Tommy Mann

At the Presidential Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama seemingly equated Christians with ISIS. 48 hours after the world watched in horror as ISIS thugs burned a Jordanian man alive, the President warned of Christians being on a “high horse,” and called for them to remember their own shortcomings. While the free world is still waiting for Mr. Obama to actually do something about this disgusting evil presence, we will have to settle for another lecture; ironically, this condescending lecture included a call for humility.   The President cited the Crusades as a time when people did horrible things in the name of Christ. He specifically mentioned Christ over and over, yet has still never identified terrorists as doing their evil in the name of Allah or Mohammed. Today he said their evil is done in the name of “religion.” The problem with using the Crusades against Christians is three-fold. 1, the Crusades were a thousand years ago; 2, the Crusades were done by ...

One of the most common criticisms of the Bible is that it was written by men and not God; my response to this is always the same: man would not write a book like the Bible. Let me give a quick example. In President Barack Obama’s first book, Dreams From My Father, he records the story of his paternal grandfather in Kenya, Hussein Onyango Obama. For a brief period in time the elder Obama converted to Christianity and changed his last name to Johnson, but that was a short-lived venture. Here is part of his description: “But he could not understand such ideas as mercy towards your enemies, or that this Jesus could wash away a man’s sins…this was foolish sentiment, something to comfort women. And so he converted to Islam—he thought its practices conformed more closely to his beliefs [1] .” Had man written the Bible independent of God then the idea of mercy toward enemies would not be in it. A man like Hussein Onyango, who was physically abusive toward each of his wives, a...

An Associate Pastor’s wife has made headlines for referring to the Southern Baptist Convention as “Shiite Baptists” for opposing homosexuality and the Boy Scouts’ decision to allow in homosexual scout leaders. The Associate Pastor resigned in the wake of his wife’s article (although he claims he was fired). This has naturally sparked another round of debates about how Christians are to view homosexuality. For the record, the Bible repeatedly condemns it, a fact that many in the church have decided to ignore. But how fair is it to compare Baptists to Shiite Muslims? Sure, both groups view homosexuality as a sin, but Muslims teach that homosexuals are to be executed, while Christians teach that they are to be loved. So while the media is having its field day calling Christians hate-filled homophobic bigots, don’t forget that they also champion Islam as being the religion of peace. Sure, one group kills homosexuals, and one group is called to love ...