tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post8679840513974483081..comments2024-03-29T11:29:58.276+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: assessing Barack Obama religiously and morallyKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-40174436960610036192015-02-12T07:17:57.609+09:002015-02-12T07:17:57.609+09:00I want to see a photograph of the "right-wing...I want to see a photograph of the "right-wing outrage machine."<br /><br />Jeffery Hodges<br /><br />* * *Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-19879861137768196012015-02-12T00:32:40.469+09:002015-02-12T00:32:40.469+09:00So when the Crusaders sacked the Christian city of...So when the Crusaders sacked the Christian city of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade, who were they defending it against?<br /><br />Goldberg is full of it, as usual. They don't call him the Doughy Pantload for nothingHoosier Xhttp://mushtown.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-53810942199011240222015-02-11T20:41:53.905+09:002015-02-11T20:41:53.905+09:00Found this on Ace:
Obama's right. Terrible thi...Found this on Ace:<br />Obama's right. Terrible things have been done in the name of Christianity. I have yet to meet a Christian who denies this.<br /><br />But, as odd as it may sound for a guy named Goldberg to point it out, the Inquisition and the Crusades aren't the indictments Obama thinks they are. For starters, the Crusades - despite their terrible organized cruelties - were a defensive war.<br />"The Crusades could more accurately be described as a limited, belated and, in the last analysis, ineffectual response to the jihad - a failed attempt to recover by a Christian holy war what had been lost to a Muslim holy war," writes Bernard Lewis, the greatest living English-language historian of Islam.<br /><br />...We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.<br /><br />-- Jonah Goldberg in Horse Pucky from Barack ObamaAnne in Rockwall, TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171076259617071023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-43861154782094828742015-02-11T14:08:36.780+09:002015-02-11T14:08:36.780+09:00Regarding the latter quote. I guess it depends on...Regarding the latter quote. I guess it depends on how finely you measure "in our time". Five hundred years is too coarse, too big, but how about 50 or 70 years? That would include KKK violence in the US and the Irish Troubles.Surprises Aplentyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14178013380916292778noreply@blogger.com