Posted on 02/07/2015 4:23:45 AM PST by Kaslin
I find it very odd that a president notably lacking in humility and frequently riding his own high horse would lecture American Christians about those subjects because they presumably condemn acts of barbarism by Islamists.
Talk about a string of disconnects. While we're at it, let's note one more. Obama, at the National Prayer Breakfast, also exhorted us to "uphold the distinction between our faith and our governments -- between church and between state." Last time I checked, it was not Christians, unless you believe that Obama is a Christian, who were using government power to restrict religious liberties of others.
Obama, however, has conspicuously infringed on the conscience rights of Christians in supporting mandates that require religious organizations to pay for contraception and abortifacients.
Indeed, Obama was too busy lecturing Christians about "theocracies that restrict people's choice of faith" -- though there are no Christian theocracies in the world -- to note that many Muslim nations in the world are theocratic and under Shariah.
Is Obama's moral compass so skewed that he is utterly blind to the rampant theocratic oppression that routinely occurs in Muslim nations in the world? This takes moral equivalency to new levels.
But that wasn't even his worst moral distortion of the morning. On the heels of the Islamic State group's burning alive a captured Jordanian pilot, Obama's instinct was not to decry ISIS' depraved murder but to caution us not to judge the religion of Islam. Was anyone doing that, by the way?
As usual, Obama's first impulse to another atrocity committed in the name of Islam was to defend Islam -- and attack Christianity and Christians, who Obama apparently believes are holding their noses in the air thinking they don't engage in such behavior in the name of their religion.
Foremost on his mind was to correct the record on Islam, kind of a pre-emptive defense of the religion he holds dear from his childhood, against any attempts to tar it based on thousands of "isolated" incidents. Here's where his moral equivalence reared its ugly head again.
He said, "We ... see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge or, worse, sometimes used as a weapon." That was his predicate for chronicling the recent despicable actions of ISIS -- an acronym, by the way, that, in his moral bewilderment, he refuses to utter -- and then glibly transitioning into certain regrettable actions committed by or with the support of Christians in history.
Of course, he was compelled to invoke the Crusades, which in his view were unprovoked acts of aggression by Christians against Muslims but which in reality were far more complex than that. And of course, he had to mention the Inquisition, as if that is somehow relevant, even microscopically, to what's going on today.
But no blanket condemnation would be complete without Obama's obligatory and habitual denunciation of slavery and Jim Crow, only this time he cited them as examples not of America's evil past but of evils committed in the name of Christianity.
As long as we're talking about "wedges" and "weapons," it sure seems to me as if that's precisely how Obama continues to use slavery and Jim Crow. He just will not let these go. It obviously never occurs to him that Christianity was one of the main driving forces in eradicating slavery in this country. But we can hardly expect him to give us a fair reading of Christianity's role when he is on a mission to demonize it.
Obama is the one who needs to demonstrate a little humility and dismount his own elevated steed. He needs to put aside the pride that contributes to clouding his judgment about acts of terror committed by Islamists. He needs to recognize that it is nothing short of an act of moral cowardice to suggest that the multitudinous atrocities committed in the name of Islam today, whether or not they are representative of the true religion of Islam, bear any comparison to acts of Christians -- today or in the past.
He needs to reset his own bias-riddled perception and open his willfully closed eyes to the fact that we have real enemies today who are killing us in the name of their religion and that, regardless of how representative they are of the faith that fuels their war cry, they see themselves as faith-driven and they are not going to be deterred or pacified by craven denunciations of Christianity or fervent defenses of Islam proper.
This is not about the Islamists' grievances over poverty or injustice or any of the other pet causes with which Obama can identify but about conquering the world for a global caliphate and subjugating or killing everyone who will not submit. There is no appeasing this mindset.
Americans are in greater danger now than we have been in decades because we have a leader who simply will not recognize that our allies and we are under attack around the world by untold numbers of people acting under the banner of Islam. No matter how many peaceful Muslims there are in the world, it doesn't change the fact that we're threatened by many who aren't.
If Obama spent one-tenth of the time focusing on these radical enemies as he does apologizing for the religion they claim to represent, Americans would be much safer.
