Nov
03
2009
I ALMOST Agree with James Cone
This is a video clip from Cone’s appearance at Tavis Smiley‘s State of the Black Union a few years back. I can agree with some of Cone’s critique of the predominantly African-American (and for that matter, American0 church, but notice the distortions. How many can you count in this 7-minute clip?
And it’s the stuff that he almost gets right that is the most poisonous and dangerous. Can anybody seriously maintain that this man, a professor of systematic theology, inadvertently misquoted Matthew 16:25 at the end of his comments? What he distorts is so critical to understanding everything that the misquote is sinister.