Obama, Clinton, Democrats Denounce Attacks on ‘Easter Worshippers,’ Not ‘Christians’
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Former President Barack Obama, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and several other leading Democrats denounced terror attacks on what they called “Easter worshippers” — not Christians — Sunday in Sri Lanka.
Suicide bombers murdered nearly 300 people and wounded 500 more in attacks on three churches, three hotels, and a housing complex. Many were killed as they attended Mass for Easter Sunday. The government reportedly suspects that the bombers, all Sri Lankans, were members of “a domestic Islamist terror group named National Thowfeek Jamaath.”
Yet Obama, Clinton, and other Democrats — including 2020 presidential contender Julián Castro — could not bring themselves to identify the victims of the attacks as “Christians,” calling them “Easter worshippers” instead in eerily similar responses :
During Obama’s eight years as president, Obama — and Clinton, who served as his first Secretary of State — drew criticism for his reluctance to identify radical Islam as the source of many terror attacks.
In an address to the National Prayer Breakfast in 2015, Obama attempted to draw a moral equivalence between the terror and torture used by the so-called “Islamic State” (or ISIS), and medieval Christianity. He admonished Americans not to “get on our high horse” about radical Islam, since “people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ” centuries ago.
Democrats also criticized President Donald Trump and his administration for declining to use the word “Muslims” to describe the victims of the Christchurch terror attack in New Zealand last month, although Trump did identify the targets as “mosques.” Similarly, he identified the targets in Sri Lanka as “churches and hotels.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution , which is available from Regnery.
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I dunno. Feels thin. And political.
I think you can just as easily see "Easter worshippers" as accentuating the fact that people were attacked while they were engaged in worshipping on the holiest day of the Christian calendar. I think people understand that they're Christians. Killing Easter worshippers actually seems worse to me than just killing someone for being a Christian.
Notice how both Obama and Clinton use the exact same awkward language. The left can never allow Christians to be perceived as victims. To them, Christians are the one's that need to be watched. These are people who fear imaginary right wing extremism more that they fear radical Islamic terrorism.
Anyone who didn't notice would be lying. Even Muslims noticed.
Many of us in the Evangelical community don't even use the word Easter which is associated with the Cult of the Church of Rome. We call it Resurrection Day and greet each other with Happy or Blessed Resurrection Day, and to say "He is risen", and the response to that is "He is risen indeed"
Ah, the code words. Good to know. Though, that sounds like something Lot's older daughter might have said to her younger daughter after coming out of their Fathers tent...
couldn't avoid a chance to introduce some vulgarity to what is holy to Christians?
"holy to christians." ? ? That would be...………..what?
the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus
Except you don't.
Incest?
Really? and you know that how? Why engage in lying about someone you don't know
The height of irony is Evangelicals calling Catholics a cult.
Hardly. Evangelicals stress obedience to the Word of God as Jesus commanded while the Church of Rome is founded upon leadership and doctrines that are not Biblical including the papacy and worship of Mary
How hilarious that you think you happen to belong to the one correct cult, and all the other cults are wrong.
BTW, Easter is taken from Oestre, your holiday is plagiarized from a pagan holiday, and your myths are plagiarized from earlier religions who had stories of resurrections and births without sex - since you're in the mood to insult people who don't share your beliefs.
I don't belong to any cult. Of course those who mock God like yourself consider all worship of God to be cultish, but that's your problem that you will face when you are face to face with God.
I agree that Easter is a pagan celebration adopted by the Cult of the Church of Rome. that is why Evangelicals like myself don't celebrate or mention the name Easter. We celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus from the Grave. No Easter Eggs,
Christianity is far removed from myths and is based upon facts attested to by witnesses. Witnesses who were complete cowards in hiding upon his trial and death on the cross, but brave enough to testify of Him to the point of all but one being executed for that witness.
Secondly, and of importance, the Jews do not deny the fact of the life, ministry, and death of Jesus. Some Rabbinical Scholars even acknowledge the fact of the Resurrection
As to the myth accusation, those who are basically ignorant of the facts regurgitate these kinds of statements even though they have been thoroughly refuted.
Does the existence of logic mock your god?
Your threats of eternal torment at the hands of your judgemental god are proof that you do not have a rational response, so you fall back on supernatural threats for those who do not agree with you.
Ooh, threats from your evil boogeyman! I'm so scared! Why you would worship anything you claim is so evil and jealous is beyond me, but suit yourself.
You get so insulted when your religion is called a cult, yet you sit there on your high horse and claim that another Christian sect is a cult. And you don't even grasp the irony of that. I'd say that yours is a cult - the price for leaving it is eternal torture, and that's a good way to define a cult.
