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This guy never misses an opportunity to lecture christians on their shortcomings as he seems to hold christians to a standard of perfection but, when it comes to less than loving Muslims, he simply refuses to acknowledge they're Muslim thus, from all appearances, giving them a pass.

As far as his disagreements go, I haven't seen him show republicans mush respect nor have I seen him do much to defend the oppressed christians in the ME.

“Where there is injustice, we defend the oppressed,” he said. “Where there is disagreement, we treat each other with compassion and respect.” :-\

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/238064-obama-concerned-by-less-than-loving-christians

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Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth -- our job is to be true to Him, His word, and His commandments. And we should assume humbly that we’re confused and don’t always know what we’re doing and we’re staggering and stumbling towards Him, and have some humility in that process. And that means we have to speak up against those who would misuse His name to justify oppression, or violence, or hatred with that fierce certainty. No God condones terror. No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives, or the oppression of those who are weaker or fewer in number.

And so, as people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those who try to distort our religion -- any religion -- for their own nihilistic ends. And here at home and around the world, we will constantly reaffirm that fundamental freedom -- freedom of religion -- the right to practice our faith how we choose, to change our faith if we choose, to practice no faith at all if we choose, and to do so free of persecution and fear and discrimination.

There’s wisdom in our founders writing in those documents that help found this nation the notion of freedom of religion, because they understood the need for humility. They also understood the need to uphold freedom of speech, that there was a connection between freedom of speech and freedom of religion. For to infringe on one right under the pretext of protecting another is a betrayal of both.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/05/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast

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From AUUSN's link:

From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith, professed to stand up for Islam, but, in fact, are betraying it. We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism -- terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war, and claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions.

Tell me again how the President never takes self-proclaimed 'Muslims' to task for their offenses...? <_<

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Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth -- our job is to be true to Him, His word, and His commandments. And we should assume humbly that we’re confused and don’t always know what we’re doing and we’re staggering and stumbling towards Him, and have some humility in that process. And that means we have to speak up against those who would misuse His name to justify oppression, or violence, or hatred with that fierce certainty. No God condones terror. No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives, or the oppression of those who are weaker or fewer in number.

And so, as people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those who try to distort our religion -- any religion -- for their own nihilistic ends. And here at home and around the world, we will constantly reaffirm that fundamental freedom -- freedom of religion -- the right to practice our faith how we choose, to change our faith if we choose, to practice no faith at all if we choose, and to do so free of persecution and fear and discrimination.

There’s wisdom in our founders writing in those documents that help found this nation the notion of freedom of religion, because they understood the need for humility. They also understood the need to uphold freedom of speech, that there was a connection between freedom of speech and freedom of religion. For to infringe on one right under the pretext of protecting another is a betrayal of both.

https://www.whitehou...rayer-breakfast

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Very Well Said!

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Yeah, yeah,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

barry sux. He hates Christians. He hates America. He aint like us good people.

He isn't .

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Meanwhile , our former masters...

David Cameron declares: ‘Britain is still a Christian country’

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More pandering to his leftist atheist base...

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Seems rather "politically convenient" coming from you, Raptor. All too happy to USE the Christians when it serves your purposes?

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More pandering to his leftist atheist base...

Fixed

Seems rather "politically convenient" coming from you, Raptor. All too happy to USE the Christians when it serves your purposes?

If it bothers you, then awesome !

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More pandering to his leftist atheist base...

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Seems rather "politically convenient" coming from you, Raptor. All too happy to USE the Christians when it serves your purposes?

If it bothers you, then awesome !

I second that Raptor. Ole itchy is all too eager to make pathetic parodies of others for what seems like no reason at all. He doesn't seem to have a purpose here other than trolling posters he doesn't agree with.

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More pandering to his leftist atheist base...

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Seems rather "politically convenient" coming from you, Raptor. All too happy to USE the Christians when it serves your purposes?

Yup. Pretty convenient to "use" Christians when the discussion is concerning Christians. That is not "using" at all. That is discussing the leftist attack on Christians. Gonna have to do better than that.

