http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/08/1363143/-Wow-David-Brooks-passionately-defends-President-Obama-s-National-Prayer-Breakfast-statements?detail=email
David Brooks must be given kudos for getting it right. He went against the Right Wing grain as well as against rather elitist comments from journalists Andrea Mitchell and Jon Meacham.
Jon Meacham claimed that within Christianity, the Crusades was an exception to the rule. This illustrates how one can change a narrative when the context is kept limited in scope for a self-serving purpose. As noted in my previous post "This Obama speech put fear into Right Wing Evangelical Leaders,"
The President was rather kind by not articulating the fact that similar heinous behavior in our country is less than just a few centuries and decades past. Isolated heinous acts are less than a few months in our past.
Andrea Mitchell's comment was simply ludicrous. She does not believe the prayer breakfast is a place to speak truth. "You don't use the word Crusade in any context right now. It's too fraught," Andrea Mitchell said. "And the week after a pilot is burned alive and a video shown, you don't lean over backward to be philosophical about the sins of the fathers. You have to deal with issues that are in front of you or don't deal with it at all." In other words ignore the sins that indirectly impact or have impacted all that is occurring in the world.is Andrea's time coming?
Jon Meachem does seem to believe that atrocities in the name of Christ ended with the Crusades. He forgot the savagery Christianity inflicted on Native Americans from the tip of South America, the Caribbean, Central America, to North America. He forgot that African slaves throughout the America's were murdered, lynched, burned, and beheaded, many of these acts justified by religion. He forgot that while some did these bad deeds in the name of Christ, most Christians remained quiet.
Yet, many Americans now want to condemn Islam because many of its members seem to be just as quiet as Christians still are for many still occurring injustices in America and abroad.
isn't that two faced condemn others but not yourself that's like republicans accusing Pres. of doing what they do but not mentioning they are the ones really doing it, hmmmm maybe that's were tis denial of complicity comes from what went on with great great great Grandaddy stays in the trunk in the attic and never shall they speak of it but are these "CHRISTIANS" are they not remembering their Bible or are they ignoring theses verses?
The President's speech was about humility. It was about ALL humans being fallible. As such we should all get of the high horses and work together to bring us all together for a better nation, for a better world.
maybe that is what we should take from this instead of the image of the finger being pointed in our minds. silence is a license for one to take it as okay
