Posted on 11/20/2015 3:28:53 AM PST by markomalley
When Islamic terrorist attacks cause mass casualties, like the horrific events in Paris, it's all well and good to preach the obvious that ISIS killers don't represent all Muslims, any more than the Nazis represented all the German people. But what is wholly unacceptable is any attempt to drag Christianity into a moral-equivalency game with radical Islam.
The leftist comedians really should have stopped this gunk when Rosie O'Donnell announced on "The View" nine years ago that "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America" because the United States was at war in Iraq. (Rosie would never be able to define non-radical Christianity because in her warped world, that's an oxymoron.)
But it just keeps coming. South African import Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart's replacement on "The Daily Show," took Christianity back to 1478 for a whipping: "Islam is a religion. It's open for violent interpretation, and it's open for peaceful interpretation. Just like how Christianity can encompass both the Spanish Inquisition and the little old lady in church who keeps talking to you about cat's diabetes medicine. So, basically, torture either way."
Religion and violence was a pretty constant combination 500 years ago, but what relevance should that have in the 21st century? Liberals want to absolve all Muslims for yesterday's massacre by condemning all Christians for the 1500s? That, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a stretch.
Noah has forfeited any privilege to make ISIS comparisons after opening his "comedy" show on November 2 with this bizarre juxtaposition: "Our top story, ISIS. They are a lot like Donald Trump's presidential campaign."
How is Trump like a terrorist group that slaughters hundreds of innocents? Noah sloppily compared the two as nearly identical: "When it first showed up, we all thought, 'Eh. This probably won't last more than a month or so.' And yet, here we are, November of 2015 and both are as powerful as ever."
It's obvious now that the Left will continue to downplay the potential of Islamic terrorists as some "JV team" that can't shoot straight. Downright stupid, yes. But it's also offensive to think it's funny to compare a presidential candidate to someone who opens fire on a rock concert audience.
Here's another exercise in moral equivalency. Best-selling author Stephen King was hailed by the left for tweeting "Hating all Muslims for what happened in Paris is like hating all Christians because of the gay-hating Westboro Baptist Church." As usual, this cartoonish thought bubble starts with the assumption of prejudice, that most Americans immediately start "hating all Muslims" after a terrorist attack. Then it concludes by failing to notice that unlike ISIS and their ilk, the hate-filled Westboro contingent hasn't thrown homosexuals off tall buildings.
Then there are the feminists who love to make comparisons of Christianity and radical Islam by implying that Christians should be defined as abortion-clinic personnel killers. Late-term abortionist George Tiller was shot at his Lutheran church in 2009, and then you have to go back to Dr. Barnett Slepian being shot in his own home in 1998. How many tens of thousands have perished at the hands of Islamic radicals during that time frame?
Christians immediately condemned the killing of abortionists, evil as they are, as immoral. By contrast, polls show millions of Muslims have expressed support for ISIS, and many millions more approve of terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
This raises the eternal question about Western secular progressives: If they're so concerned about religion as a threat to public order, why do they do so much special pleading against the misunderstanding of Muslims both here and abroad?
Maybe there isn't a moral equivalence between Christianity and Islam. After all, secularists in the West seem more comfortable condemning Christianity, both its tenets and its followers, as the ultimate evil.
The NAZI’s were cheered to power by the masses. It is disingenuous to say that most Germans were not NAZI’s. They only changed their mind when it fell apart. They may not have been actual party members but support for the party was deep and broad.
The same is true of Islamic terrorist. Most rag-heads may not engage in it but at some level they support it
Come on, it’s only the amish with the laser rifles
Copied and pasted from something I read earlier. I will just leave it here. Not in my words but I agree 100%.
I’m getting very tired of being lectured and berated by some to do my “Christian duty” in regards to the Syrian refugees.
I’m told I have a “moral obligation” as a Christian to welcome the refugees here.
I find it quite humorous that now we are allowed to talk about God, what Jesus would do and how I’m supposed to act as a Christian when these very same people have so violently decried against anything Christian related in the past.
You want me to do my Christian duty, but you want me to keep my religion out of schools.
You want me to act accordingly as a Christian, but you condemn any public displays of Christianity.
You say the government has a moral obligation to accept refugees since we are a Christian nation, but you have vehemently clamored for separation of church and state, albeit erroneously.
I’m told I am a fake Christian now, when you have demanded I keep my faith to myself so I do not offend anyone.