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More pandering to his leftist atheist base...

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Seems rather "politically convenient" coming from you, Raptor. All too happy to USE the Christians when it serves your purposes?

Yup. Pretty convenient to "use" Christians when the discussion is concerning Christians. That is not "using" at all. That is discussing the leftist attack on Christians. Gonna have to do better than that.

Who exactly are the "leftists" and, how are they attacking Christianity?

A self-proclaimed atheist, proclaiming the political left is defined by atheism, doesn't seem strange to you?

If you wish to embrace this new form of McCarthyism and, cast the liberals as the "communists", that is fine. However, I would caution using Christ in this endeavor. I would also suggest a cursory review of 20th century politics.

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The thing about McCarthyism that the media and the left wants everyone to forget is that during the 50s and 60s there were indeed Communist sympathizers in many high positions in society AND the govt. That the methodology became over zealous is easily criticized but, quite frankly, I'd much rather be on the side of the over zealous when it comes to protecting traditional values that made America great.

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The thing about McCarthyism that the media and the left wants everyone to forget is that during the 50s and 60s there were indeed Communist sympathizers in many high positions in society AND the govt. That the methodology became over zealous is easily criticized but, quite frankly, I'd much rather be on the side of the over zealous when it comes to protecting traditional values that made America great.

The communists and the American left have a lot in common. The left tends to forget that one of their prime targets was Hollywood. Looks like they succeeded. Wasn't quite how they planned but it worked nonetheless.
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Feared based politics always requires a "boogeyman". Better go buy some guns, ammo, MREs, insurance, alarm systems, gold. The leftist boogeyman is coming to get all the decent folks! I done hered it on the Rush program today.

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More pandering to his leftist atheist base...

Fixed

Seems rather "politically convenient" coming from you, Raptor. All too happy to USE the Christians when it serves your purposes?

Yup. Pretty convenient to "use" Christians when the discussion is concerning Christians. That is not "using" at all. That is discussing the leftist attack on Christians. Gonna have to do better than that.

Who exactly are the "leftists" and, how are they attacking Christianity?

A self-proclaimed atheist, proclaiming the political left is defined by atheism, doesn't seem strange to you?

If you wish to embrace this new form of McCarthyism and, cast the liberals as the "communists", that is fine. However, I would caution using Christ in this endeavor. I would also suggest a cursory review of 20th century politics.

Nobody is using Christ. Apparently you think standing up for Christianity is using Christ for political gain. I agree the recent comments from obama aren't an actual attack, but it is very frustrating watching the leader of the "free" world refuse to acknowledge that Islamic extremism exists while taking pot shots at Christianity. As for the real attack....

1. Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith:

December 2009-Present - The annual White House Christmas cards, rather than focusing on Christmas or faith, instead highlight things such as the family dogs. And the White House Christmas tree ornaments include figures such as Mao Tse-Tung and a drag queen. [1]

June 2013 – The Obama Department of Justice defunds a Young Marines chapter in Louisiana because their oath mentioned God, and another youth program because it permits a voluntary student-led prayer. [2]

February 2013 – The Obama Administration announces that the rights of religious conscience for individuals will not be protected under the Affordable Care Act. [3]

January 2013 – Pastor Louie Giglio is pressured to remove himself from praying at the inauguration after it is discovered he once preached a sermon supporting the Biblical definition of marriage. [4]

February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion. [5]

January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis. [6]

December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries' religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. [7]

November 2011 – President Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. [8]

November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech. [9]

August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception. [10]

April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring. [11]

February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress. [12]

January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court. [13]

November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal law. [14]

October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about “the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions. [15]

May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. [16]

April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his speech. [17]

April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three. [18]

February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011. [19]

April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who aren't like them.” [20]

2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of Biblical faith:

June 2014 - Official U. S. government personnel, both civilian and military, in Bahrain (a small Arabic nation near Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran) must wear clothing that facilitates the religious observance of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.​ [21]

March 2014 - ​Maxell Air Force Base suddenly bans Gideons from handing out Bibles to willing recruits, a practice that had been occurring for years previously. [22]

