The President made a statement at
the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast and historically illiterate (linked below) radical right wing extremists
lost their minds!
Let's take a few seconds to review the full context of the President’s comments before reading the statement that made the radical right wing go nuts.
…Now over the last few months, we’ve seen a
number of challenges – certainly over the last six years. But part of what I
want to touch on today is the degree to which we’ve seen professions of faith
used both as an instrument of great good, but also twisted and misused in the
name of evil.
As we speak, around the world, we see faith
inspiring people to lift up one another – to feed the hungry and care for the
poor, and comfort the afflicted and make peace where there is strife. We heard the good work that Sister has done
in Philadelphia, and the incredible work that Dr. Brantley and his colleagues
have done. We see faith driving us to do
what is right.
We see sectarian war in Syria, the murder
of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, religious war in the Central African Republic,
a rising tide of anti-Semetism and hate crimes in Europe, so often perpetrated
in the name of religion.
But we, also, see faith being twisted and
distorted, used as a wedge – or worse, sometimes used as a weapon. From a
school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, we have seen violence perpetrated
by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith, professed to stand up
for Islam, but in fact, are betraying it.
We see ISIL, a brutal vicious death cult that, in the name of religion,
carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism – terrorizing religious minorities
like the Yezidis, subjecting women of war, and claiming the mantle of religious
authority for such actions.
After further discussion along
those lines (full transcript linked
below), the President made the following statement…
…Lest we get on our high horse and think
this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the
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.
Radical right wing extremists, jumped on their high horses and rode to FOX with historically illiterate, out of context commentaries
on that statement!
Jim Gilmore
Republican Governor of Virginia stated:
The president’s comments this morning at
the prayer breakfast are the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in
my lifetime…This goes further to the point that Mr. Obama does not believe in America or the values we all (????) share.
Todd
Starnes (a frequent Republican FOX guest) wrote - the
Crusades ended some 700 years ago! If what happened 700 years ago didn’t
matter, how would Mr. Starnes explain the more
recent slaughters, rapes and kidnappings engineered by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s
Resistance Army, which seeks to take over Uganda based on the Ten Commandments? (See
salon article entitled Wingnuts’ latest meltdown: Conservatives go nuts over
Obama’s remarks on Christianity and Islam linked below.)
Republican Catholic
League extremist, Bill Donohue (pedophile
priest apologist} couldn’t wait to get on FOX to
criticize the President for daring to mention Christ and demanded that he apologize!?!?
Republican FOX guest commentator Erick Erickson expressed his
wish that Obama
would stop professing himself to be a Christian. This comes out of
the mouth of a self professed Christian(????) who raises money for the radical right wing Alliance Defending Freedom to prescribe prison
sentences for gay people!
Across the board, FOX show hosts who
display their
Christian (????) values with fake scandals, lies, misinformation, bigotry and hypocrisy (related links below) came up
with their daily Obama-bashing take on the matter…
…What Obama said was a slap in the face to
Christians - Obama is anti-Catholic - Obama is anti-Semitic - Obama is
anti-American - Why did he have to talk about the Crusades, that’s ancient
history - Why did he have to bring up slavery, that’s done with!?!?!
If radical right wing extremists, actually practiced Christian values and lifted their heads from out of the Dark Ages, they would take heed from a quote by noted author, professor and Nobel Laureate in Economic Science,
Douglass North, Ph.D. who once wrote…
History matters, it matters not just
because we can learn from the past, but because the present and the future are
connected to the past by the continuity of a society’s institutions.
Here’s a short quiz that proves
Dr. North’s point related to the present being connected to the past:
Past or Present? Short Quiz
Guess the year in which each of
the following news headlines was published: (Answers at the end of this post.)
- Outbreak!
- A Mideast Warning
- There is still a color line in American law
- More long winded speeches occupy morning in US Senate
- Refuges stream across border
- Bill to allow execution by firing squad advances in Utah
SOURCES:
The White House - 1 day ag
The Atlantic - 10 hours ago
Right Wing Melts Down Over Obama's Comments At ...crooksandliars.com/.../right-wing-melts-down-over-oba...
Wingnuts' latest meltdown: Conservatives go nuts over ...www.salon.com/.../wingnuts_latest_meltdown_conservatives_go_n...
Headlines History - News.com.auresources.news.com.au/files/2014/.../328822-tm-nn-file-160th-part1.pdf
Chronicling America « Library of Congresschroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Historical Newspapers & Indexes On The Internet - USAwww.researchguides.net/newspapers.htm
Fact-Checking Site Finds Fox News Only Tells the Truth 18 ...www.forwardprogressives.com/fact-checking-site-finds-fox-news-tells-tr...
The Science Of Fox News: Why Its Viewers Are The Most ...www.dailykos.com/.../--The-Science-Of-Fox-News-Why-Its-Vi...
www.alternet.org/.../study_confirms_that_fox_news_makes_you...
Short Quiz Answers
- Geelong Advertiser – December, 1854
- New York Times – June, 1982
- The Guardian – March, 1890
- The Daily Capital Journal – February, 1915
- Los Angeles Times – March 1999
- NPR - February, 2015
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