Posted on 02/07/2015 3:43:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Last week, President Barack Obama chose to equate Christianity and Islam. In doing so, he suggested people needed to get off their "high horse" because many things had been done in the name of Christianity. He listed slavery and the crusades to name two.
I would feel better about listening to the honest exegesis of the American resident on matters of faith if I were convinced he had faith in anything other than himself. He sat in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years. But Rev. Wright is a preacher of black liberation theology, far removed from mainstream Christian discourse. Since then, the president has eschewed any regular faith practices.
Having mocked Christians in 2008 as bitterly clinging to guns and religion, no one should be surprised he got his history wrong. What is more troubling, however, is how he got his history wrong. The Crusades, that he blamed on Christians, were actually a response to the Islamic invasion of the Holy Land and brutal persecutions of Christians.
Neither slavery nor Jim Crow laws would have been ended but for the voices of Christians. Famously, William Wilberforce, a member of the British Parliament, dedicated his life to ending slavery. Wilberforce had considered withdrawing from Parliament because of his devout faith, but his friend Prime Minister William Pitt persuaded him otherwise. Pitt wrote to Wilberforce, "If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself from them all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not only to meditation but to action."
Wilberforce's faith and effort gave rise to other Christians whose moral effort liberated slaves. In the era of Jim Crow, it was Christians, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who gave moral voice again to the eradication of Jim Crow.
The most troubling aspect of the moral equivalence President Obama tried to draw in his speech last Thursday was that Christians cannot look at the disturbance in the Middle East and make valued judgments based on the faith of the Islamic radicals.
Having grown up in Dubai between the ages of 5 and 15, I have many Muslim friends, all of whom look on ISIS with distain. But none of them claim ISIS is not practicing Islam. It is just a variant of Islam. Unfortunately, it is a rapidly growing part of Islam. Islam itself means "submission," and our president goes to great lengths to avoid pointing that out.
The worst thing about President Obama's statement, however, is the moral equivalence. It keeps him and those like him from seeing what confronts us even as they refuse to confront it. Television networks were aghast at Fox News's decision to show video of ISIS burning alive the Jordanian pilot. The other networks claimed this was a public relations victory for ISIS in that it wanted everyone to see what it was capable of.
But these are the same networks that were too scared to show the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. Only Fox News would show those cartoons. The networks claimed they did not want to offend anyone, but they are perfectly happy to show images offensive to Christians. There is a double standard at play subsidizing evil.
The president and intellectual leaders in the United States are not people of faith. They reject deity, having constructed gods of their own from government or self-interest. Morals are passe, faith is mythology and everybody is ultimately the same. These people cannot give moral clarity to the causes of the day because it would require them to take a moral stand, which they are not capable of doing.
When in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama was the only senator to speak in opposition to legislation that would require life-saving treatment for a child born alive after an abortion. Our president took the position that a child, born alive, could still be killed. He is, perhaps, the last person we should let lecture any of us about faith, considering the only faith he seems to possess is in himself.
Over the past hundred years...which religious doctrine still cites the virtues and necessity of slave usage?
Hint: Islam.
When has Islam ever wrote slavery out of the Quran? Never. Nor can the Quran be edited (ask them, they admit nothing can be fixed, solved, or changed from the document). And there in itself, is the entire problem itself.....a religion which cannot be modified or transformed.
This is a thoughtful and accurate opinion piece.
obola seems to occasionally drift out on his own and it's always a less than intelligent usage of English ... I mean, ... to get all wee-wee'd up about something just seems like a potty humor mentality ... like one that smeared feces on the wall during childhood
I haven’t studied the Quran, nor do I care to, but my understanding is the older versions are different than the newer ones. If true, somebody has edited something in it.
It all fell into place for me after I read the book “Islam and the Jews” by Mark Gabriel.
He was a Muslim and became a Christian.
He takes you all the way back to the first hatred of Islam for the Jews.
Not a very long book, but you understand what is going on with open eyes.
The everyday pap we hear from the media and lawmakers totally misses the reality.
I found it interesting that Obama secured Bo Bergdahl's release and of course had Bo's family speak-- showing that they had fully submitted to Islam. As far as I know they were still sweet talking Islam even after Bo was released.
actually the ignorant jacka$$ mixed his metaphors and exhorted Christians to get ON their high horse
and so we should
Jim Crow was a Democrat, a yellow dog Democrat.
Odumba$$ is a total LIAR.
In Shariah Law (ie Islamic Law), dhimmis are not allowed to ride horses, as this would literally put them above a Muslim. Forbidden, off with their heads.
bttt
The only edit to the document came around 1,000 years ago. Some guy made the decision to break the whole thing up into one unclear passage document, where the longer of sentences are at the front, and the shorter of sentences are at the rear. No rhyme or reason, other than it takes some religious instructor to take each theme and set it to the right moment of Muhammad’s life. It’d be like a transmission repair manual....taken apart with long directions at front and short at the rear...you’d never be able to clearly define the right steps unless you had some certified transmission guy standing there to take you through each step.
And I should note...sixty-percent of the Quran has nothing to do with Islam members...it’s directions on how to handle non-Islam folks. That should make you kinda wonder what the document’s value would be if someone just edited out everything that was about non-Muslims.
Something like Moloch.
Those were not auspicious days for the American Experiment, perhaps better not alluded to as a poster slogan.
If you want to discuss the issue, lay it all out.
The antecedent was Obama’s ignorant comment attributing Jim Crow to Christianity. To paraphrase the great man himself, don’t bring a chess board to a spitball fight.
As far as Jim Crow is concerned ( I didn't bring it up), that is a whole other story.
'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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