December 2013 - A naval facility required that two nativity scenes -- scenes depicting the event that caused Christmas to be declared a national federal holiday -- be removed from the base dining hall and be confined to the base chapel, thus disallowing the open public acknowledgment of this national federal holiday. [23]

December 2013 - An Air Force base that allowed various public displays ordered the removal of one simply because it contained religious content. [24]

October 2013 – A counter-intelligence briefing at Fort Hood tells soldiers that evangelical Christians are a threat to Americans and that for a soldier to donate to such a group “was punishable under military regulations.” [25]

October 2013 – Catholic priests hired to serve as military chaplains are prohibited from performing Mass services at base chapels during the government financial shutdown. When they offered to freely do Mass for soldiers, without regard to whether or not the chaplains were receiving pay, they are still denied permission to do so. [26]

October 2013 - The Air Force Academy, in response to a complaint from Mikey Weinstein's Military Religious Freedom Foundation, makes "so help me God" optional in cadets' honor oath. [27]

August 2013 - A Department of Defense military training manual teaches soldiers that people who talk about "individual liberties, states' rights, and how to make the world a better place" are "extremists." It also lists the Founding Fathers -- those "colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule" -- as examples of those involved in "extremist ideologies and movements." [28]

August 2013 - A Senior Master Sergeant was removed from his position and reassigned because he told his openly lesbian squadron commander that she should not punish a staff sergeant who expressed his views in favor of traditional marriage. [29]

August 2013 - The military does not provide heterosexual couples specific paid leave to travel to a state just for the purpose of being married, but it did extend these benefits to homosexual couples who want to marry, thus giving them preferential treatment not available to heterosexuals. [30]

August 2013 - The Air Force, in the midst of having launched a series of attacks against those expressing traditional religious or moral views, invited a drag queen group to perform at a base. [31]

July 2013 - When an Air Force sergeant with years of military service questioned a same-sex marriage ceremony performed at the Air Force Academy's chapel, he received a letter of reprimand telling him that if he disagreed, he needed to get out of the military. His current six-year reenlistment was then reduced to only one-year, with the notification that he "be prepared to retire at the end of this year." [32]

July 2013 - An Air Force chaplain who posted a website article on the importance of faith and the origin of the phrase "There are no atheists in foxholes" was officially ordered to remove his post because some were offended by the use of that famous World War II phrase. [33]

June 2013 - The U. S. Air Force, in consultation with the Pentagon, removed an inspirational painting that for years has been hanging at Mountain Home Air Force Base because its title was "Blessed Are The Peacemakers" -- a phrase from Matthew 5:9 in the Bible. [34]

June 2013 – The Obama administration “strongly objects” to a Defense Authorization amendment to protect the constitutionally-guaranteed religious rights of soldiers and chaplains, claiming that it would have an “adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale, and mission accomplishment.” [35]

June 2013 – At a joint base in New Jersey, a video was made, based on a Super Bowl commercial, to honor First Sergeants. It stated: “On the eighth day, God looked down on His creation and said, ‘I need someone who will take care of the Airmen.’ So God created a First Sergeant.” Because the video mentioned the word “God,” the Air Force required that it be taken down. [36]

June 2013 – An Army Master Sergeant is reprimanded, threatened with judicial action, and given a bad efficiency report, being told he was “no longer a team player,” because he voiced his support of traditional marriage at his own promotion party. [37]

May 2013 - The Pentagon announces that "Air Force members are free to express their personal religious beliefs as long as it does not make others uncomfortable. "Proselytizing (inducing someone to convert to one's faith) goes over that line," [38] affirming if a sharing of faith makes someone feel uncomfortable that it could be a court-marital offense [39] -- the military equivalent of a civil felony.

