Posted on 02/05/2015 10:06:24 AM PST by cleghornboy
President Barack Obama assures us that, "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
Militant atheists are fond of reminding us that there have been people who committed acts of violence "in the name of religion." And of course this is true. But the Church always condemned such abuses in her teaching.
But what Barack Obama doesn't mention (and this should come as no surprise, counterfeit Christian that he is), is that far more violence has been committed under the banner of atheism. See here. As historian Paul Johnson put it, "Certainly, mankind without Christianity conjures up a dismal prospect. The record of mankind with Christianity is daunting enough....The dynamism it has unleashed has brought masacre and torture, intolerance and destructive pride on a huge scale, for there is a cruel and pitiless nature in man which is sometimes impervious to Christian restraints and encouragements. But without these restraints, bereft of these encouragements, how much more horrific the history of these last 2,000 years must have been!....In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world, and it is not encouraging." (A History of Christianity, p. 517).
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We just witnessed an entire regiment of ISIS soldiers standing together in unity while burning to death a Jordanian air pilot, while alive, and broadcasting the horrific images all over the airwaves to further humiliate the victim, his family and his country.
Can Obama cite one example of a Christian doing anything remotely similar this year? Last year? In the last 5-10 years? How about the last 20 years? I’m not talking about the actions of a few nut cases, but of an entire group of Christians acting in unity?
Yes, there will always be historical atrocities if you go back far enough, but let’s compare apples with apples. Let’s compare the action of Christians today with the actions of Muslims today.
You can’t.
And Jim Crow was done in the Democratically controlled south, in opposition to the Republican north.
Obviously a case of obsessively help the other side disorder.
Like the islamists he calls brothers, this creep is living 10 or 12 centuries in the past.
“We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends,” Obama said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast.
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What part of this above statement makes the reference to OUR religion not mean obamas religion and ISIS religion ?
Yeh boy those Christians are bring down airliners, beheading women and children, burning people alive. Its a travesty.
[whiny teenager voice]
“see, Christians did bad stuff, so shut up about Islam!”
[/whiny teenager voice]
He does indeed look EVIL. He also looks sickly.
It was horrible what he did. Ruined the event on many levels.
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