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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Excellent point!
John 16:2-3
What this means is that people are realizing that most of the violence in the world is done by his best buddies, so he’s saying that Christians are just as bad.
Non negro please!
slavery and Jim Crow
He’s a muzzie. No longer any doubt.
Jim Crow was justified in the name of the Democrat Party to keep the Democrat Party in power. It had nothing to do with Christ.
Muslims like Obola hate Christians.
The difference is, Christian leadership stepped up and put an end to it. Obama, and the “good Muslims”, encourage it, defend it and fund it.
He’s like a little boy being scolded who says, “but Timmy did it toooo!”
How is America’s problems in I history, relatively shot when compared to 6,000 years of barbarism by Islam, even compare?
Obama had to go back to the crusades to find an example to make his point.
To make the opposing viewpoint about Islam, you only have to go back to, let’s be generous and say an hour ago.
Will 01-20-2017 EVER COME?! I don’t know who much more of this Kenyan goat and camel show I can stand.
I’m concerned more about the violence done “in the name of choice”. How many innocent babies does the DemocRAT Party murder each year?
Best post of the day.
If I want to kick some savage’s ass, why can’t I do it in the name of Christ?
I’m confused, Islam invaded Europe starting in 640, and continued invading till this day, and Obama wants to blame Christianity for everything? I mean that’s what I get out of it. He just excused radical Islam for all of it’s killings for the past 1400 years, because of how he sees Christianity with his twisted Muslim Imam’s sermons
Muslims sold Blacks into Slavery to the Spanish, who brought them to the New World, and those slave traders were for the most part atheists
exactly
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