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Obama At National Prayer Breakfast: ’People Committed Terrible Deeds In The Name of Christ’
Breitbart ^ | 02/05/2015 | by Charlie Spiering

Posted on 02/05/2015 7:34:28 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

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To: Responsibility2nd

It may not be very Christian of me, but I would love to punch him in the face.


61 posted on 02/05/2015 8:15:09 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: MNlurker

America was established to end theocratic rule (no official State religion). European nations flipped from Catholic to Protestant, back and forth with succeeding governance.

Islam still is a theocratic system of rule. Saudi Arabia (the capital of Islam) tolerates no other faith.

Barry is a mohammedian sucking stooge.


62 posted on 02/05/2015 8:19:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Responsibility2nd
“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,”

And that makes it all okay now, doesn't it, Mr. President?

63 posted on 02/05/2015 8:22:57 AM PST by NTegraT (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Deo volente

Great point!


64 posted on 02/05/2015 8:24:19 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: WayneS

And I might ask, the people of which religion practice slavery today?

Would that be Muslims or Christians?


65 posted on 02/05/2015 8:26:00 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: Responsibility2nd; P-Marlowe
Obama said: “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

Actually, slavery and Jim Crow were justified by Democrats.

It was the abolitionists who, due to their Christian faith, preached against slavery. John Wesley, great Christian evangelist, a hundred plus years before, was the moral voice behind Great Britain's criminalization of the slave trade and the impetus pushing William Wilberforce.

Wesley was inspired to join the anti-slavery movement when he read a pamphlet by Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet. He was so moved that he frequently preached against the slave trade and authored "Thoughts upon Slavery"—a pamphlet publicly decrying the practice. Wesley’s last letter was written to convert and fellow abolitionist William Wilberforce. In it he wrote:

“O be not weary of well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of his might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it.”

This letter was written in 1791, and sixteen years later Parliament finally outlawed England’s participation in the slave trade.

https://blog.logos.com/2011/06/5-interesting-facts-about-john-wesley/ .
66 posted on 02/05/2015 8:26:55 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

FUBO!!


67 posted on 02/05/2015 8:27:32 AM PST by Batman11 (The orange, weeping, drunk, squishy oompah-loompah and Yertle McTurd-le gotta go!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Some reporter should ask him, Mr. President do you believe that two wrongs make a right? Because that what your statement sounds like.
68 posted on 02/05/2015 8:29:56 AM PST by McGruff (Haters Gonna Hate)
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To: Responsibility2nd

In which century is Obama living?


69 posted on 02/05/2015 8:30:13 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Responsibility2nd

Typical Marxist, Using Moral Equivalence on Christianity to justify horrific actions by a favored group known as Islam.


70 posted on 02/05/2015 8:31:03 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yeah jackass, we did do all those things. ,,, before the invention of the lightbulb. In this day and age only moslems do that.


71 posted on 02/05/2015 8:31:08 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: goldstategop

Hey Obama, Christians and Jews had their own series of reformations CENTURIES AGO.

WHAT IS ISLAM’s EXCUSE?


72 posted on 02/05/2015 8:33:10 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Responsibility2nd
FuBO, you stinking muzzy bastard!!

Not a very Christian statement on my part, but covers my feelings best.

73 posted on 02/05/2015 8:34:17 AM PST by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: jimpick

[ Only a couple thousand died in the inquisitions. And that was over several hundred years. Not even close to what Muslims do. ]

yup and the Spaniards did FAR WORSE in the Americas than the British colonialists did in the ENTIRE Western HEMISPHERE. But who gets the blame for atrocities from 1492-2000...... The United States....

Yeah, I really LOATH this Commie Hypocrisy..


74 posted on 02/05/2015 8:36:55 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Responsibility2nd; LucyT

Now I understand why Obamadulla called moslem leaders to the White House yesterday.

Christian bashing talking points for today’s National Prayer Breakfast were assigned. Immolation bad....but man those Crusades....

spit.