WHAT COULD BE MORE OUTRAGEOUS THAN INSULTING CHRISTIANS AT A PRAYER BREAKFAST. The vaunted Progressive mask of "tolerance and compassion" slips.....as we bear witness to the face of evil.
We, the People, top to bottom, all over the map---elected people who moreoless agree with us (and despise Obama). We now control both Houses of Congress, unified state control of Governorships and legislatures in some 30 sovereign states, governorships in Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass. We ousted 30 lock-stepping Obamacrats who voted for the ACA.
Rejection of Obama could not have been more decisive. Any normal elected official would know he has been made irrelevant. But.....jihadist Obama still has the remaining dark months of his tenure to do damage.
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Progressive "political correctness" has been forced on us by the Holders the Obamas, the Clintons, the DeBlasios, the Sharptons---they have bludgeoned many of their own supporters into a frightening silence. The silence of some on the left is telling....even they know where we're headed.
Progressives' fatal flaw is that they are emotionally disturbed---w/ an obsessive need to "feel good" about themselves. Obama obsessively whines about "helping those who are under-served," those who feel "left out" of the process, etc....forcing we the people to foot the bills for his pathetic emotional needs
Obama's Progressive "vision" has several major flaws:
<><> failing to see that people are not intellectually equal---some are vastly smarter than others. Let's see the Ferguson punks run a Fortune 500 company (snort).
<><> failing to see the existence of evil---Obama equates today's in-your-face Islamic barbarism w/ far-off events that his diseased mind regurgitates from a 1000 years ago.
<><> cavalierly dismissing America's exceptionalism---Obama has managed to extinguish a beacon that lit the entire world.
<><> failing to grow-up---the fact is he's no longer a campus radical itching for a confrontation in the dean's office.
**they are not going to be deterred or pacified by craven denunciations of Christianity or fervent defenses of Islam proper.**
They will actually be emboldened.
A clearer way to say all of this is that Obama is playing for the other team. He is not confused. He does not have distorted perceptions that need to be reset. He is a Muslim fanatic bent on the destruction of the West and the establishment of the Greater Caliphate.
Comucrats, and leftists of any stripe are compulsive projectors and liars.
BUMP!
Obama is never going to “get it.” He has a specific agenda, and it involves diminishing and dismantling American culture, which includes Judeo-Christian underpinnings and free enterprise. It’s a shame that a large percentage of the American population just don’t care what Obama says or does.
I told him looking him straight in the eye that this behavior by folks from that area needed to stop because we have had enough. He said the members of the KKK were all white. I said, it's not about race, I am married to a native of Mexico. It's about the fact that you don't kill people like that. He shut up.
I didn’t hear of anyone walking out during that disgusting speech.
I find that disturbing.
It is a greater shame that a large percentage of the American population doesn’t care about the God, our nation, the culture, civilization, their communities, or their children.
Obama is a reflection of the American electorate.
Think in the future we will look back at this speech as the first indication he’s loosing it!
0bama is every bit the Koranic scholar as he is a Constitutional scholar.
Exactly. He has not surprised me.
Muslim Group’s Enthusiastic Invitation to Obama After Christianity Comments
Feb. 6, 2015 1:42pm Fred Lucas
The nation’s largest Muslim group is inviting President Barack Obama to visit an American mosque, enthusiastically embracing the president’s controversial comments at the National Prayer Breakfast this week comparing past Christian misdeeds to the Islamic State.
The most brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart being that has ever held the office of the Presidency of the United States has told all of you Christians to stop your bellyaching, stop fighting the inevitable, and stfu.
IMHO
I think B0 is possessed.
He (they) believe that only Christians should quit clinging to their guns and religion.
I can’t get over the fact that his lower LIP has been Bleached in the middle. 6 years ago he had PURPLE lips...Dark Purple lips.
Leftists LOVE to play the moral equivalence game. They are like children, i.e. “Johnny hit me first....” Even if what they claim is true (it’s generally not), evil committed 50, 100, or 200 years ago doesn’t justify further evil today.
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