Posted on 02/10/2015 2:16:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
There is no doubt that President Obama’s remarks about Christianity at the National Prayer Breakfast last week were historically accurate. But they were also — let’s face it — glib, facile and patronizing.
[snip of brief, gratuitous, misleading snark to burnish and retain his progressive credentials]
My objection is that Obama — in drawing parallels between past atrocities perpetrated in the name of Christianity and current ones by terrorists acting in the name of Islam — constructed an all-too-pat narrative that lets everyone off the hook, including himself. The admonition not to “get on our high horse” about jihadist terror as a “unique” phenomenon rings hollow, coming from a leader who routinely sends missile-firing drones to blow suspected militants to bits.
For the record, Obama’s history lesson was also incomplete.
“In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ,” the president said. Indeed, slave owners claimed to find justification for their hideous crimes in the Bible, citing passages in both the Old and New Testaments that appear to authorize slavery and describe how human chattel should be treated.
But it is also true that the abolitionist movement grew out of Christian belief and the Christian church.......
[snip]
.....By reaching so far back into history, Obama seemed to echo those who argue that today’s turmoil and terrorism are taking place because Islam has not yet had a Reformation or the Muslim world an Enlightenment. I won’t put words in the president’s mouth. But I will say that, whatever he meant, to compare the depredations of the Islamic State with those of the Crusaders is patronizing in the extreme.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Even a blind nut finds a squirrel every once in a while...
I see a schism between old time religion and black liberation theology.
There is no doubt that President Obama’s remarks about Christianity at the National Prayer Breakfast last week were historically accurate.
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Uh, no, they were not accurate. Yes, there was some bad behavior by some Crusaders but not by all.
Read the whole piece. He’s not happy with Obama’s performance.
Obama is a Christian-hating, Jew-hating MUSLIM!! Actually he hates ALL decent people in American!!
Eugene Robinson is very kind to Our President of the United States. Overly. Why, this wormy cake submission by a journalista? Anyone know? Bueller? Bueller?
I realize that he is not happy with the _resident’s performance, but the comment I cited is still a lie.
It provided a startling look into his thought process.
As much as Obama would love to quote Jeremiah Wright (his pastor and his family’s pastor for 20 years) — “No! No! NO! Not God bless America! God DAMN America” — he instead must resort to passive aggressive crapola like his digs at the National Prayer Breakfast this week (one example of many statements and actions that he’s employed against this country’s national and international interests - as well as those of our allies).
Did the Breakfast organizers lay out his prayer rug in the proper orientation?
“It provided a startling look into his thought process. “
Coming soon to an ISIS recruitment video!
Good question.
I can only imagine the thoughts going through the minds of those in attendance.
He’s trying to get society to “lighten up” on people who historically, have found it difficult to live peacefully among themselves and their fellow citizen but he’s too narcissistic to realize that things don’t work that way and they never will. Especially if he thinks he can force it on us.
I think he’s a coward.
Related: Mark Steyn's piece yesterday, The Sound of Silence.
He’s soooooooooooooooooooo above it all.
They should be worshiping HIM , anyway.
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