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 the Catholic Church (Christians make a distinction between); and 3, the Crusades were the result of the Muslims terrorizing
the Catholics who refused to convert and stealing their land.
Telling Christians to dismount from their high horse because
of a centuries-old event seems silly at best. Scolding Christians for what the
Catholics did is simply ignorant. And not recognizing the role Muslims played
in the Crusades is a perversion of history that plays right into the hands of
the Islamic propagandists.
The President further referenced slavery and Jim Crow. Yes,
many Christians fell on the wrong side of the slavery issue, but it was
evangelical Christians who also opposed Jim Crow (see William Wilburforce).
Born-again President Lincoln literally gave his life to give freedom to blacks.
Jim Crow is not burning people alive and raping 10 year old girls; ISIS is
doing that. ISIS uses dull blades to saw the heads off of people; they create
Twitter hashtags for people to suggest gruesome forms of execution; this past week ISIS tossed five gay men off of a tower toward their deaths; they invade
towns, steal, and murder people by the dozens. Christians preach peace and
love.
Christians are not perfect and never claim to be. But Mr.
President, we are not ISIS, and to even remotely compare us in the tiniest
degree is so grossly offensive that you should be ashamed of yourself.
*Editor’s Note:
Because we are not ISIS, we will not be rioting or burning down buildings even
though our religion was insulted.
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