I agree completely. And despite what I've been saying about him for eight long years now I'll admit to being a bit stunned myself. Of all of things he could have said that one strikes me as appallingly insensitive, historically uninformed, wildly irrelevant, and deliberately and blatantly offensive. "Yeah, they just burned a prisoner alive in gasoline, but we have to remember that half a millennium ago Christians did some bad things too" is the resort of a ham-handed fool completely devoid of any rational moral sense. In short, I knew he was bad and expected very little and still he amazed me.
What he said plays well with his anti-Christian base, though.
Most “progressives” are Hunanist, anti-Christian worldview types.
The frightening part is that it is as if he doesn’t care. Which begs the question, if true: Why?