Posted on 02/06/2015 3:17:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MSNBC's resident socialist Lawrence O'Donnell made a whopper of a historical claim on the Thursday edition of his program. In the midst of ripping President Obama's controversial National Prayer Breakfast speech from earlier in the day, O'Donnell asserted that "Catholicism was the most murderous force on the face of the Earth for hundreds of years," as he ripped President Obama's controversial National Prayer Breakfast speech from earlier in the day. [video below]
The left-wing host led the segment by mocking the breakfast as "the place where presidents go to pander to leaders of organized religions once a year." He continued by slamming the Democrat's address:
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: If you ever want to search for the worst speeches given by a modern president, begin with the National Prayer Breakfast – the first of which was attended by President Eisenhower in 1953. President Obama, who is the most gifted writer and speaker in the history of the American presidency, today delivered the worst speech of his presidency. It was full of hollow pandering from start to finish, as politicians' speeches to religious groups always are.
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O'Donnell then turned to two secularized Muslims – author Zainab Salbi and former Wall Street Journal journalist Asra Nomani – as well as atheist University of Chicago professor, Jerry Coyne, for their take on the President's speech. After making his beyond outlandish statement about Catholicism, the host further criticized the politician by underlining that "the President seems to be saying that he knows what real Islam is. He knows that there is such a thing as real Islam...and that he can tell you what it is. And that is a frequent mistake that people who have not been very highly educated in religion make – thinking that there is an identifiable, real version of any religion."
The MSNBC anchor continued this line of argument moments later as he turned to Professor Coyne:
O'DONNELL: Professor Coyne, within every religion, there are arguments about what the proper tenets of a religion should be. Most Catholics, as you know, in the United States of America support abortion rights, and support that as an individual choice made by women, whether they be Catholic or not. The Pope says that is absolutely wrong, and that teaching is rejected worldwide by Catholics, and it's accepted worldwide by Catholics. And there are many other arguments within Catholicism. You used to be excommunicated if you got a divorce in Catholicism. Now, Catholicism finds ways of fixing that for people.
Religions move; they change. They have different sects – different dynamics. I would love to hear the President describe to us what true Judaism is. Is it Orthodox Judaism, or is it one of those temples where they have a female rabbi? This is just an amazing mistake that the President's speechwriters, and the President could make today – the notion that this president or anyone can specifically tell us what is real Islam or the real version of any other religion. We're going to have – we even have disagreements with two followers of Islam right here on this show about what is real Islam.
The atheist guest, who once blasted the Catholic Church for its "medieval morality" of condemning abortion, answer by repeating one of his points from a September 2014 piece from the New Republic – that ISIS's practice of Islam is as "true" as the supposed practice of Christianity by the Inquisition and the atrocities by the Israelites in the Old Testament:
JERRY COYNE, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: Yeah, absolutely – and you are absolutely right with this. This is no true version of Islam that you can put your finger on. If you want to be legalistic about it, you can say well, it's – the true religions are what's in the scripture. And, in that case, Christianity – even though you have to reach back to find committing things like the Inquisition, even Christianity has an Old Testament that explicitly sanctions and approves of terrorism; of terrorism of innocents; of adultery; of rape; of genocide. How do Christians write that off as not being true Christianity when it's in the Old Testament – black and white?... -
The problem with saying that there is a true faith and that the true Islam has been hijacked by ISIS is not true. What's happened with Christianity is it's become tamer over the centuries, because it was hijacked by the Enlightenment values – the secular Enlightenment values that have gotten rid of all those horrible statements in the Old Testament. That's what needs to happen to Islam. It needs to be hijacked by Enlightenment values. No, in fact, ISIS has not hijacked Islam at all.
Professor Coyne made the same point earlier in the segment as the guests made their initial reactions to the President's speech:
ZAINAB SALBI, WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTL.: I wouldn't call it a (sic) worst speech at all. I would call it a measured one; a thoughtful one; and someone – a speech that knows what Islam is going through – an identity crisis; a historical moment in its implosion within itself. And all religion has gone through this, and this is now Islam's time, and there's a lot of work to do be done. But I would call it a wise speech, as a matter of fact.
O'DONNELL: Asra, what was your reaction to it?
ASRA NOMANI, JOURNALIST: It really breaks my heart to hear the words that President Obama said today. You know, with all due respect, I think that it's President Obama that needs to get off the high horse, and he needs to put his feet, plant – and plant them firmly on the ground, and acknowledge that there is a very serious interpretation of Islam in the world that is wreaking havoc on all of us. And we have to take it on, and be honest about what the problem is in our world today.
