I think anyone who has been paying attention to Oprah Winfrey’s ’shift’ into the New Age gospel/delusion knows why she might have left the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church (who of course is now Sen. Barack Obama’s ex-pastor). Anyway this article in Newsweek magazine attempts to dissect why two high profile people who were members of this embattled preacher’s church (which follows Black Liberation Theology) reacted differently to the heated sermons of their pastor. Obama chose to stay, Winfrey chose to leave. Newsweek talks to mystery sources in Oprah’s camp who say the daytime talk show diva was not only conscious of her show’s audience and her own marketability:

But Winfrey also had spiritual reasons for the parting. In conversations at the time with a former business associate, who also asked for anonymity, Winfrey cited her fatigue with organized religion and a desire to be involved with a more inclusive ministry. In time, she found one: her own. “There is the Church of Oprah now,” said her longtime friend, with a laugh. “She has her own following.”

This “inclusive ministry” Winfrey was longing for could have just be referring to the strange race-based theology of the church or it could have been also all that talk about Jesus Christ being the only way to salvation.

(Read the rest at Newsweek…)

And in this video, Oprah explains why she left the Church.

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