If you don't want your faith insulted, then stop insulting everyone else's.
It would seem that to some people the concept of the No True Scotsman fallacy doesn't apply to their religious beliefs. That is exactly why that fallacy exists.
I cannot find examples of his gods love because it would seem that for Christians their god letting them alone and not hurting them is an example of love. He created all of these things that caused people pain and anguish (sin, sickness, and hell among many others), but they continue to repeat the claim that their god is a loving God.
Most people do not understand the concept of gaslighting or how it applies to religion. If someone or something says that they love/care for you but then they do or say something that causes you pain/hurt/suffering then they are gaslighting you. Once people have their eyes opened to this tactic they tend to see it happening and change the way that they respond.
My mom believes in a loving God, and her idea of hell is simply separation from God. No torture or anything.
I am so glad I am not the only person to find that ironic. I also find it annoying. Out of all the people that is in the Bible my favorite character was Jesus' mother Mary. Why? Because in the story she put her life on the line to carry this child. And what did she get out of it?
I'll do it for him. You strumpet! There was a priest where I grew up who refused to let my friends marry at the altar because the girl was pregnant (and therefore a strumpet, while nothing bad was said about her boyfriend of course). Her boyfriend looked at the priest and said, "Who do you think got her pregnant?" They walked out and never went to church again.
I was raised to believe you make your own Hell. Still believe that.
But you believe it is ok to persecte Catholics by ridiculing their tenets, but your brand of Christianity shouldn't be ridiculed? Oh god - there is so much wrong with that.
And BTW - Mary is the best character in the Bible.
Never thought that it would ever be necessary----even in right wing world----to have to excavate the dirt beneath the bottom rung to make more room.
No value Mr. Vic Eldred?
That's right.
I fail to see how his observation is of no value. Maybe you could explain your opinion to both BBL1 and me,
Insulting groups really adds nothing to the discussion. We are fairly lenient here. Stick with making your argument.
A counter argument can be insulting to some people if it is a point that they do not like, so should those also be limited when the party in question feels the alternative idea is an insult to their political/social opinions or their religious beliefs?
It's not about idea's, it's about insults. Show me the idea or better still, an argument related to the article in that statement?
To some, the greatest insults are truths.
How did Barack Obama insult anyone? You are choosing to be insulted because you don't think that he was sincere.
Not here.
How do you know that they were not sincere?
If I had a dollar for every time you insulted someone else's feelings or beliefs, I could afford to buy the State of Jefferson and have your silly behind thrown out of it.
Seems like quite the stretch to think that saying ''Easter Worshipers'' is some kind of insult...
I would think that there were people there that were not Christian so it seems inclusive to me.
I see nothing but thin skinned alt+right snowflakes?
Don't be so pedantic. They were worshipping in a church on Easter. How can you possibly worship a date on a calendar?
You would probably feel better if you turn back the religious persecution dial to 3 or 4.
So, none of the people I saw going to church on Sunday were Christians?
You're not calling them liars, are you, KAG? Because I'd bet most of them call themselves Christians.
Unless it's "culture warrior" Laura Loomer.
I never said or hinted that you persecuted other religious beliefs. I was saying your own religious persecution complex is out of control and you should consider dialing back for your health because nobody is persecuting you or your religious beliefs. Not even King Obamao of Kenya, or sHillary Clinton from her deep underground bunker at the pizza shop.
I never said she was. You call her a "culture warrior" when she's an anti-Muslim bigot. You do, indeed, advocate persecution on the basis of beliefs, so long as it's done by someone with whom you agree politically. Your comment history is here in black and white.
How hard do you have to try not to understand that "Easter worshippers" means "people who are worshipping on Easter Day", not "people who worship a holiday"? Pretty much everybody here understands that the phrase means the former, and not the latter.
While some may get their panties in a bunch over what is portrayed as a slight towards Christian's, compare and contrast the Easter tweets of Obama and Trump...tells a different tale.
Easter Worshipers, implies those who were worshipping on Easter. Nothing more, nothing less.
Oh, bullshit. They were making a point that these people were celebrating Easter, the holiest day of the Christian year. Not just a normal Sunday at church, but THE most important celebration of all for Christians.
Where was the outrage when people talked about people celebrating Ramadan?
Sheesh.
I'm waiting for the outrage about the reporting of today's synagogue shooting. I have seen no headline specifying that the victims were Jewish. Surely, that is an attempt to cover up antisemitism.
The shooter is also a Christian. This is from his manifesto.
Yet another headline and article that doesn't spell out that those celebrating Passover were Jewish.
Outrageous, if we judge your link by the standards to which we seem to be holding Obama and Clinton.