75 posted on 02/05/2015 8:41:24 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Responsibility2nd
Relate article UK Daily

Obama FINALLY acknowledges ISIS is linked to 'Islam' – then compares it to the Crusades, the Spanish inquisition and American slavery 

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No, he didn't just use the race card again did he? Unbelievable..... I guess that's his political get out of jail free card

ISIS knows they've got Barack's spineless back for support

76 posted on 02/05/2015 8:45:55 AM PST by opentalk
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77 posted on 02/05/2015 8:46:02 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Nachum
Uncorrected transcript compiled from the closed captioning on the C-Span broadcast:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?324188-1/2015-national-prayer-breakfast

MAY BE THE FIRST, BUT GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. AND SO I WANT TO THANK DARRELL FOR THAT WONDERFUL PRESENTATION. DARRELL KNOWS THAT WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR, A LITTLE PRAYER CANNOT HURT. I SUSPECT THAT MORE THAN ONCE DARRELL HAS HAD THE SAME THOUGHT AS MANY OF US HAVE HAD IN OUR OWN LIVES. JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL. [LAUGHTER] ALTHOUGH I HOPE THAT YOU KEPT YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL WHEN YOU WERE THINKING THAT. [LAUGHTER] HE AND I OBVIOUSLY SURE SOMETHING IN HAVING MARRIED UP, AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO STEVIE FOR THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE TOGETHER TO BUILD A MINISTRY WHERE THE FASTEST DRIVERS CAN SLOW DOWN A LITTLE BIT AND SPEND SOME TIME IN PRAYER AND REFLECTION AND THANKS. AND WE CERTAINLY WANT TO WISH DARRELL A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. SO -- [APPLAUSE] HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I WILL NOTE AGO, AGO, DARRELL CAN WHEN YOU'RE READING THAT LIST OF THINGS FOLKS ARE SAYING ABOUT YOU, YOU KNOW, I WAS SAYING YOU'RE A BIKER. [LAUGHTER] -- PIKER. IF YOU REALLY WANT A LIST, TALK TO ME. [LAUGHTER] BECAUSE THAT AIN'T NOTHING.

THAT'S THE BEST THEY CAN DO AT NASCAR? SLOWING DOWN AND PAUSING FOR FELLOWSHIP AND PRAYER, THAT'S WHAT THIS BREAKFAST IS ABOUT. I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY WASHINGTON MOVES A LOT SLOWER THAN NASCAR. CERTAINLY MY AGENDA DOES SOMETIMES. BUT STILL IT'S EASIER TO GET CAUGHT UP IN THE RUSH OF OUR LIVES AND THEN THE POLITICAL BACK AND FORTH BACK AND CAN TAKE OVER THIS CITY. AND WE GET SIDETRACKED WITH DISTRACTIONS, LARGE AND SMALL. WE CAN'T GO 10 MINUTES WITHOUT CHECKING OUR SMART PHONES. FOR MY STAFF THAT'S EVERY 10 SECONDS.

AND SO FOR 63 YEARS THIS PRAYER TRADITION HAS BROUGHT US TOGETHER, GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TOGETHER IN HUMILITY BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY. REMINDS US WHAT IT IS WE SURE AS CHILDREN OF GOD. AND CERTAINLY FOR ME THIS IS ALWAYS THE CHANCE TO REFLECT ON MY OWN FAITH JOURNEY.

MANY TIMES AS PRESIDENT I'VE BEEN REMINDED OF A LINE OF PRAYER THAT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WAS FUN THOUGH. SHE SAID, KEEP US AT TASK TOO HARD FOR US THAT WE MAY BE DRIVEN TO BE FOR STRENGTH. KEEP US AT TASK TOO HARD FOR US THAT WE MAY BE DRIVEN TO BE FOR STRENGTH.

I'VE WONDERED AT TIMES IF MAYBE GOD WAS ANSWERING THAT PRAYER A LITTLE TOO LITERALLY, BUT NO MATTER THE CHALLENGE, HE HAS BEEN THERE. FOR ALL OF US. HE CERTAINLY STRENGTHEN ME WITH THE POWER THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, AS I SAW HIS GUIDANCE, NOT JUST IN MY OWN LIFE BUT IN THE LIFE OF OUR NATION.

NOW, OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS WE HAVE SEEN A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES, CERTAINLY OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS, BUT PART OF WHAT I WANT TO TOUCH ON TODAY IS THE DEGREE TO WHICH WE HAVE SEEN PROFESSIONS OF FAITH USED BOTH AS AN INSTRUMENT OF GREAT GOOD, BUT ALSO TWISTED AND MISUSED IN THE NAME OF EVIL.

