relativism in which "Jesus" is
viewed as only a religious symbol which can be interpreted anyway they want.
Thus it does not matter who and what the historical Jesus really was. BT
invented a black Marxist Jesus to lead the way to violent revolution because
such a "Jesus" will serve their purpose. BT is condemned in II Cor. 11:4 and
Gal. 1:8-9.

V. The Racism Of Black Liberal Theology

 While BT is filled with racist statements against whites and Orientals, it is
primarily a form of "black on black" racism. The following evidence demonstrates
this to be true.

 A. While BT claims to give blacks a better self-image, they unwittingly
    encourage  a poor self-image among blacks by defining "blackness" in such
    negative terms as "the poor," "the oppressed," and "niggers." Why do they
    always define the "black experience" in such negative terms? Why do they
    assume that all blacks live in the ghetto subsisting on welfare in the
    midst of crime and filth?

 B. With its constant emphasis on God loves the poor, the oppressed, etc.
    BT actually paralyzes and demoralizes blacks to accept a parasitic life-
    style dependent on the government dole instead of fostering self-reliance
    and entrepreneurship.

 C. It seems to me that BT feeds off of class envy and racist rage. Instead of
    spending their time blaming the white man for the black man's problems, BT
    ought to be encouraging black men or women to become financially successful
    through hard work and self-reliance.

 D. BT often describes the black man as a helpless victim of forces and people
    beyond his control. But this negative stereotype often leads people to
    accept poverty, drugs, crime and filth as their unalterable fate.

 E. BT makes a great mistake when it assumes that poverty automatically means
    crime and filth. Just because you are poor does not mean you have a
    license to rob, rape, or murder others. The poor are for the most part
    good and honest people. Crime is crime regardless of who commits it.
    Poverty is no excuse for criminality.

 F. BT judges people on the basis of the color of their skin instead of the
    content of their character.

 G. BT gives the impression that the black man's problem is his skin instead
    of his sin.

 H. Most BT books glorify rage, hatred and violence instead of faith, hope and
    love.

 I. BT preaches race instead of grace as the solution to problems.

 J. BT cries out for political liberation instead of spiritual salvation.

 K. BT thinks more of Marx than it does of Jesus.

 L. BT is more interested in black culture than in Jesus Christ.

VI. The Liberalism Of Black Liberal Theology

 BT is not a fundamental, Bible-believing, Christ-honoring theology. BT was
created by white liberation theologians at white liberal seminaries and
universities that are radically anti-Christian and anti-Bible.

 A. Most of those involved in BT do not believe in the Trinity, the deity of
Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, bodily resurrection,
literal ascension or return to this world. They claim that all such doctrines
are "Western."

 B. Many of those who teach BT openly deny the immortality of the soul, a
conscious after-life in heaven or hell, the resurrection of the dead, the Last
Judgment and the eternal conscious torment of the damned in hell. They usually
say that hell is "being black on welfare in the ghetto."  They attack those
blacks who talk about heaven as a "pie in the sky by and by slave mentality."

 C. BT often denounces Christianity as racist and the "white man's religion."
But then it turns around and claims that Jesus was black. If Jesus  was a black
man, then how can Christianity be the "white man's religion?"

 D. Most BT writers deny the inspiration, inerrancy and authority of the Bible
while at the same time using it to foster their racist agenda.

 E. Many BT leaders teach the theory of evolution in which man evolved from an
ape in Africa as if that theory can give dignity to blacks or to anyone else.
The theory of evolution actually destroys all dignity and morals by reducing
man to an animal.

VII. The Absurdity of Black Liberal Theology

 BT is so filled with self-contradiction and erroneous ideas that it is has no
intellectual merit. For example, BT defines "blackness" and "whiteness" in the
Marxist sense of class struggle. Thus BT is not really talking about blackness
as a race but as a class. WAKE UP! Read that last sentence again. Did you get
it?  Black liberal theology is really concerned with class struggle and not
about black people per se. What is "black" and "white" according to the BT
books?

    Black = anyone regardless of race or color who is economically and
                politically oppressed by the upper classes.

    White = anyone regardless of race or color who is guilty of oppressing
                the lower classes.

 Walter McCray in his book, The Black Presence In The Bible, quotes with
approval the definition of blackness given by his liberal mentor,  Charles
Copher.

     Additionally, one may be defined as black  regardless of color or race;
     all who suffer oppression...are classified as black.(p. 161, n.72.)

 This irrational definition ends up with some white people being "black" and
some black people being "white." According to BT's definition, a blond, blue-
eyed, white Swede on drugs and welfare is "black" while the successful black
man who owns his own company is "white."  Other absurdities abound in their
writings.

 A. BT claims that Adam and Eve were black. If this is true, then all men
    are "black" because they came from the first black parents. On what grounds
    then does BT divide up mankind into black vs white and black vs yellow?
    Aren't we all "black" having come from the same original black DNA?

