Obama at Prayer Event: Christians did terrible things, too Todd Starnes
By Todd Starnes
Published February 05, 2015, FoxNews.com
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President Obama called on people of faith to reject those who use religion to justify evil – and in doing so – reminded people about the terrible things done in the name of Jesus Christ.
Obama told a gathering Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast that we have seen “professions of faith used both as an instrument of great good but twisted in the name of evil.”
The Crusades ended some 700 years ago.
“From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith – their faith – profess to stand up for Islam but in fact are betraying it,” he said.
He did not mention radical Islam or jihadists or Islamic extremists. He did, however, call ISIS a “brutal, vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism.”
The president also issued a word of warning to Christians.
“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place – remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” the president said.
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He also chided the United States, “our home country.”
“Slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ,” he added.
Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas and the author of the upcoming book, “Countdown to the Apocalypse: Why ISIS and Ebola Are Only the Beginning,” said there are two problems with Obama’s comparison.
“When Christians act violently they are acting in opposition to the teachings of their founder, Jesus Christ,” Jeffress told me. “They cannot cite a single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against unbelievers. On the other hand, radical Islamists can point to a number of verses in the Koran calling for Muslims to ‘crucify the infidels.’”
On Wednesday a United Nations watchdog group reported that Islamic militants were crucifying Iraqi children and burying them alive. Others had been sold as sex slaves and boys as young as 18 had been used as suicide bombers, Reuters reported.
“They are following the example of their founder Muhammad who slaughtered and beheaded those who opposed him,” Jeffress said.
While the Crusades were terrible, Jeffress pointed out they were a response to hundreds of years of Muslim aggression – an issue he writes about in his book.
As you might imagine – the president’s remarks did not go over well among conservatives. My friend Michelle Malkin put it nicely:
"ISIS chops off heads, incinerates hostages, kills gays, enslaves girls. Obama: Blame the Crusades," she tweeted.
I was puzzled by something else President Obama said: "We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends."
What did he mean by “our religion”? Whose religion? And why did he compare the Crusades to ISIS?
The Crusades ended some 700 years ago. Perhaps the president should be a bit more concerned with the Islamic jihad being waged in this century.
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" This guy is the biggest POS of an elected official that I have seen in my lifetime, perhaps in the entirety of the Republic. "
Agree 100% !! I cannot wait for him to be gone! Sadly, he will probably be replaced by another POS!
Now that he thinks he has successfully attacked Christ and the entire Christian Nation without any major opposition, I predict, in this his second, and last term, he will soon go after his crowning glory!
Any Guesses?
The silence of this once great Christian Nation is deafening. jmho!
The total destruction of the white middle class in America.
That's happening right now with our wide open borders, foreign thieves sucking our resources dry. But I believe it can, and will get worse.
There are those who would say Obama attempting any sort of reparations would be useless because it was the Obama and the Bush Administration who both walked away from the Slavery negotiating table in the International forums.
Except for an occasional place for him to lay blame (bush) for one of his many FAILED hair-brained schemes, and with world wide support of the black race, and if it somehow succeeded, that arrogant, pompous wind-bag won't be sharing this glory with anyone. jmho!
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President "Barack Obama" 2014 Reparations Act in The United States of America
President "Barack Obama" 2014 "Reparations Act" Part I "Brief Slavery History for Complete Understanding" Reparations for slavery is a proposal that some type of compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States, In consideration of the coerced and uncompensated labor their ancestors performed over centuries. This compensation has been proposed in a variety of forms, from individual monetary payments to landbased compensation schemes related to independence. snip/
On July 30, 2008, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution apologizing for American slavery and subsequent discriminatory laws. Some states have also apologized for slavery, including Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. snip/
President "Barack Obama" 2014 "Reparations Act" Part II Private "Institutions and Corporations were also involved in slavery. On March 8, 2000, Reuters News Service reported that Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, a law school graduate, Initiated a one-woman campaign making a historic demand for restitution and apologies from modern companies that played a direct role in enslaving Africans. Aetna Inc. was her first target because of their practice of writing life insurance policies on the lives of enslaved Africans with slave owners as the beneficiaries. In response to Farmer-Paellmann's demand, Aetna Inc. issued a public apology, and the "corporate restitution movement" was born. snip/
President "Barack Obama" 2014 "Reparations Act" Part III past "Arguments for Reparations" Accumulated wealth In 2008 the American Humanist Association published an article which argued that if emancipated slaves had been allowed to possess and retain the profits of their labor, Their descendants might now control a much larger share of American social and monetary wealth. Not only did the freedmen and -women not receive a share of these profits, but they were stripped of the small amounts of compensation paid to some of them during Reconstruction. The wealth of the United States, they say, was greatly enhanced by the exploitation of African American slave labor. snip/
Group Demands that "President Barack Obama" form Task Force to Study Reparations for Slavery A petition has been circulating to demand that President Obama and Congress take the lead on at least investigating reparations for slavery in the United States. The petition also reaches for practical, tangible solutions to help obtain reparations. It mentions US House Bill HR 40, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers in Michigan, which lays out ways that reparations can be paid. Whereas, U.S. House Bill H.R. 40, as it was originally sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, D-MI, provides a viable outline that best suits this measure. We further recognize reparations as the only way forward to move towards resolution of this human rights issue; snip/
Therefore, we sign this petition to demand that government of the United States of America immediately form a Task Force, or Commission, Whose purpose is formulate how reparations will be made to the descendants of the Africans who were brutally enslaved in this country for centuries, And who were further demoralized and oppressed for another 100+ years of Jim Crow. snip/
