At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama asserted the moral equivalence of Christianity and radical Islam. Read what he said after the jump and consider: Though Christianity too has violence in its history, what is wrong with what he says?
From Critics pounce after Obama talks Crusades, slavery at prayer breakfast – The Washington Post:
At a time of global anxiety over Islamist terrorism, Obama noted pointedly that his fellow Christians, who make up a vast majority of Americans, should perhaps not be the ones who cast the first stone.“Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history,” he told the group, speaking of the tension between the compassionate and murderous acts religion can inspire. “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.”
