Discussion » Questions » Politics » Remember when a U.S president alluded to Christianity being as murderous as Islam and that too was condemned?
O-uknow

Remember when a U.S president alluded to Christianity being as murderous as Islam and that too was condemned?

"Hard to take moral high ground from valley"
      Grandfather

Posted - July 17, 2018
Tags : None

Responses


  • 5391
    My guess is you refer to Obama’s comments at a National Prayer Breakfast. Yes he was wrong, but he was, in historical context, correct. 

    Insulting the audience of Christians he was speaking to, by comparing them to the Muslim-driven cancers raging in the Middle East at that time was in poor taste, but in terms of historical bodycount, Christians still lead the contest by a wide margin. But we cannot stand on moral relativism of events five hundred or a thousand years apart. That’s the primary wrong in Obama’s lecture. 

    The problem isn’t just Christianity or Islam, it’s the nature and practice of man’s primitive religions that hath forged so much ill and destruction and mass death. No faith system is stainless here (except maybe the Jains) and we’d do well to remember that. This post was edited by Don Barzini at July 20, 2018 4:10 PM MDT
      July 17, 2018 4:46 AM MDT
    2

  • 8214
    and the reason you chose to ask this question is?
      July 17, 2018 5:19 AM MDT
    1

  • 1305
    Well, while he was giving that distraction he was signing off on the removal of everyone's privacy rights in order to spy on everyone.  
      July 17, 2018 10:34 AM MDT
    1

  • 5391
    That was actually under the so-called “Patriot Act” enacted under GW Bush. 
      July 17, 2018 12:47 PM MDT
    2

  • 1305
    Didn't Obama permit the mass surveillance program of the NSA?
      July 18, 2018 10:20 AM MDT
    1

  • 5391
    I think he did. It didn’t begin on his watch, and was an outgrowth of the Patriot Act
      July 18, 2018 10:23 AM MDT
    2

  • 5835

    Actual numbers: 
    https://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/11/06/opinion/06atrocities_timeline.html

     

    People who keep posting bullsnot about religious wars really ought to do some research. 

      July 17, 2018 1:06 PM MDT
    0

  • 5391
    Your fancy graph, while informative, provides nothing in the specific context of this conversation. Who said anything about wars? This post was edited by Don Barzini at October 5, 2018 12:10 AM MDT
      July 17, 2018 6:52 PM MDT
    1

  • 1326
    Genuine Christianity has never engaged in the immoral bloodshed Christendom is guilty of. (John 13:35)
      October 5, 2018 12:03 AM MDT
    0

  • 13277
    Although the Inquisition and the Crusades were sanctioned by the Church in Rome, and they made life rather unpleasant for Jews and Muslims.
      October 5, 2018 12:15 AM MDT
    0