Charles Krauthammer on Obama's Prayer Breakfast Lecture to Christians

By Eddie Howell

At the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, February 5, the President Obama's remarks included criticism of “ISIL,” but also the following:

Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.

In response,columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer on Fox's Hannity gave a brief and accurate analysis of President Obama's recent prayer breakfast comments.

The president lectured on the past evils of Christianity, i.e., the Crusades and the Inquisition, seeming to make a moral equivalence to the barbaric atrocities now committed daily by jihadist Muslims, including the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot. Never mind that the bad things he referred to about Christians took place centuries ago. In the president's outlook, terrorism and barbaric practices must not in any way be associated with Islam. In other words, let's not live in the world of reality about this. For Obama, the Newspeak Dictionary does not allow that kind of thinking because the required words have been removed.

This is just one more incident of Obama's reckless and ill-advised polices, by which he insults the American people and our allies (Netanyahu, for example) and is very timid about criticizing any aspect of Islamic terror without comparing it to Christianity. It is jihadist Muslims who are burning churches and killing Christians in several countries. It is not the other way around. Many Muslims oppose this behavior, and some leaders are speaking out, but we don't hear many Muslim clerics complaining about it. In fact, they and their radical followers are up in arms (sometimes literally) about “Islamophobia” if anyone mentions something negative about Islam or if authorities don't go out of their way to accommodate their wishes. Fortunately, most Americans of all faiths reject senseless violence.

I might add that Obama, who claims to be a Christian, has championed the sins of Romans 1 as his party's political platform, as pointed out not long ago by a prominent preacher.

Further reading I recommend: “Obama Newsflash: Terrorism Has NOTHING To Do With Islam, Folks. But, Hey, Let’s Blame Christianity For Crusades A THOUSAND Years Ago” at Michael Eden's Start ThinkingRight blog. 

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Obama’s Victory: A Lost Opportunity and a Failure of Citizenship

Disappointment is hardly the word to describe my opinion of the presidential election result. There is truth in The Patriot Post’s cartoon.

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Have we reached the point where Americans will vote for “free stuff” without regard to the condition of our country? The liberal establishment promotes the entitlement mindset, which conservatives have not succeeded in countering. The schools reinforce the virtues of big government, and the media promotes the decay of morality while they cover up for Obama’s failures. The liberals downplay the seriousness of America’s economic problems, and never mention the dangers facing the dollar. We need not puzzle too much over the lost opportunity of a good chance we had of avoiding fiscal collapse. We just need to face reality.

This is a situation that, in my view, a Christian has to realize, is ultimately in God’s hands. As I try to look at this from an evangelical orthodox Christian standpoint, several aspects of it come to mind.

 1. In view of recent history, the Obama Administration’s policies are evidence that God’s punitive judgment is upon America for serious and worsening sin. That does not mean that everyone who suffers under God’s judgment of a nation is guilty; the innocent suffer as a result of the sins of the guilty (case in point: babies murdered by abortion). The Sandy superstorm seems to put an exclamation point on the ongoing judgment of America.

2. As John MacArthur has pointed out, one of our major political parties has adopted the sins of Romans 1 as its political platform [1]. MacArthur didn’t say “Democrats” but his meaning is evident. To emphasize their anti-moral attitude, they avoided a convention decision to remove the last mention of God from their party platform (a reference to God-given abilities), by falsely declaring that the group voted by over two-thirds majority to retain the reference. If you think Democrats can’t do any voter fraud, they did in their convention.

3. It is extremely unlikely that anything substantial will be done to reduce the deficits or to slow spending. Taxmageddon will arrive. As Mark Steyn points out, Congress will reach a triumphant “bipartisan” agreement to postpone Taxmageddon for a short while, and also increase the debt ceiling, but these postponements will only make the final result worse.

4. Obama and his minions will continue to chip away at our freedoms with increased fervor, with no one to stop them. Economy-killing regulations, arbitrary restrictions, and executive decrees will rule the day, and the Constitution will suffer even more. The Supreme Court will undermine it still more with new liberal justices, worsening the already unreliable Court.

In terms of what can be done politically to resist any of this, I propose the following, but also think it is likely that little or none of it will be done:

1. Remove House Speaker John Boehner and replace him with a conservative. Or else put plenty of Tea Party pressure on him to not give in to Obama on Obamacare or anything else.

2. Hold a tight grip on the purse strings and don’t be afraid to shut down the government.

3. Do not raise taxes; defund Obamacare and the EPA.

4. Mainly, cut spending. Don’t compromise. Don’t be afraid of gridlock. It’s better than enacting Obama’s agenda.

5. Encourage state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws.

6. Don’t compromise conservative principles.

We lost the election and we will live with the consequences, but we don’t have to give up the fight. A great deal of damage will be done in the next four years, but four years is not forever. Don’t be too anxious to “work with” liberals. The objective should be to defeat them. Those are my suggestions politically.

Politics can’t solve all our problems. In the larger sense, Christians should pray for America and her leaders that God will move them to change the course we’ve been on. However, unless America experiences a strong spiritual revival, it seems we are destined for some very serious troubles in the next few years, which may or may not ever be corrected in this life. The bright side of this is that God still is in control, and we must trust in Him, knowing that eternity awaits, and that He will ultimately make things right.

Christians, pray for America and pray for revival.

[1] John MacArthur, “The Campaign for Immorality,” Decision, November 2011. Published by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Charlotte, NC.

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