clipped from www.henryinstitute.org

There is a liberation theology of the Left, of the kind of politicized movement we see right now in the newspapers and on our television screens. There is also a liberation theology of the Right, one represented by prosperity gospels and grinning consumer Christianity. Both are at heart Mammon worship. The liberation theology of the Left often wants a Barrabas, to fight off the oppressors as though our ultimate problem were the reign of Rome and not the reign of death. The liberation theology of the Right wants a golden calf, to represent religion and to remind us of all the economic security we had in Egypt. Both want a Caesar or a Pharaoh, not a Messiah.

The clips of Jeremiah Wright's pulpit pronouncements are tragic.

He's standing in the place of Jesus, but he's channeling Che Guevera. On the television dial next to him is a smiling, non-threatening preacher, also in the place of Jesus, but he's channeling Ayn Rand.