AS WE SPEAK AROUND THE WORLD, WE SEE FAITH INSPIRING PEOPLE TO LIFT UP ONE ANOTHER, FEED THE HUNGRY, CARE FOR THE POOR AND COMFORT THE AFFLICTED AND MAKE PEACE WHERE THERE IS STRIFE. WE HEARD THE GOOD WORK THE SISTER HAS DONE IN PHILADELPHIA, THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT DR. BRANTLY AND HIS COLLEAGUES HAVE DONE. WE SEE FAITH DRIVING US TO BE RIGHT -- TO DO RIGHT WE ALSO SEE FAITH BEING TWISTED AND DISTORTED, USED AS A WEDGE, OR WORSE, SOMETIMES USED AS A WEAPON.

FROM A SCHOOL IN PAKISTAN TO THE STREETS OF PARIS, WE HAVE SEEN VIOLENCE AND TERRORISTS PERPETRATED BY THOSE WHO PROFESS TO STAND FOR FAITH, THEIR FAITH. PROFESSED TO STAND UP FOR ISLAM BUT, IN FACT, ARE BETRAYING IT.

WE SEE ISIL, BRUTAL, VICIOUS DIFFICULT THAT IN THE NAME OF RELIGION CARRIES OUT UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF BARBARISM. CARE RISING RELIGIOUS MINORITIES LIKE THE YAZIDIS COME SUBJECTING WOMEN TO RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR AND CLAIMING A MANTLE OF RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY FOR SUCH ACTIONS.

WE SEE SECTARIAN WAR IN SYRIA, THE MURDER OF MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA, RELIGIOUS WAR AND THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC ARISING SIGNS OF HATE CRIMES IN EUROPE. SO OFTEN PERPETRATED IN THE NAME OF RELIGION.

AND SO HOW DO WE AS PEOPLE OF FAITH RECONCILE THESE REALITIES? THE PROFOUND GOOD, THE STRENGTH, THE TENACITY, THE COMPASSION AND LOVE, THAT CAN FLOW FROM ALL OF OUR FAITHS, OPERATING ALONGSIDE OF THOSE WHO SEEK TO HIJACK RELIGION FOR THEIR OWN MURDEROUS ENDS.

HUMANITY HAS BEEN GRAPPLING WITH THESE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY, AND UNLESS WE GET ON OUR HIGH HORSE AND THINK THAT 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 OUR HOME COUNTRY, SLAVERY AND JIM CROW ALL TOO OFTEN WAS JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF CHRIST.

MICHELLE AND I'VE RETURNED FROM INDIA, AND INCREDIBLE, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY FULL OF THIS MAGNIFICENT DIVERSITY, BUT A PLACE WHERE INVESTORS RELIGIOUS FAITHS OF ALL TYPE ON OCCASION HAD BEEN TARGETED BY OTHER PEOPLES OF FAITH, SIMPLY DUE TO THEIR HERITAGE AND THEIR BELIEFS, ACTS OF INTOLERANCE THAT WOULD HAVE SHOCKED GANDHI, THE PERSON WHO HELPED LIBERATE THE NATION.

IT'S NOT UNIQUE TO ONE GROUP OR ONE RELIGION. THERE'S A TENDENCY IN US, A SIMPLE TENDENCY THAT CAN PERVERT AND DISTORT OUR FAITH.

IN TODAY'S WORLD WHEN HATE GROUPS HAVE THEIR OWN TWITTER ACCOUNTS AND BIGOTRY CAN FESTER IN HIDDEN PLACES IN CYBERSPACE, IT CAN BE EVEN HARDER TO COUNTERACT SUCH INTOLERANCE.

GOD COMPELS US TO TRY. AND IN THIS NATION I BELIEVE THERE ARE A FEW PRINCIPLES THAT CAN GUIDE US -- MISSION -- PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO PROFESS BELIEF.

