Obama's controversial remarks at Prayer Breakfast offends religious right

[pathansen]

See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-speech-at-prayer-breakfast-called-offensive-to-christians/2015/02/05/6a15a240-ad50-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Obama offended the religious right in America?

Awesome!

[librarylu]

3. His very existence offends the RW

I wish we could keep him forever. Best damn president we've ever had.

[rocktivity]

2. (Pre-click) "Without knowing what he said, if he offended the religious right

his remarks are okay with me!"


rocktivity

[jtuck004]

4. "Mr. Obama does not believe in America or the values we all share.” - I'm not part of your "we",

preacher boy.

[Nye Bevan]

5. I think his comparison of Islamic terrorism today to Christianity hundreds of years ago

was basically on the mark.

Religions need to evolve.

[Vinca]

7. And, let's face it, he could have cited more recent examples.

The far right Christians urging Uganda to execute gays, the assassination of abortion doctors . . . and doesn't the KKK consider itself a Christian organization? If anything, the POTUS was being kind toward the Christian religion.

[pathansen]

8. And, sadly, slavery still exists in most countries in the world today - See map

Mainly India, but also Africa, Russia, Saudia Arabia, China, and some parts of South America.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s/
Why arn't more news media addressing this problem?

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Examples that offer counterparts to recent evets include the 1978 firebombing of a cinema in Paris

by Christian terrorists offended at 'Last Temptation of the Christ'. They set people on fire for their faith. And when it comes to beheading, the Vatican just 150 years ago was lopping off the heads of civil criminals in the Papal States. The final Official Papal Executioner chopped off 516 heads for civil crimes, the practice was halted only by the Italian Republic's usurping secular rule from the Papacy over those territories.

[treestar]

12. Obama even let Rick Warren do an inaugural prayer

So he is hardly to be forgiven here.

[SidDithers]

6. Good...nt

Sid

[Tom Ripley]

9. Fuck them

[ChosenUnWisely]

10. Unfortunately he did not offend them enough but just being a Black POTUS is enough to set them off!

It has become comical how predictable they have become!

Cue circus music…….

[Vattel]

13. Equating Islamist terrorism and the Spanish inquisition is absurd because unlike Islamist terrorism

nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!

[Orsino]

14. The Party of Sweeping Things Under the Rug was not going to be comfortable...

...with any assessment touching on reality. Believers who regard the mere profession of faith as proof against criticism are going to be triggered by even the mildest sort of frankness.

And Christianity is supposed to be the only religion we can't criticize? Not even the adherents of a millennium ago? The Christian supremacy is showing.