Posted on 02/07/2015 4:34:31 AM PST by Kaslin
"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
These words from the President of the United States, during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, have caused an uproar in religious circles -- and rightly so -- in spite of the administration's attempts to downplay the nature of his words.
You don't have to be a longtime critic of the president to see that his deflecting attention away from modern-day evil during a rare occasion to focus on it was a missed opportunity. One that continues our cultural avoidance of tough questions about faith and reason, a public conversation that typically gets shut down -- often with threats and/or violence -- when it centers on Islam.
Besides the Crusades, President Obama mentioned slavery as something that was often justified in the name of Christ, which did a disservice to the abolitionists who were men and women of faith.
The president's words were also a slap in the face to Christians in the Middle East -- including those displaced from Iraq and Syria on account of the Islamic State's attempts to eradicate their existence in that part of the world.
People being killed for blasphemy and Christians being killed for refusing to renounce their faith is not a thing of the past, which is why the president's loaded history lesson wasn't the best use of his platform.
But President Obama's most controversial comments at the prayer breakfast weren't his most alarming. During that same speech, he said: "No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives, or the oppression of those who are weaker or fewer in number." As the president said this and directed those listening to "Put on love," I couldn't help but hear the echoes of Mother Teresa's speech at a 1994 prayer breakfast: "Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."
This is why we can't see clearly. Our national conscience is too clouded, too complicit, too bogged down by false claims of love and choice and freedom.
President Obama also stressed the importance of humility, which he curiously linked to a "suspicion of government getting between us and our faiths, or trying to dictate our faiths, or elevate one faith over another."
We're a country that uses God's name in many ways, but also increasingly privatizes the practice of religion, shunts it off to the side and keeps it cordoned off from the public sphere that so needs its influence. The Hobby Lobby health care case before the Supreme Court last summer was about the Obama administration insisting that religious liberty doesn't extent to people pursuing commercial activity and providing jobs. It's a posture that religious believers have contributed to, and are now falling victim to. As the president vowed to defend religious liberty, portraying the United States as its beacon, his call to humility underlined the need for self-reflection, as his own administration continues to keep religious believers heading to court.
Humility is needed to see the damage ideology does when it clouds what's right in front of us, making it impossible to see clearly what's happening a world away. Humility is needed to see that humility itself has become its own religion, mandating compliance with a tyrannical impulse.
Under the undocumented Islamic Obola, King of the
US Congress, America is hated by the Free,
beloved by Islamist murderers, rapists, and beheaders.
What could go wrong?
Now what's he doing? Arming radical Muslims so they can cling to their Korans and guns? Justifying terror?
It's past time. Stop regime change. Stop arming revolutionaries who promise to friend us. Acknowledge that Saudi Arabia is a terrorist state.
Unfortunately, the DC crowd is still looking at it all in terms of what's in it for them. I hope this prayer-breakfast is the final straw where the power elite wake up and realize civilization is on the way out if things don't change.
So where is the "abolition" movement within Islam to purge it of terror? It's not enough to say, "the terrorist are not demonstrating true Islam, so don't blame us." What would McDonalds do if a franchise began selling poison hamburgers?. . .would it be enough for them to just say, "they aren't the true McDonalds?". ..HELL NO!. . .They would realize that their brand was being severely damaged by that renegade evil franchise and that it was incumbent upon THEM to SHUT THEM DOWN.
We see little or no such action within Islam. . .only the wringing of hands, the pointing of fingers and the empty platitudes about religious freedom (for them. .and no one else).
Norway Islamic Leader: ‘Every Muslim’ Wants ‘Death Penalty for Homosexuals’
Liberals seem to be okay with this. I don’t see any of them condemning it.
President Strawman.
Acts 4:
10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
One question for Obama: Do you believe the above, to be true? If not, you should quit telling people that you are a Christian.
Same question to all the Joel Osteens of the world.
“Obama just doesn’t understand religion in general and Christianity specifically. Yes, there were practicing Christians who condoned slavery. . .but there was also the Abolition Movement that brought slavery to end that was inspired by Christian faith.”
Not to condone slavery; but slavery was a world wide practice, starting with the beginning of civilization up till the late twentieth century. I believe Brazile was the last country in the Americas to make it illegal about 1889. However, slavery is still rampant in Africa and the Middle East today, especially in Muslim countries. A good read on this is “The Fortunes of Africa” by Martin Merideth. It’s a bit lengthy and at times gets tedious which is where I would skim for awhile. But, the book is an eye opener and very informative if you can hang in there.
“Obama’s Religious Hypocrisy (and Ignorance)”
How dare they insult the most merciful, the most brilliant, the most superior and compassionate being that has ever occupied the White House! How dare they!!!
/S/
IMHO
ISIS has forced Odumba$$ out of his muslim/arab closet.
Okay, in case you never hear this from Obama, here is what muslims say when we arent around, this is what they REALLY think, in their own words:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e9b_1421092375
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.”
But via the reformation Christianity was able to understand the real meaning and intent of Christianity.
Perhaps Mr. Obama can propose a new interpretation of Islam to ISIS that will start an Islamic reformation. (/s)
I keep hearing that “radical Islam” does not represent real Islam. I have not seen anyone site parts of the Koran that would condemn the actions of ISIS. All I really see is scripture that supports via Islam what ISIS does.
Obama says everyone should be humble, except himself of course.
Correction; “up till the late nineteenth century”. Disappointed that I wasn’t nailed on this, feeling hurt actually, lol :)
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