Second-term-post-midterms Barack Obama is gettin’ ’em.
U.S. President Barack Obama had a pointed message for a congregate of fellow Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday after international media reported on the grisly killing of a Jordanian pilot by ISIS militants.
Obama warned them against their so-called “high horse” behavior regarding religious extremism.
He said: “Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history, advising them “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.”
He also reminded the group that in the United States slavery was justified in the name of religion.
“In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
Christian Conservatives are furious that he dared to say a bunch of true things out loud. This is precisely the kind of situation the phrase “holier-than-thou” was invented to cover.
