History?
He was talking about the second half of the 20th Century as well, re the KKK and the Jim Crow laws in the USA.
Not to forget Anders Breivik in Norway recently, who claimed membership of an 'international Christian military order' and called himself a Christian Crusader, or the bombings of Planned Parenthood clinics in America and Australia, or the Army of God in the USA who state "
whatever force is legitimate to defend the life of a born child is legitimate to defend the life of an unborn child......actions are morally justified if they were necessary for the purpose of defending innocent human life".
And let's not forget the
widely-reported* near beheading of someone in the USA last year, which was apparently because the victim was supposed to be practicing witchcraft, which was against the murderer's Christian beliefs....
btw, here is the source (not Faux News) for the discussion - The
National Prayer Breakfast, and here is the part that the "Fair and Balanced" News Channel didn't report....
Quote:
“We see faith driving us to do right,” he said to more than 3,500 people attending the annual National Prayer Breakfast. “But we also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge — or worse, sometimes used as a weapon.”
He urged believers of all faiths to practice humility, support church-state separation and adhere to the golden rule as ways to keep religion in its proper context.
“As people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those who try to distort our religion — any religion — for their own nihilistic ends,” Obama said. “Here at home and around the world we will constantly reaffirm that fundamental freedom: freedom of religion, the right to practice our faith how we choose, to change our faith if we choose, to practice no faith at all if we choose, and to do so free of persecution and fear and discrimination.”
Obama denounced the so-called Islamic State that is waging a bloody war across Syria and Iraq against fellow Muslims and religious minorities, labeling the group “a brutal, vicious death cult.”....
....“If, in fact, we defend the legal right of a person to insult another’s religion, we’re equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults,” he said, drawing applause, “and stand shoulder to shoulder with religious communities, particularly religious minorities, who are the targets of such attacks.”
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