AND FIRST WE SHOULD START WITH SOME RECENT HUMILITY. I BELIEVE THAT THE STARTING POINT OF FAITH IS SOME DOUBT. NOT BEING SO FULL OF YOURSELF AND SO CONFIDENT THAT YOU ARE RIGHT AND THAT GOD SPEAKS ONLY TO US AND DOESN'T SPEAK TO OTHERS, THAT GOD ONLY CARES ABOUT US AND DOESN'T CARE ABOUT OTHERS, THAT SOMEHOW WE ALONE ARE IN POSSESSION OF THE TRUTH. OUR JOB IS NOT TO ASK THAT GOD RESPOND TO OUR NOTION. OUR JOB IS TO BE TRUE TO HIM AND HIS WORD AND HIS COMMANDMENTS, AND WE SHOULD ASSUME HUMBLY THAT WE ARE CONFUSED AND DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING.

WE ARE STAGGERING AND STUMBLING TOWARDS HIM, AND HAVE SOME HUMILITY IN THAT PROCESS. AND THAT MEANS WE ARE TO SPEAK UP AGAINST THOSE WHO WOULD MISUSE HIS NAME TO JUSTIFY OPPRESSION OR VIOLENT OR HATRED WITH THAT FIERCE CERTAINTY. NO GOD KNOWS THEY ARE, NO JUSTIFIES THE TAKING OF INNOCENT LIVES, OR THE OPERATION 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. IN AIN THE RELIGION, FOR THEIR OWN A NIHILISTIC ENDS. HERE AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD WE WILL CONSTANTLY REAFFIRM THAT, THAT FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, THE RIGHT TO PRACTICE OUR FAITH, HOW WE CHOOSE TO CHANGE OUR FAITH IT WHICH IS, TO PRACTICE NO FAITH AT ALL IF WE CHOOSE.

AND TO DO SO FREE OF PERSECUTION IN FEAR AND DISCRIMINATION. THERE IS WISDOM IN OUR FOUNDERS, WRITING IN THOSE DOCUMENTS THAT HELPED FOUND THIS NATION, THE NOTION OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION. BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THE NEED FOR HUMILITY. THEY ALSO UNDERSTOOD THE NEED TO UPHOLD THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THAT THERE WAS A CONNECTION BETWEEN FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION, TO INFRINGE ON ONE RIGHT UNDER ONE IS THE BETRAYAL OF BOTH.

BUT PART OF HUMILITY IS ALSO RECOGNIZING IN MODERN, COMPLICATED, DIVERSE SOCIETIES THE FUNCTIONING OF THESE RIGHTS, THE CONCERN FOR THE PROTECTION OF THESE RIGHTS CALLS FOR EACH OF US TO EXERCISE STABILITY AND RESTRAINT AND JUDGMENT.

AND IF, IN FACT, WE DEFEND THE LEGAL RIGHT OF A PERSON TO INSULT ANOTHER'S RELIGION, WE ARE EQUALLY OBLIGATED TO USE OUR FREE SPEECH TO CONDEMN SUCH INSULTS. AND STAND SHOULDER AND SHOULDER WITH THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES -- [APPLAUSE] PARTICULARLY RELIGIOUS MINORITIES WHO ARE TARGETS OF SUCH ATTACKS.

AND SO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY SOMETHING DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULDN'T, SHOULDN'T QUESTION THOSE WHO WOULD INSULT OTHERS IN THE NAME OF FREE SPEECH. BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT OUR NATIONS ARE STRONGER WHEN PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS FEEL THAT THEY ARE WELCOME, THAT THEY, TOO, ARE FULL AND EQUAL MEMBERS OF OUR COUNTRIES.

SO HUMILITY I THINK IS NEEDED. AND THE SECOND THING WE NEED IS TO UPHOLD THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN OUR FAITH AND OUR GOVERNMENTS, BETWEEN CHURCH AND BETWEEN STATES.

THE UNITED STATES IS ONE OF THE MOST RELIGIOUS COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD, FAR MORE RELIGIOUS THAN MOST WESTERN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. AND ONE OF THE REASONS IS THAT OUR FOUNDERS WISELY EMBRACED THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

OUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SPONSOR OF RELIGION, NOR DOES IT PRESSURE ANYONE TO PRACTICE A PARTICULAR FAITH OR ANYTHING AT ALL.

