In God's name, dismount

AT A rough estimate, nearly100m Americans went to a Christianchurch today.And to judge by the blogosphere,many of them werefeeling disturbed by something their president said this week. In the course of denouncing the villainies ofIslamic State, he suggested thatall religions, including Christianity, were open to exploitationby people bent on stirring up hatred, aggression or cruelty.To be precise,Barack Obama told a National Prayer Breakfast:Lest we geton our high horse and think this [violence in the name of religion] 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 ofChrist...Michelle and I returned from India,an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity,but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have on occasion been...Continue reading
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