You say Christian Americans do not view refugee children as a life worth saving and yet you ignore the lives that continue to let be killed by not only panned Parenthood, but also ignore the Yazidis and Assyrians that continue to be killed.
The only time you and your ilk want to talk about Christians and their duties is when you can milk it for political gains and when you try to guilt us into doing something.
Other than that, I’m told to keep my “mythical relationship with an imaginary being “ to myself.
It’s absolutely ironic that those who have clamored so violently for Christians to shut up and take a back seat, now want to use Christianity for their own nefarious purposes. ~ TLL
Bump! Right on!
Well copied & pasted! Agreed!
“It’s absolutely ironic that those who have clamored so violently for Christians to shut up and take a back seat, now want to use Christianity for their own nefarious purposes.”
How well said and how wonderful that what the leftist swine are doing is being verbalized and recognized.
IMHO
The Spanish Inquisition was part of a 500 year long effort to drive the Mobammedans out of Spain. Spanish authorities were trying to determine whether recent converts to Christianity were legit. Sound familiar?
An average of 10 people were executed per year, after fair, well-documented trials.
See “The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition,” a 1994 BBC special, available to watch for free on YouTube.
I hate the Westburo Democrat Lawyer Cult. Not for their stance against homosexuality (which is bizarre and may not even be genuine) but for their lack of any Christian message and their vitriolic hate of our troops.
It is a politically active Democrat organization (or at least its founder was, he ran twice for office and was buds with the Al Gores). I think their primary goal is to slur Christianity and the opposition to homosexuality.
As offensive as they are, I can’t recall them engaging in any terrorism.
Someone was in the marktplace for pro-Osama t-shirts, that’s for sure.
http://www.skylersrants.com/Blog/Rants/C20090212231626/E1161171517/index.html
misdirection. Muslims sites will compare themselves to the Irish Republic also.
But in their comparison, they NEVER disavow the terrorism done in the name of Islam. Nearest I can tell the Catholic church did disavow the Irish Republic. Watch the details folks, develop reading and thinking skills.
Nothing new. Leftists bitch all the time that Jesus would want you name it, socialized medicine, a death penalty ban, dismantling the military. “Jesus was a hippy, dude, pass the weed”.
One lib character on TV I recall, Detective Goran on “Law and Order: CI” remarked to another that he was ok with this person being pro-life because he was also doctrinaire pacifist socialist and therefore “consistent”. FU Dick Wolf.
This is very simple
And I have to write the sweet but sometimes dense Bolling on this, little good it will do I’m guessing.
Ok you can use this
Jesus Christ never tells anyone to murder anyone
Therefore anyone saying that they are murdering in the name of Jesus are lying
Likewise, anyone who is a murderer who says they are Christian - whether they used to be Christian or will repent and be Christian in the future- they are lying. They call themselves Christian but they are not Christian
Christianity is not, as much as people like to say it is, a culture. It is a following of the teachings of Christ. Literally
No comparison should be afraid
Anyone making a comparison must stick to the bible v the Koran Anyone making a comparison is usually ignorant of both
Anyone calling themselves catholic who has not read the catechism who does not own a catechism is not likely practicing Catholicism in a big part of his life and is therefore catholic in name only but cannot and should not speak for Catholics. They are ignorant
So saying someone blows up an abortion clinic as a Christian, comparing him to a Muslim taking out infidels must stop. It is slander. They cannot compare the bible to the Koran. The bible does not call for destruction of property or lives -murder and theft- to attack a lawful process. The perpetrators are not acting out of fidelity to Jesus
That is what should be compared. If people who do so are unwilling to research the Koran for the comparison and realize what they are saying then they must be quiet. They are slandering Christianity
One other thing about the inquisition. Ditto
And anyone who pretends that clergy are saints are again very mistaken about the catechism. The clergy to the contrary are very tempted because of the example the bring. They are often holy sometimes evil, out of their being human but are never saints. No man is a saint. Sainthood comes only after death if it comes. And the Vatican does not make a saint. They only investigate and determine who can be called a saint
Any church member all the way up can do works that they claim to be Christian but are not
No one ever murdered for Jesus. They can say they did. Eric Bolling can say on live TV that they did. But no one ever murdered for Jesus. Jesus does not call for murder. In the case of abortion clinics, they are legal. The Christian thing to do is to change the law by legal means and change the minds of the culture through cultural means depicted in the Gospel. Neither of which includes blowing up anything.
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