 B. BT claims that Noah, his wife and their three sons and wives were all
    blacks. Yet, they also claim that the blacks descended from Ham. And they
    run through the Bible looking for Hamite references to track the history
    of the black race. How can this obvious contradiction be resolved ?

 C. As part of its Marxist ideology, BT believes that history is as relative
    as morals. Thus BT rewrites history to foster its own socio-political goals.
    This is why BT does not hesitate to teach lies and to practice academic
    chicanery.  The "truth" is not their concern. To manipulate young blacks
    into racist rage is always their real goal.

 D. BT claims that nearly every individual and nation mentioned in the Bible
    was black. They do not prove that this true. They simply asset that this is
    so. Anyone who disagrees with them is labeled a racist.

 E. BT claims that the ancient Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians
    were all black. Yet, they were the cruelest oppressors known in history.
    For example, the Assyrians enslaved and deported entire populations. Mass
    murder was their favorite means of oppression. How can they be "black"
    when they were worse oppressors than Hitler or Stalin?

 F. BT claims that the ancient Egyptians were black and that the Jews were
    black as well. But since the Egyptians were a very oppressive society which
    enslaved the Jews and other minorities and conquered many surrounding
    nations, how can the Egyptians be "black" and oppress people at the same
    time?

 G.  BT just like the KKK and other racist groups claims that its race is the
     sole source of all that is good in all cultures. But this is a two edged
     sword. If  the blacks are responsible for all the good in the world, then
     they are equally responsible for all the evil. To claim that the black
     man can do no wrong and that the white man and yellow man can do no good,
     is absurd as well as racist.

 H. BT claims that the ancient Greeks were black and thus Greek philosophy was
    created by blacks. But then BT also says that the white Greeks stole their
    philosophy from African blacks. How can the Greeks be black and white at
    the same time?  But if they were all blacks, then what is wrong with blacks
    sharing ideas?

 I.  BT claims that the Greeks stole their ideas from black Africans and thus
     all the good in Western culture comes from blacks. But if this is true,
     how can BT condemn Western culture on one hand and then claim that it came
     from blacks on the other hand?

 J. BT also claims that all the good in Oriental culture came from African
    blacks. The Orientals thus stole their culture from the blacks. But if this
    is true, why are African motifs missing in Oriental philosophies and art?

 K. BT authors claim that the Egyptian word Kemet means "the land of the
    Blacks." In reality, the word actually means "the black land" referring to
    the dark soil along the flood plain of the Nile. It is used in Egyptian
    literature in opposition to the word Deshret which literally means "the red
    land," a reference to the color of the dirt or sand in the desert.

VIII. Black Liberal Theology Contradicts The Bible

 In order to make everyone in the Bible black, BT takes passages out of context,
ignores the grammar of Hebrew and Greek, and then attacks anyone who disagrees
with them as "racist" or "white." But BT violates several clear Scriptures.

    1. Acts 17:26 "He made from one all the nations of mankind
    to live on all the face of the earth."

 The Bible teaches that there is only one race --the human race-- regardless
of size, shape or color. Thus there is no "black" or "white" blood. There is
only human blood which can be transfused from one man to the next regardless
of color or race. BT con-tradicts this by talking about "black blood."

    2. Rom. 2:11 "There is no partiality with God."

 God does not treat people any differently because they are red, yellow, black
or white. They are all precious in His sight. But BT claims that God is partial
to blacks! This is just as wrong as the Nazis who claimed the same thing for
the Ayrian race or the KKK who claims the same for the white race.

    3. Gal. 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
    neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor
    female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

 BT divides the Church into different economic classes and pits them against
each other. Thus they try to put asunder what God has joined together. The
Body of Christ is one.

    4. Eph. 4:4-5:2 "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger
    and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with
    all malice. And be kind to one another, tender-hearted,
    forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has
    forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved
    children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you,
    and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to
    God as a fragrant aroma."

 BT preaches bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, slander and that blacks should
seek revenge instead of taking the path of forgiveness.

    5. 1 Sam 16:7 "But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at
    his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have
    rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at
    the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

 BT looks only at the outward appearance. This is wrong. We must judge people
not by their color but by their moral character or lack of it.

                Conclusion

 Black liberal theology is not of God but of the devil. It is nothing more
than "white liberal religion" and is used by white theologians and politicians
to keep blacks down in order to use them as cannon fodder for a Marxist
revolution. Black liberal theologians slave for their white Marxist masters to
bring about a violent revolution that would guarantee that all men, blacks
included, would always be poor and oppressed.
 The only answer to liberal theology, regardless of the color of those who
teach it, is personal salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. Once you have
experienced the love of God in Christ, you do not have any room in you heart
for the self-hate and racist rage upon which BT feeds.
 The black community needs a revival-- not a revolution; Jesus--not Marx;
Christianity --not liberalism. Jesus is the only One who can change the hearts
of all men and set them free from their bondage to sin.

Copyright 1994 Research & Education Foundation (REF)