AND THE RESULT IS A CULTURE WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS AND BELIEFS CAN FREELY AND PROUDLY WORSHIP WITHOUT FEAR OR COERCION SO THAT WHEN YOU LISTEN TO DARRELL TALK ABOUT HIS FAITH JOURNEY, YOU KNOW IT'S REAL. YOU KNOW HE IS NOT SAYING IT BECAUSE IT HELPS HIM ADVANCE OR BECAUSE SOMEBODY TOLD HIM TO.

IT'S FROM THE HEART. THAT'S NOT THE CASE IN THEOCRACIES THAT RESTRICT PEOPLES CHOICE OF FAITH. IT'S NOT THE CASE IN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENTS THAT ELEVATE AN INDIVIDUAL LEADER OR A POLITICAL PARTY ABOVE THE PEOPLE, OR IN SOME CASES ABOVE THE CONCEPTS OF GOD HIMSELF.

SO THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION IS A VALUED WE WILL CONTINUE TO PROTECT HERE AT HOME AND STAND UP FOR AROUND THE WORLD, AND IS ONE THAT WE GUARD VISUALLY -- VIGILANTLY HERE IN THE COUNTRY.

LESTER WE JOINED TOGETHER TO PRAY FOR THE RELEASE OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY KENNETH BAE, HELD IN NORTH KOREA FOR TWO YEARS. AND TODAY WE GIVE THANKS THAT KENNETH IS FINALLY BACK WHERE HE BELONGS, HOME WITH HIS FAMILY. [APPLAUSE] LAUGHTER

WE PRAY TOGETHER FOR FASTER SAEED ABEDINI, DETAINED IN IRAN SINCE 2012. AND I WAS RECENTLY IN BOISE, IDAHO, AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH PASTOR ABEDINI'S BEAUTIFUL WIFE AND WONDERFUL CHILDREN, AND TO CONVEY TO THEM THAT OUR COUNTRY HAS NOT FORGOTTEN HIM AND WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO BRING HIM HOME. [APPLAUSE] AND THEN I RECEIVED AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER FROM PASTOR ABEDINI. AND IN IT HE DESCRIBES HIS CAPTIVITY AND EXPRESSED HIS GRATITUDE FOR MY VISIT WITH HIS FAMILY. .. WE ARE GOING TO KEEP UP THIS WORK.

ALL THOSE AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE UNJUSTLY HELD OR PERSECUTED BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH AND WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE NEW AMBASSADOR FOR INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WHO HAS HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND IS HEADING TO IRAQ IN A FEW DAYS TO HELP COMMUNITIES ADDRESS CHALLENGES.

WHERE IS DAVID, I KNOW SHE'S HERE SOMEWHERE. THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT WORK YOU'RE DOING. [APPLAUSE]

HUMILITY, SUSPICION OF GOVERNMENT GETTING BETWEEN US AND OUR FAITH. WE ARE TRYING TO DICTATE OUR FAITH, ELEVATES ONE OVER ANOTHER. AND FINALLY LET'S REMEMBER IF THERE IS ONE LAW WE CAN BE MOST CERTAIN OF THAT SEEMS TO BIND PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL FINDING THEIR WAY TOWARDS FAITH THAT HAVE A SENSE OF ETHICS AND MORALITY, AND THAT THE GOLDEN RULE THAT WE SHOULD TREAT EACH OTHER AS WE WISH TO BE TREATED. LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS MYSELF.

IN ISLAM THAN A FEW TRULY BE THE HUNTSVILLE HE LOVES HIS BROTHER WHAT HE WANTS FOR HIMSELF.

THE BIBLE TELLS US TO PUT ON LOVE THAT BINDS EVERYTHING TOGETHER IN PERFECT HARMONY. WHATEVER OUR BELIEFS, TRADITIONS , WE MUST SEEK TO BE AT PEACE AND BRING LIGHT WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS AND LOVE WHERE THERE IS HATRED. THIS IS THE LOVING MESSAGE.

LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD -- CALLED ON THE RELEASE TO SUFFERING OF JUSTICE, MERCY AND PASSION TO THE VULNERABLE, TO WALK WITH THE LORD AND ASK WHO AM I TO JUDGE, WHO CHALLENGES US TO PRESS ON AND WHAT HE CALLS THE MARCH OF LIVING HOPE.

