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Obama Equates Christianity With ISIS at Prayer Breakfast!

Obama said:

“Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place. Remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. And our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

I would really like to hear Obama describe the historical timeline of the Crusades.

I wonder if he even knows that the Crusades (and the Inquisition) were a RESPONSE to Muslims murdering Christians and Jews during Islamic incursions into Christian territory.

Now, on the other hand, Christians did, indeed, use their faith, and even the Bible itself, to justify slavery during the early years of our nation's history.

Here are some real quotes. I suspect there are hundreds of these in our historical record:

[Slavery] was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts. —Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America

Every hope of the existence of church and state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the doctrine of Negro suffrage. —Robert Dabney, a prominent 19th-century Southern Presbyterian pastor

... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example. —Richard Furman, President, South Carolina Baptist Convention

And the Bible does say,

Ephesians 6:5-8New American Standard Bible (NASB) 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your [a]masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; 6 not [b]by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the [c]heart. 7 With good will [d]render service, as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

and

Colossians 3:22-24New American Standard Bible (NASB) 22 Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters [a]on earth, not with [b]external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, do your work [c]heartily, as for the Lord [d]rather than for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward [e]of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

Such quotes taken in isolation, however disgusting, do not tell the entire story.

The truth is, the Bible verses above, likely, gave black slaves here in the United States an idea of how to preserve some dignity under the evil weight of their enforced servitude.

Additionally, the quotes from Jefferson Davis, et al, do not serve to encompass the whole of the story of American Christianity's response to slavery.

Indeed, American Christians were the leaders of the Abolitionist movement. And they were moved, BY SCRIPTURE, in their opposition to slavery:

By our slaveholding definitions, human slavery is described as property in man, and slaves are declared to be the property of their masters or owners, and cannot own, possess, or enjoy anything but what belongs to their owners. But by our common law definitions, human slavery is compounded of the crimes of kidnapping, assault and battery, and false imprisonment.

In Exodus 21:16

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.--Ex. xxi. 16.

Etc.

Again, I would like to hear Obama explain the historical procession of ideas that supported and then ultimately defeated slavery.

I seriously doubt he knows the history.

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