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People who wonder why the president does not talk more about race would do well to examine the recent blow-up over his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Inveighing against the barbarism of ISIS, the president pointed out that it would be foolish to blame Islam, at large, for its atrocities. To make this point he noted that using religion to brutalize other people is neither a Muslim invention nor, in America, a foreign one:
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.
The "all too often" could just as well be "almost always." There were a fair number of pretexts given for slavery and Jim Crow, but Christianity provided the moral justification. On the cusp of plunging his country into a war that would cost some 750,000 lives, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens paused to offer some explanation. His justification was not secular. ......
Stephens went on to argue that the "Christianization of the barbarous tribes of Africa" could only be accomplished through enslavement. And enslavement was not made possible through Robert's Rules of Order, but through a 250-year reign of mass torture, industrialized murder, and normalized rape—tactics which ISIS would find familiar. Its moral justification was not "because I said so," it was "Providence," "the curse against Canaan," "the Creator," "and Christianization." In just five years, 750,000 Americans died because of this peculiar mission of "Christianization." ....
[T]he first government ever instituted upon the principles in strict conformity to nature, and the ordination of Providence, in furnishing the materials of human society ... With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law. Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system. The architect, in the construction of buildings, lays the foundation with the proper material-the granite; then comes the brick or the marble. The substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it, and by experience we know that it is best, not only for the superior, but for the inferior race, that it should be so.
It is, indeed, in conformity with the ordinance of the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of His ordinances, or to question them. For His own purposes, He has made one race to differ from another, as He has made "one star to differ from another star in glory." The great objects of humanity are best attained when there is conformity to His laws and decrees, in the formation of governments as well as in all things else. Our confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws.
Obama is an radical Islamic apologist. What they are doing is happening TODAY not centuries ago.
Slavery ended in the US 150 years ago. Jim Crow, or legalized racial discrimination, ended 50 years ago. George Wallace invoked "Christianity" as a rationale for wanting to stop black students from integrating Alabama schools.
But even in the case of the Crusades, which Obama mentions, so what if it is in the past ? It is an example of the misuse of religion, and shows that Muslims are not the only ones who have done it.
Obama was trying to discourage anti-Muslim bigotry, not defend ISIS.
Obama is an radical Islamic apologist. What they are doing is happening TODAY not centuries ago.
Oh well, in that case, let's sympathize with them.
How do you know I haven't? I knew who this suckling of the Black Panthers was, didn't I?
And you then look like a Jim Crow and slavery apologist not to mention a defender of Christian genocide and abuses... /clap.
Yes, the child of someone who was a BP member couldn't be human.
Oh, the hyperbole of it all. :roll:
Slavery ended in the US 150 years ago. Jim Crow, or legalized racial discrimination, ended 50 years ago. George Wallace invoked "Christianity" as a rationale for wanting to stop black students from integrating Alabama schools.
But even in the case of the Crusades, which Obama mentions, so what if it is in the past ? It is an example of the misuse of religion, and shows that Muslims are not the only ones who have done it.
not defend ISIS.Obama was trying to discourage anti-Muslim bigotry,
Good to know that the Atlantic and Ta-Nehisi Coates are on the job. Ta-Nehisi Coates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coates is one of the best magazine or newspaper columnists in the country. Period.
And you then look like a Jim Crow and slavery apologist not to mention a defender of Christian genocide and abuses... /clap.
Who fought to abolish all that? I'll give you a clue: it wasn't Muslims.
The answer is: liberal progressives.
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