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Obama's prayer breakfast with a side of Christian guilt.

Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago to Government
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Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That cloudless night I spent by the Rio Grande I saw stars more clearly than I had up until then or since. It was astounding!
    Later I was awakened by what I thought was a park ranger's flashlight.
    It was a rising full moon that was so bright I had to cover my face with something to get back to sleep.
    Later after that my brother awoke me with a hard shake and whispered, "Something is up there!"
    Yeah, now it got scary. Something up atop a sharp rise was clomping around. A couple of small rocks came bouncing down.
    Then I saw what looked a pair of devil horns on high. What was that--THING.!!!
    Those horns turned out to be long ears when that thing went, "Hee-haw!"
    It was a wild burro.
    Oh, before the sun went down during that camping adventure, a pair of desert skunks walked through our camp as if my brother and I amounted to absolutely nothing.
    They did not look like Alabama "polecat" skunks
    but those two critters were definitely skunks.
    And they knew it.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    CG, Maybe five-hundred preachy-Obama speeches ago, I might have tried to be empathetic to your POV on this matter...but the timing was cruel and the sentiment expressed demoralizing. I’m glad for you that you are completely oblivious to the evil he is practicing. All I’ve got to say is: sometimes sheeples have got it good. How about a moment of silence for the victims, eh?
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We declared a 'no fly' zone' so that Gaddafi's air force could not launch against the rebels, for one.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've been called much worse. I lived for a couple of years in Monterrey Mexico when I worked for John Deere. As part of that assignment I got Spanish language training, and :"practical" language training by my co-workers and factory workers. One time I was travelling back to the US for Christmas and was in O'Hare. Had to get on an elevator which was shared with some Hispanics. They said some rather derogatory things that they didn't think were being understood, me being a very white Northern European looking guy. As they got off the elevator I told them in very colorful Spanish that their mother would likely need to wash their mouths when they got home. Boy were they surprised.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    thanks for sharing... I think lol. Big Bend is maybe my favorite natl park. saw Hale Bop there shining over the Chisos. same trip saw 3 baby cougars cross the trail each one hanging on the one before it's tail. good times
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was called a gringo one whole time in all my life.
    Back in 1973, a brother and I were illegally camping by the Rio Grande River at Big Bend State Park in Texas. (Legal was crap unless you had a camper).
    Some Mexican kid I couldn't see in what I up until then perceived to be only desert country across the river yells, "Hi, gringo!"
    I simply yelled back "Hi!"
    I found the whole thing amusing.
    To camp by the Rio Grande today? No way, Jose!
    My memory rattles on--
    Back in the late 80s I was searching a cell shared by two inmates.
    While doing so, I told them that inmates had called me everything but a "dirty screw" like in the old prison movies.
    I told them I'd just love it if an inmate would call me that just one time.
    They just stared at me. I think they were scared.
    That was disappointing. I wasn't trying to trick them into being written up or anything.
    I never brought that subject up again.
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    Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I wonder if the excerpts I've read are selected to make him look good.

    He says we "are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends." He is quick to point out he's not being self-righteous or saying his religion has always bee perfect while being firm in condemning extremists as a "death cult."

    He expresses my view perfectly and reaches out to moderates, the vast majority of the world, who want to live in peace.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I want to know more about that. Supposedly, the Clinton tapes makes it obvious it was all Clinton’s brainchild to unseat Gaddaffi.
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  • Posted by jnnrd54 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately, the low information voter does not realize where his train is taking them. The commies have been at it for years, brainwashing the youth and rewriting history and now we see the fruits of their labor.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Bring people together, CG? He used similar language that was used in the propaganda video that ISSI put out a couple days ago. Mentioning the crusades like those who burned alive a pilot for entertainment is very disturbing. I can’t make excuses for his ineptness anymore. He is a traitor. I feel completely justified to be on a high horse when I speak about the kind of modern men who crucify and bury children alive.
    Oh, good grief, why didn’t Obama mentioned how we use to burn witches in Salem? There’s some white-guilt for ya.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As does this Christian. And even if I were writing about another's deity, I would show them a like respect. Since LS is an atheist, I feel no such compunction, nor do I see the lack of capitalization as a slight, since there could be none of one who does not believe in a deity.

    This was my attempt to tweak LS's nose a bit on her continued use of verbiage that she knows is offensive to some. Just as I wouldn't use the N-word, or kike (funny how the N-word has such a connotation to it that we cannot even use it in reference, but derogatory terms for others is accepted), or slant-eye, or even gringo (also funny how so many non-Hispanics don't understand that is a derogatory term) just out of politeness, it seems that the atheists here (and everywhere, it seems) have no such reluctance to show their impoliteness merely because they don't agree with others. I choose to be polite.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe, kh... I actually thinking you are being fairly generous. He brought up the Crusades at our National Prayer breakfast just two days after ISSI released a video condemning Crusaders as they they burned the Syrian pilot alive. Similar language by accident? By ineptness? I’m thinking: dog-whistles. His remarks were purposely demoralizing and will be used as a recruiting tool by our enemy.
    I don’t need any more prove. Obama, or at least, his speech writer is a traitor.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years, 3 months ago
    I'm trying to justify the tenets of the First Amendment with a Prayer Breakfast. Apparently that portion of the Presidential Oath has not yet been visited by the Supreme Court. Not that it isn't true - just incomplete. Of the nine monotheistic religions it applies to some extent to all but one. A classic example of a lesser of two evils set which upon examination means support of one, the other, or all eight only makes the speech maker a supporter of evil. /Red Herring! Get behind me.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We need to be careful what we ask for: Obama's last plan was to fund, and initiate, the fall of Muammar Gaddafi...who kept Iraq's radical Islamists in check. Remember Hillary laughing, "we came, we saw, he died !".
    The void we created has now been filled by ISIS....
    I shudder to think what Obama's next pratfall will be.
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