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President Barack Obama is concerned about violence "in the name of Christ"
La Salette Journey ^ | February 5, 2015 | Paul Melanson

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: barackobama; christ; name; president
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1 posted on 02/05/2015 10:06:24 AM PST by cleghornboy
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To: cleghornboy

The muslim in the white hut is trying to distract us from islamic terrorists.


2 posted on 02/05/2015 10:07:34 AM PST by dragonblustar
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What a piece of $h!t. Excusing the subhuman violence committed by his best buddies by saying “look at what you bad Christians did!”

We know where his heart is.
Remember the lie during the campaign “0bama is a committed Christian”?
I knew it was a lie then.


3 posted on 02/05/2015 10:09:29 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: cleghornboy

I couldn’t care less what Obama is concerned about.

All I care about is getting Obama into his constitutional cage where he belongs until he’s no longer in the White House.


4 posted on 02/05/2015 10:11:07 AM PST by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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To: cleghornboy

It’s high time we end this charade from this charlatan.


5 posted on 02/05/2015 10:11:10 AM PST by Bullish (He's just NOT presidential material.)
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6 posted on 02/05/2015 10:11:14 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: dragonblustar

It sure looks that way to me. If we think it is bad now,just wait until God withdraws much of His influence in this world & see how bad it can get then. Real Christianity,when it is applied,is a wholesome influence in spite of what some would have us believe.


7 posted on 02/05/2015 10:11:54 AM PST by oldtech
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8 posted on 02/05/2015 10:12:21 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: cleghornboy

Obama sounds as ignorant and reactionary as a basement-blogger commenting on a HuffPo article.

Same stupid cliches and slogans, having little connection to reality.


9 posted on 02/05/2015 10:12:34 AM PST by PGR88
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To: cleghornboy

Jordans king is flying planes himself and dropping bombs on these savages, while our president is giving speeches warning of Christians!

ARG!!!! I HATE this commie islamic fag !!!


10 posted on 02/05/2015 10:14:42 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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slavery and Jim Crow

Gah! It's like a wife who won't stop talking about a wrong her husband did 50 years ago.

And to complete the analogy, she uses it to relativize wrongs her brother is committing today.

11 posted on 02/05/2015 10:14:48 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: cleghornboy

Why is Obama bringing up that slavery was ever justified in the name of Christ? His version of history is just so warped.


12 posted on 02/05/2015 10:15:00 AM PST by grania
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Given the time frame of the offences he is talking about, it seems like he should be seeking new longsword control laws.

And for the record slavery in the US and England was stopped by Christian. Wonder why it hasn’t been stopped in many parts of the Arab world.


13 posted on 02/05/2015 10:15:45 AM PST by thorvaldr
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To: dragonblustar

That’s because he’s not concerned with the Islamic violence.


14 posted on 02/05/2015 10:16:24 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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"In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."

Really?

15 posted on 02/05/2015 10:17:27 AM PST by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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To: grania

Well Christians ended slavery, Muslims still practice it. Sorta like Washington making beer in the White House. Never mind ignorance is bliss and Obama seems very blissful.


16 posted on 02/05/2015 10:23:44 AM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: cleghornboy

What do you know? He DID listen to Rev Wright’s sermons.


17 posted on 02/05/2015 10:24:34 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: I want the USA back
Jim Crow was a blemish on the nation and the judiciary, but the key word is WAS.

As far as I can tell Christians in Nigeria, ect, are on the run, and in defense mode.

18 posted on 02/05/2015 10:25:35 AM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: thorvaldr

Indeed, what about the hundreds of thousands of Europeans taking into slavery by the Barbary states?


19 posted on 02/05/2015 10:26:30 AM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: cleghornboy

This is how our POTUS spends his days: insult the one true God insult our great country, insult people that are not of a preferred minority group, insult taxpaers, insult the poor, insult the rich, insult the middle class, insult police, insult our allies...

People who voted for this loser should be ashamed, assuming they’re not too stupid to realize what they’ve done.


20 posted on 02/05/2015 10:28:25 AM PST by Made In The USA (Yes Ma'am, I said I'd like three sides of bacon with my eggs. and bacon.)
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