Strong Words About Insulting Religion . . . Well at Least Insulting Islam

Those who recently heard of the speech the president gave at the United Nations must have been impressed by the ability he has to speak out of both sides of his mouth at once.  I am sure that he was seeking to bring peace and calm to a situation that is beginning to get out of control.  Yet the utter hypocrisy of stating that we should not slander either the prophet of Islam or desecrate the “image of Jesus Christ,” is really beyond the pale.  As we examine the gross hypocrisy of our president’s statement, we should read it first.  Here is the statement he made in the United Nations speech on September 25th, 2012. 

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. Yet to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are destroyed, or the Holocaust is denied.”  (emphasis mine)

If President Obama is serious about this statement – and I mean by serious that he will stand up for Christianity as well as Islam – I await his forthcoming denunciation of Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ” that is going back on display in the very city in which he gave these remarks.  I wonder when our President will be coming out with strong statements about the return of this federally funded desecration of Jesus Christ?  I also  wonder  when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be joining him to condemn in the strongest words possible this outrage.  I look forward to their joint commercial, at the cost of at least $70,000, so that all of the Christians in the United States can hear their strong rebukes, apologies, and calls for this artwork to be removed from the public view?  You see, that IS what happened when the recent anti-Muslim film, “The Innocence of Muslims” caused problems in the Muslim world.  Geez, I wonder if the Joint Chiefs of Staff has personally called Serrano yet urging him to withdraw his picture from the Art Gallery in Manhattan?

All this was done by our current administration to protest the offense to Muslims worldwide for the presence of “The Innocence of Muslims” on YouTube.  Yet in 1989 when it came out, what we found when Cerrano decided to plunge the image of Jesus Christ on the cross into a jar of his own urine – was strong defenses by Democrat officials.  They would not allow censorship – or even calls for it to be seriously considered.  But that was before hope and change.  Certainly NOW that there was someone who knew that people should not desecrate the image of Jesus Christ, we’d finally have a rebuke from our administration?  But . . . there were no commercials made – no calls – no outrage – no disgust – just deafening silence.   But now we have a President who gets it – right!  He described such things as hateful actions!   Therefore, according to our president, this was an act of hate paid for with your tax dollars!  So, based on this speech, we should be hearing his denunciation of it as hate any moment now. 

What is truly strange is that we find  him oddly silent.  He feels that the future cannot belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.  He also backs up those words with serious actions.  We know from what he has DONE that he is serious about protecting Islam as a religion.  But when it comes to Christianity once again we find him strangely mute.  But now . . . now that our president is on record about the “hate we see when the image of Christ is desecrated,” things are going to be different.  We can hold our breath, knowing that strong denunciations – commercials – apologies – will be coming from him, Secretary of State Clinton, and many others.  How dare they!  NOW we’ll hear President Obama and his administration really give it to them! 

My advice to you would be to avoid holding your breath waiting for ANY action or statement to come as a result of this speech . . . unless you are a Muslim.  Christians don’t riot and burn things  - and kill Ambassadors when they are offended.  (Actually the death of our Ambassador to Libya wasn’t due to the film – that was a terrorist attack – or at least a Libyan act of workplace violence.)  We don’t act this way as Christians because we are told to rejoice when we are persecuted.  We are told to love those who do such things to us.  So, if you are a Christian, don’t hold your breath awaiting the strong denunciations that are forthcoming concerning the desecration of Jesus Christ that are currently on display in New York City – unless you want to actually meet Jesus in person.  My guess is that you’ll die for lack of oxygen waiting for that kind of consistency on religious matters from this current administration.  

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