{"id":24943,"date":"2015-02-06T04:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T09:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24943"},"modified":"2015-02-06T04:57:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T09:57:03","slug":"some-quotes-from-the-national-prayer-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24943","title":{"rendered":"Some Quotes From The National Prayer Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really do not want to talk about President Obama’s<\/a> remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast<\/a>. The remarks speak for themselves. The following quotes are posted at the Washington Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen violence and terror perpetuated\u201d by those who distort their faith, he said Thursday morning to a group of 3,500 gathered in the Washington Hilton<\/a>\u2019s ballroom for the morning event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Islamic State of Iraq<\/a> and Syria<\/a>, he said, is a \u201cvicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In seeking to reconcile these two realities, Obama urged humility for all people of faith, recalling that in the past people \u201chave committed terrible misdeeds in the name of Christ,\u201d including justifying slavery and Jim Crow laws<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a tendency in us \u2014 a sinful tendency \u2014 that can pervert and distort our faith,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He urged every member of faith to speak up against those who would misuse their religions to justify murder and terror.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNo God condones terror, no grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives,\u201d he said. \u201cSo as people of faith we are summoned to push back at people who will misuse our religion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Islam<\/a> is being distorted by those who persecute Christians and Jews, force people to convert to Islam, and murder innocent people in the Middle East<\/a> and in Africa, why is Israel the only country in the region where Jews, Christians, and Muslims are free to practice their religion without persecution? There is a pattern here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really do not want to talk about President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. The remarks speak for themselves. The following quotes are posted at the Washington Examiner: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen violence and terror perpetuated\u201d by those who distort … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,6095,697,156,8705,8707,154,7839,8706,4963],"class_list":["post-24943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-christ","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-crusades","tag-inquisition","tag-islam","tag-islamic-state","tag-jim-crow-laws","tag-national-prayer-breakfast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24944,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943\/revisions\/24944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}