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Does that mean he can condemn "God damned America" in five languages?
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His lists of works doesn't seem to make him a New Testament scholar, but I could be missing something. He appears to be more of a "black" activist than a traditional theologian in the classical sense. Quote:
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So Obama's chief personal advisor for the past twenty years is a Marxist?! Great. Just what we need in the White House, an anti-American Marxist.
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A Div degree is more a professional degree, but these are the language reqs at this alma mater. http://divinity.uchicago.edu/degree/...shtml#language Here is mention of Wright's languages: http://cbs3.com/topstories/wright.bl....2.710109.html
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Liberation theology is really nothing more than using the pulpit to spew political hatred and get a congregation pissed off.
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What little I've read sounds more like politics than classical theology. He doesn't even sound like a counselor that many professional clergy become. No wonder Obama would be attracted to a Marxist politician instead of a true clergyman.
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I've read a bit of ancient Greek, but do I have any certifications a la Solon or Chapel Hill? Of course not, and so forth. To truly master and speak another language can require a lifetime of study and devotion. To master five can be done, if one stays within the Romance languages and adds a Germanic language. However, try mastering a Germanic, a couple of Romance, some Semitic languages, and some Asian languages and the brain goes almost haywire. Given the fact that Pastor Wright toured with wacko Louis and Ghadafi, one might imagine he's studied Arabic. In light of his Marxist tendencies, loathing of America, would you be surprised if he didn't study Arabic, Russian, Korean and some others? The Chicago Divinity School doesn't specify which languages are necessary for nonbiblical studies, only that Greek and Hebrew are required for studies of biblical studies.
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Your comment about Egyptian reminds me about the time I was introduced to an opera diva back in my school days. She claimed that she spoke 4 foreign languages - Italian, French, Spanish and German. So I started to speak Italian to her and she had a blank Homer Simpson stare on her face. When I asked her what the problem was, she said she had no idea what I was saying. I told her it was Italian and she then said that the only Italian she spoke was the Italian sung in operas. LOL! She was good at memorizing the Italian words to operas, but didn't speak it. Perhaps that's the good Reverend's idea of speaking a language?
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You have some gifted such as Solon or AA, or Babs, who can truly amaze you. On the other hand, I've met many a grad student who had "passed" their proficiency exam in German and in French, only to suck a hundred times worse than I. Needless to say I was unimpressed. Of course, too few enjoy linguistic acquisition and mastery. It's a process not something certified by high pass in proficiency. It's a labor of love. Sadly I don't believe I'll ever gain any mastery in any of them. Mastering grammar, syntax, accent, music, literature, delivery, cultural knowledge and appearance requires so much intensity, one would have little time for anything else. I remember listening to one missionary being jealous of his accent and Satzbetonung, only to be dazzled by another's vocabulary and yet another's knowledge of culture. IOW, I had little and everybody had a lot. I felt like Salieri, or whatever his name is or was.
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