May 2013 - An Air Force officer was actually made to remove a personal Bible from his own desk because it "might" appear that he was condoning the particular religion to which he belonged. [40]

April 2013 – Officials briefing U.S. Army soldiers placed "Evangelical Christianity" and "Catholicism" in a list that also included Al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas as examples of "religious extremism." [41]

April 2013 – The U.S. Army directs troops to scratch off and paint over tiny Scripture verse references that for decades had been forged into weapon scopes. [42]

April 2013 - The Air Force creates a "religious tolerance" policy but consults only a militant atheist group to do so -- a group whose leader has described military personnel who are religious as 'spiritual rapists' and 'human monsters' [43] and who also says that soldiers who proselytize are guilty of treason and sedition and should be punished to hold back a "tidal wave of fundamentalists." [44]

January 2013 – President Obama announced his opposition to a provision in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act protecting the rights of conscience for military chaplains. [45]

June 2012 – Bibles for the American military have been printed in every conflict since the American Revolution, but the Obama Administration revokes the long-standing U. S. policy of allowing military service emblems to be placed on those military Bibles. [46]

May 2012 – The Obama administration opposed legislation to protect the rights of conscience for military chaplains who do not wish to perform same-sex marriages in violation of their strongly-held religious beliefs. [47]

April 2012 – A checklist for Air Force Inns will no longer include ensuring that a Bible is available in rooms for those who want to use them. [48]

February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian. [49]

February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei). [50]

February 2012 – The Army ordered Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read. [51]

November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity. [52]

November 2011 – President Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. [53]

November 2011 – Even while restricting and disapprobating Christian religious expressions, the Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans at the Air Force Academy. [54]

September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains. [55]

September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.” [56]

August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except now, America). [57]

June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. [58]

January 2010 – Because of "concerns" raised by the Department of Defense, tiny Bible verse references that had appeared for decades on scopes and gunsights were removed. [59]

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The thing about McCarthyism that the media and the left wants everyone to forget is that during the 50s and 60s there were indeed Communist sympathizers in many high positions in society AND the govt. That the methodology became over zealous is easily criticized but, quite frankly, I'd much rather be on the side of the over zealous when it comes to protecting traditional values that made America great.

The communists and the American left have a lot in common. The left tends to forget that one of their prime targets was Hollywood. Looks like they succeeded. Wasn't quite how they planned but it worked nonetheless.

Them Hollywood types aint never practiced capitalism. They aint about the money. They just tryin to in docter in ate the young folks. That their is why I dont go to none them movies.

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Meanwhile , our former masters...

David Cameron declares: ‘Britain is still a Christian country’

God bless Himm!!!
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The thing about McCarthyism that the media and the left wants everyone to forget is that during the 50s and 60s there were indeed Communist sympathizers in many high positions in society AND the govt. That the methodology became over zealous is easily criticized but, quite frankly, I'd much rather be on the side of the over zealous when it comes to protecting traditional values that made America great.

The communists and the American left have a lot in common. The left tends to forget that one of their prime targets was Hollywood. Looks like they succeeded. Wasn't quite how they planned but it worked nonetheless.

Them Hollywood types aint never practiced capitalism. They aint about the money. They just tryin to in docter in ate the young folks. That their is why I dont go to none them movies.

Good Lord! Seems there is no end in sight to this redundant idiocy. Itchy, read the Crucible by Arthur Miller. You'd learn something about how the media made the truth tellers into paranoid delusional liars and the liars are made into heroes during the McCarthy era.

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The thing about McCarthyism that the media and the left wants everyone to forget is that during the 50s and 60s there were indeed Communist sympathizers in many high positions in society AND the govt. That the methodology became over zealous is easily criticized but, quite frankly, I'd much rather be on the side of the over zealous when it comes to protecting traditional values that made America great.

The communists and the American left have a lot in common. The left tends to forget that one of their prime targets was Hollywood. Looks like they succeeded. Wasn't quite how they planned but it worked nonetheless.

Them Hollywood types aint never practiced capitalism. They aint about the money. They just tryin to in docter in ate the young folks. That their is why I dont go to none them movies.

Good Lord! Seems there is no end in sight to this redundant idiocy.

why do you think I put him on ignore. I'd suggest you do the same. If nobody quoted him I wouldn't ever have to read his nonsense.
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