Barack Obama cannot possibly have a tin ear to the prevailing attitude among his harshest critics.
Can he?
The president stood before the National Prayer Breakfast audience Thursday and managed to offend Christians by invoking the memory of the Crusades and ol’ Jim Crow laws in scolding those who contend that Islam is the only great religion that produces horrible acts against humanity.
Not true, the president said. The Crusades and slavery were carried out — in the minds of many — in the name of Jesus Christ.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/critics-pounce-after-obama-talks-crusades-slavery-at-prayer-breakfast/ar-AA92xT8
Let’s understand something: President Obama spoke the harsh truth about the Crusades and U.S. laws that placed Americans in bondage.
He said: “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, 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.”
His comments enraged some Republicans. According to the Washington Post: “’The president’s comments this morning at the prayer breakfast are the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in my lifetime,’ said former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore (R). ‘He has offended every believing Christian in the United States. This goes further to the point that Mr. Obama does not believe in America or the values we all share.’”
Have we gotten over-sensitized to hearing such harsh scolding from our politicians? I’m beginning to think that’s the case. The late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy used to admonish Americans for not exhibiting more understanding and compassion toward others and he, too, enraged critics by speaking words not everyone wanted to hear.
Barack Obama’s own Christian faith ought to give him some license to tell the truth the way he sees it.
That, of course, won’t sell to those who continue to insist he has “Muslim sympathies,” or even that he’s actually a “closet Muslim.” He has proclaimed his faith in Jesus Christ more times than I can remember, but that won’t quell the critics this time.
Then again, the Constitution of the United States declares there should be no religious litmus test for those seeking public office. But what the heck, that’s another story for another time.
I find it very amusing when some Christians get enraged when people (even other crusades as well) speak the truth about the Crusades. Yes they killed in the name of Jesus. I do know which Jesus because Jesus Christ of the bible would never condone such acts. Same goes for those Jim Crow Laws preaching segregations when Jesus wanted unity. By the way so what Obama is a Muslim, if that is the route he wants to travel peace be to him. Remember everyone the God of Christianity wants people to come to him voluntarily (see Joshua 24).