LIKE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, I'M VERY MUCH AGAIN FOR TWO WELCOMING POPE FRANCIS TO THE UNITED STATES THIS YEAR. [APPLAUSE] HIS HOLINESS EXPRESSES THIS BASIC LAW, TREAT THE NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.

THE DALAI LAMA, ANYBODY THAT HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE WITH HIM HAS THAT SAME SPIRIT.

KENT BRADLEY EXPRESSES THAT SAME SPIRIT VERY GOOD KENT WAS TREATING EBOLA PATIENTS WHEN HE CONTRACTED IT HIMSELF AND WITH WORLD-CLASS MEDICAL CARE AND A DEEP RELIANCE ON FAITH, WITH GOD'S HELP, KENT SURVIVED. AND THEN BY DONATING HIS PLASMA HE HELPED OTHERS SURVIVED AS WELL, YET HE CONTINUES TO ADVOCATE FOR GLOBAL RESPONSE IN WEST AFRICA REMINDING THE US THAT OUR EFFORTS NEED TO BE ON LOVING THE PEOPLE THERE. I COULDN'T HAVE BEEN PROUDER TO WORK WITH KENT AND HIS WIFE AMBER TO THE OVAL OFFICE. WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE HIM HERE TODAY BECAUSE HE REMINDS US OF WHAT IT MEANS TO LOVE VIA NEIGHBOR AS THEYSELF.

EACH OF US HAS A ROLE IN FULFILLING A GREATER COMMON PURPOSE. NOT MERELY TO SEEK HIGH POSITIONS BUT TO PLUMB GREATER DEATH SO WE MAY FIND THE STRENGTH TO LIVE MORE FULLY INTO THIS IS OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE TO SEE THE REFLECTION IN EACH OTHER, TO BE OUR BROTHERS KEEPERS INTO SISTERS KEEPERS AND TO KEEP FAITH WITH ONE ANOTHER.

AS CHILDREN OF GOD, LET'S MAKE THAT WORK TOGETHER.

AS CHILDREN OF GOD, LET'S WORK TO END THE UNJUST THIS COME, THE INJUSTICE OF POVERTY AND HUNGER. NO ONE SHOULD EVER SUFFER FROM SUCH WANT WHEN THEY ARE SUCH PLENTY.

AS CHILDREN OF GOD AT WORK TO END HOMELESSNESS BECAUSE AS SISTER MARY SAID NONE OF US ARE HOME UNTIL ALL OF US ARE HOME.

AS CHILDREN OF GOD LETS STAND UP TO THE DIGNITY AND VALUE OF EVERY MAN AND WOMAN AND A CHILD BECAUSE WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN HIS EYES AND WORK TO END THE SCOURGE AND THE SAME OF MODERN-DAY SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SET THE OPPRESSED FREE. [APPLAUSE]

IF WE ARE PROPERLY HUMBLE, IF WE DROP TO OUR KNEES ON OCCASION, WE WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE NEVER FULLY KNOW GOD'S PURPOSE. WE CAN NEVER FULLY FATHOM HIS AMAZING GRACE. WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS, GRAPPLING WITH THE EXPANSE OF HIS AWESOME LOVE. BUT EVEN WITH OUR LIMITS, WE CAN HEED THAT WHICH IS REQUIRED TO DO JUSTICE AND LOVE KINDLY AND WALK HUMBLY WITH OUR GOD.

I PRAY THAT WE WILL END AS WE WORKED TOGETHER ON THIS MARCH OF LIVING HOPE, I PRAY THAT IN HIS NAME WE WILL RUN AND NOT WORRY, WALK AND NOT BE FAINT, AND WE WILL HEED THOSE WORDS AND PUT ON LOVE. MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU AND ME -- MAY HE BLESS THIS COUNTRY THAT WE LIVE. LOVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE]

>> MR. PRESIDENT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR MESSAGE. WE ARE HONORED BY YOUR PRESENCE HERE TODAY. WE CLOSE OUR PROGRAM WITH ONE SONG AND ONE PRAYER.


78 posted on 02/05/2015 8:51:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: xzins

It was the Muslims who captured and sold the slaves in the name of Allah!!


79 posted on 02/05/2015 8:55:39 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If this jerk spent half the time he does defending muslim terrorists defending America instead, we’d be far better off.


80 posted on 02/05/2015 8:56:05 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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