O'DONNELL: Professor Coyne, your reaction?
JERRY COYNE, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: I agree with the last speaker. Obama is slowly coming around to the realization that it isn't just terrorism involved here, but it's motivated by religion. He continues to say that faith does not justify the massacre of innocents, when, in fact, the Bible says exactly that in the Old Testament; and the Islamic faith – at least, this particular Sunni sect, says that. When he finally admits that this is a religiously-motivated horror, then I'll approve of what he says.
Protect against theater-shooter types? Is it a bad thing to be armed at church?
More recently, socialism/communism, o’donnell’s religion of choice, has been responsible in the last century alone, for over 100 million murders. So, implicitly, o’donnell prefers to kill now while thinking in the past. Makes sense for him.
An intellectual blackhole.
Yes, all ten of his viewers agree...
Isn’t it amazing how much time these guys spend trying to damn Christianity, when they won’t spend fifteen seconds just focusing on what Islam is.
And if you add all the humans who have died in utero in that same time you could probably triple that number or even quadruple it.
I’ve got a feeling that O’Donnell failed both History and Sanity classes in college, and high school, and even in Elementary School.
Just a feeling, as in singing “I’ve Got a Feeling” that he’s crazy as batcrap on a hot day.
Pretty obvious that Larry never heard of Timur or Tamerlan, a Muslim warlord who killed over 5% of the entire world's population during his conquests. And he spent most of his time confined in central Asia, the Mideast and China.
The world has not seen anything like ISIS since Timur, and that even includes Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.
PLEASE look at the linked video
The Halfrican has insulted Jesus Christ and all Christians.
It is absolutely INSANE (but predictable due to Universal Suffrage) that this EVIL FOREIGNER is President.
FLASHBACK: KENYA 2006 - Welcome Home Senator Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCxCg6Y5w6Q
This is mind blowing and clear evidence to anyone with an ounce of brain matter that this son of a bitch is NO AMERICAN.
Undoing the damage wrought by this fiend might take decades, unless the RIGHT gets serious about dismantling the marxist machine and ramming into place policies that ensure no communist is ever elected to any Federal or State office EVER again.
Godless abortionists have killed millions far more than the Catholic Church ever did.
the days of playing Cowboys and goathumpers is fast approaching
Anti-Catholics can go bleep themselves!
For Christ’s sake AND I SAY THAT LITERALLY don’t you have bigger fish to fry!!?
How many victims of Catholic beheadings lately? Name, date, time & place, please.
Dominus vobiscum, y’all!
Nearly 1,300 people have been executed in the state of Texas since they began executing criminals.
Same difference.
“The most gifted writer and speaker in the history of the American Presidency”
WTF??? It’s easy for him to get his orders from Obama -his head is up the Kenyan’s ass!!!
******
Does anyone still watch MSNBC? Does anyone take hosts on MSNBC seriously? I don't.
Bigots will be bigots.
Youtube.com ^ | 2/6/15 | The Indicrat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkPmeF3fSY
Excellent Speech. Brother Rachid addresses President Obama about ISIL and Islam; he explains to him how ISIL is imitating the prophet Muhammad in every detail they do. ISIL represents Islam.
As Krauthammer said, Obama was Banal and repulsive
Obama was simply trying to dismiss the barbarism that we saw with the immolation of the Jordanian pilot, and to make everybody believe that this is really nothing out of the ordinary, Krauthammer said. “I mean, here, and the bad, this is a combination of the banal and the repulsive. The banal is the adolescent who discovers that well, man is fallen, and many religions have abused their faith and used it as a weapon. This is what you discover when you’re 12, or 17, and what you discuss in the Columbia dorm room. He’s now bringing it to the world as a kind of a revelation, and he does it two days after the world is still in shock by the video of the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot as a way of saying hey, what about Joan of Arc? I mean, this is so distasteful.”
HUCKABEE: OBAMA HAS 'UNDYING' SUPPORT FOR MUSLIMS
'Everything he does is against what Christians stand for'
2/9/2015
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/huckabee-obama-has-undying-support-for-muslims/?cat_orig=politics
(POLITICO) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called President Barack Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast — in which Obama brought up Christians’ misdeeds during the Crusades — “nothing short of shocking” and accused the president on Monday of coddling the Muslim community.
“Everything he does is against what Christians stand for, and he’s against the Jews in Israel,” Huckabee said on “Fox and Friends.” “The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community.”
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