Posted on 02/10/2015 5:14:47 PM PST by Biggirl
Tuesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest doubled down on President Barack Obama’s comments last week at the National Prayer Breakfast, when he said, “Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember during Crusades and Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country slavery and Jim Crow was all to often justified in the name of Christ.”
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709 days tomorrow on Feb. 11, 2015.
I really do not want to wish my life away, but Freepers, we’ve got work to do. We need to evaluate our candidates, work for a true conservative candidate for POTUS, then unite, UNITE!
Yes, we can do it! With the grace of God, it will not be too late.
Earlier today I was looking for some images on Google. I searched for ISIS attracities. DO NOT LOOK. I have a strong constitution and have seen some gruesome things before. The only thing close I can compare it to is the rape of Nanking. Obama is an evil man.
[[The big difference is that Christians have evolved and made a lot of progress.]]
The big difference is that the Christians were DEFENDING themselves against brutal marauders who took their lands- The muslism are the ones who BEGAN crusades AGAINST the Christians nd Jews- the Christian crusades were a DEFENSIVE action to stop the brutality against us-
posted these in another similar thread- but worth posting here too-
it’s very funny/odd that the ‘Christian Crusades’ are always mentioned but the ‘Muslim Crusades’ which begat the Christian crusades is NEVER mentioned- The FACT is that the Christian crusades were a defensive act against muslim aggression that had been ongoing for quite some time- The Christian crusades were a direct result of the MUSLIM CRUSADES that were waged against Christians and Jews. Muhammad initiated and ordered aggression against the Christian ‘infidels’ and ordered that their lands be taken by the sword- which they did!
I don’t hear anyone on Fox news getting the FACTS out to the public who are largely ignorant of what actually happened, and who mistakenly think the Christian Crusades were an order by the church to plunder, murder and convert via the sword- the Crusades were NOT - Some crusaders did go astray, however, they were NOT doing so under the orders from the church, they were doing so under the influence of the evil one because these people were NOT saved to begin with- God NEVER ordered such atrocities, and those few that did so were NOT following orders from God- Period!
Early in the eighth century, sixty Christian pilgrims [to the Holy Land] from Amorium were crucified [by Muslims]; around the same time, the Muslim governor of Caesarea seized a group of pilgrims from Iconium and had them all executed as spies…
Brutal subordination and violence became the rules of the day for [or against] Christians in the Holy Land. In 772, the caliph al-Mansur ordered the hands of Christians and Jews in Jerusalem be stamped with a distinctive symbol. Conversions to Christianity were dealt with particularly harshly. In 789, Muslims beheaded a [Christian] monk who had converted from Islam and plundered the Bethlehem monastery of Saint Theodosius, killing many more monks. Other monasteries in the region suffered the same fate. Early in the ninth century, the persecutions grew so severe that large numbers of Christians fled to Constantinople [the eastern center of Christianity] and other Christian cities. More persecutions in 923 saw additional churches destroyed, and in 937, Muslims went on a Palm Sunday rampage in Jerusalem, plundering and destroying the Church of Calvary and the Church of the Resurrection.
From Spencer, Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, 122-23.
“Though European Crusaders may have been sincere, they wandered off from the origins of Christianity when they slashed and burned and forced conversions. Jesus never used violence; neither did he call his disciples to use it. Given this historical fact, it is only natural that the New Testament would never endorse violence to spread the word of the true God. Textual reality matches historical reality.
In contrast, Muslims who slashed and burned and forced conversions did not wander off from the origins of Islam, but followed it closely. It is a plain and unpleasant historical fact that in the ten years that Muhammad lived in Medina (622-632), he either sent out or went out on seventy-four raids, expeditions, or full-scale wars, which range from small assassination hit squads to the Tabuk Crusade [630]... Sometimes the expeditions did not result in violence, but a Muslim army always lurked in the background. Later on, Muhammad could exact a terrible vengeance on an individual or tribe that double-crossed him. These ten years did not know long stretches of peace.
Therefore, it is only natural that the Quran would be filled with references to jihad and qital, the latter word meaning only fighting, killing, warring, and slaughtering. Textual reality matches historical reality.
But this means that the Church had to fight back or be swallowed up by an aggressive religion over the centuries. Thus, the Church did not go out and conquer in a mindless, bloodthirsty, and irrational way––though the Christian Crusades were far from perfect.
Islam was the aggressor in its own Crusades, long before the Europeans responded with their own.”
From: James M. Arlandson, “Timeline of the Islamic Crusades; The Truth about Islamic Imperialism,” (http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/crusades_timeline.htm, August 1, 2013).
[[Doubling down on stupid doesn’t convince anyone.]]
Sure it does- that’s why we have aq second term of ‘dear leader’ America doubled down on stupidity
[[I can’t believe all the so called conservatives who have been conned into the “Crusades were barbaric” nonsense.]]
You and me both- I hear NOONE on Fox news standing up for Christians by telling folks the TRUTH about the crusades- When we don’t even have fox news standing up for us, then the war is lost because the ignorant masses who voted dear leader in twice will NEVER get to hear the actual truth and will believe their leader only
[[What will Islam do when Obama and his Admin have to leave the White House ,LOL]]
Don’t laugh too soon- there is talk that he may have his eye on becoming ‘president of the UN’- God help us all if he does-
Well, you know, we waterboarded terrorists and that's really just as bad you know. Or so the leftist fools would say.
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