Again saying the wrong thing at the wrong time,
Emperor Nerobama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to
liken our Christian forebears to the homicidal maniacs of the Islamic
State. He said, in part:
… unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place -- remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ …. So [sic], it is not unique to one group or one religion; there is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.In addition to being inapt, this latest apology for militant Muslims is historically inaccurate. You can learn the truth about the Crusades here. I can’t link you to any similar resource regarding the likewise-maligned Inquisition, but I know that scholars have written books which prove that the negative modern view of it is almost entirely a product of disingenuous Protestant propaganda; if you try, you can find such a work without any help from me, although you probably won’t find any that have the nifty title of this u.c.
