Posted on 02/11/2015 5:34:07 AM PST by SJackson
This week, President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast, where he proceeded to inform an audience of Christians that they ought not judge radical Muslims currently engaged in beheading journalists, defenestrating gays, crucifying children, and engaging in mass rape of women. Why, pray tell, should Christians remain silent? Because, Obama informed them with Ivy League pride, “Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. So it is not unique to one group or one religion.”
At some point in our collective history, our ancestors engaged in tribal warfare and cannibalized their fallen enemies. So shut up about the Nazis, you hypocrites.
Forget Obama’s historical ignorance, if you can, for just a moment. Forget that the Crusades, for all their brutality and horror, were a response to Islamic aggression; forget that the Inquisition was an attempt to systematize legal punishment for anti-Christian activity rather than leaving it to the heated mob; forget that all abolitionist leaders were devout Christians; forget that hundreds of thousands of Christians marched to their deaths during the Civil War singing the words “as He died to make men holy, so we die to make men free”; forget that the chief leaders of the civil rights movement were Christian leaders like Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Focus instead on the fact that President Obama felt the necessity to defend radical Islam at all. Why defend radical Islam? What is the point?
Obama defends radical Islam because he does not think in terms of ideology, but in terms of power dynamics. If radical Muslims commit terror, it is because they feel helpless and hopeless. If they feel helpless and hopeless, it is because Westerners made them feel that way.
If Westerners made them feel that way, it is because Western ideology must be exploitative and evil.
In other words, Obama cites the Crusades as justification for shutting Christians up because the Crusades caused all of this. If Christians had just kept their pieholes shut several thousand years ago, none of this would have happened. Obama’s ignorant and bigoted gloss on Christian history isn’t a throwaway line: it’s the centerpiece of his philosophy. Radical Islam isn’t the problem because Christianity is. And we know that Christianity is the problem because radical Islam is violent. In this skewed version of reality, modern Christianity’s fantastic record is a direct outgrowth of its disreputable past.
Obama extends this bizarre philosophy to every part of life. Those who murder Jews in Israel aren’t motivated by radical Islam: They were exploited by those evil, non-murdering Jews. Those who riot in Ferguson aren’t motivated by a corrupt ideology of victimhood: They were exploited long ago by those who cower in their stores, trying to prevent the looting. Those who sire children they abandon, drop out of school and refuse to hold down jobs aren’t predictable refuse of a broken philosophy: They are victims of those who get married, stay in school and hold down jobs. Success is the ultimate indicator that your philosophy is evil. Failure is the ultimate indicator that you are a victim, regardless of your ideology.
Obama’s philosophy is the philosophy of failure. No wonder radical Islam holds a cherished place in his heart, while Judeo-Christian religion find itself in his doghouse
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F**k OhVomit!
You beat me by a second or two: I was going to reference the same thing.
All the logic of a six-year-old at daycare: “HE STARTED IT!”
A silver lining in this cloud is that more people seem to becoming aware that the Crusades were an ultimately failed defensive war against the scourge of moslem murder, rape, conquest, plunder, and pillage (the five true pillars of islam).
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I am so very tempted to post this as a seperate thread:
We should use an Obama tactic.
Double down spreading the word about the Religion of Hatred that has infiltrated our country.
Free people do not allow Islam any foothold in their country.
i despise Islam. There. In fact when driving past a billboard yesterday about moohamed I flipped it the bird.
Off topic, please allow me just for a moment...when did “because of” become “because”? When did “in the hospital” become “in hospital”? When did “make a decision” become “take a decision”? End of interruption...sorry...thank you.
Obama and Islam, still sore that they got stopped at the gates of Vienna.
That’s pretty common on the left.
What they really want to “prove” is that the standard by which their opponents are judging their behavior is invalid.
And they “prove” that the standard is invalid because those who hold that standard often fail to live up to it.
It’s a rejection of objective truth, and this is a deeply engrained assumption in the leftist worldview - that there is no objective truth or standard.
(Because if such an objective standard exists, it has to be outside of human definition, and therefore God exists and will judge everyone by that standard.)
You’re trying to apply a standard of speech to talk about a rejection of a standard of behavior...:)
Brilliant. Ben is almost always spot on
et tu?
Oh, it’s much worse than that. I wasn’t even referring to the article, just to our society in general.
Figured it out. I’m old and having trouble adjusting to the changes around me.
“In hospital” is some Brit crap. “Take a meeting” ‘grab lunch” ick, I say ick.
The left would say it was an “evolution of language” when it is, in fact, a degradation of language.
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