{"id":28487,"date":"2015-05-13T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=28487"},"modified":"2015-05-13T07:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:45:46","slug":"history-of-the-crusades-president-obamas-prayer-breakfast-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/05\/history-of-the-crusades-president-obamas-prayer-breakfast-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Crusades: President Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019m going to backtrack for today\u2019s video. This video is a discussion of President Obama\u2019s comments<\/a> about the Crusades at the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast.<\/p>\n

I decided to put these videos on Public Catholic because of the president\u2019s\u00a0comments. Inaccurate history is used by Christian bashers to attack Christianity every single day. Christians do not know enough history to reply or deal with this intelligently. That needs to change.<\/p>\n

After I finish with this series of videos on the Crusades, I\u2019m going to take up the ignorant mis-use of Scripture to bash Christians.<\/p>\n

We are living in a time in which Christians are the new group of people that it is ok to attack, bash, haze and hate. I see it all the time in crazy mean hate blogs and their crazy mean authors. I\u2019ve encountered it repeatedly at certain political gatherings. It\u2019s out there for everyone to see in the constant drip-drip-drip of anti-Christian articles in the press. We get a continuous\u00a0battering from televised specials about Jesus which consistently seek to attack the veracity of the Gospels. It\u2019s Lent, with Easter coming, so we\u2019re going to see a lot of that right now.<\/p>\n

Then there is the false history, the anti-history, about the Crusades and all other Christian history. You can be sure that whether the topic is the Black Death or the fall of Rome, there will be a jibe against Christians and Christianity in there somewhere. In fact, most of the time, anti-Christian propaganda pretending to be history will be prominent. What you will not see is any mention of the civilization-building power of Christianity, or the development of human rights because of the teachings of Christ. Some of these slanders in the popular media are distortions, but \u00a0a lot of it is direct lying.<\/p>\n

Americans aren\u2019t just ignorant of the truth, they are actively and aggressively being taught lies about Christianity and Christian history by the popular media. The media appears to be working in tandem with aggressive Christian bashers in an effort to\u00a0destroy the faith of Christians in this country. The president\u2019s speech, as well as a lot of other things he\u2019s said and done,\u00a0is an indication of how deep this hatred of Christians runs in certain circles.<\/p>\n

It is no accident that we are witnessing an on-going genocide of Christians in a whole region of the world. These two things are, as they always are, tied together. Verbal hazing, degrading propaganda, lies and slanders of a whole people, are the intellectual scaffolding on which those who would commit genocide stand.<\/p>\n

We really need to stop dismissing these constant attacks on our faith and ourselves as if they don\u2019t matter. We also need to stop being overawed by the verbal violence and self-proclaimed authority of our attackers. I am not counseling a descent into the slime pit of public discourse alongside them. What I am suggesting is that Christians make the effort to learn the truth so that the lies will not impact us.<\/p>\n

Equipping Christians to deal with this post-Christian culture is the primary purpose of Public Catholic. The first step is overcoming ignorance of their faith and their history among Christians themselves.<\/p>\n

Christians do not need to apologize for Jesus Christ. We need to stand for Him without fear or equivocation.<\/p>\n

I am aware that there are Islamic teachings which lead to a more peaceful application of that faith. I think that the interpretation referenced here is an accurate depiction of of the application of Islamic teachings of a thousand years ago. It also seems that it is still relevant to Islamic extremists today.<\/p>\n

I want to emphasize that this video discusses events which happened almost over a thousand years ago. The reason I am posting it here is to correct the inaccurate \u00a0history of the Crusades which is being used in the popular media to attack and degrade Christians and Christianity.<\/p>\n

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