David Brooks must be giving kudos for getting it right. He went against
the Right Wing grain as well as against rather elitist comments from
journalists Andrea Mitchell and Jon Meacham.
Jon Meacham claimed that within Christianity, the Crusades was an exception to the rule. This illustrates how one can change a narrative when the context is kept limited in scope for a self-serving purpose. As noted in my previous post "This Obama speech put fear into Right Wing Evangelical Leaders,"
Andrea Mitchell said. "And the week after a pilot is burned alive and a video shown, you don't lean over backward to be philosophical about the sins of the fathers. You have to deal with issues that are in front of you or don't deal with it at all." In other words ignore the sins that indirectly impact or have impacted all that is occurring in the world.
Jon Meachem does seem to believe that atrocities in the name of Christ ended with the Crusades. He forgot the savagery Christianity inflicted on Native Americans from the tip of South America, the Caribbean, Central America, to North America. He forgot that African slaves throughout the America's were murdered, lynched, burned, and beheaded, many of these acts justified by religion. He forgot that while some did these bad deeds in the name of Christ, most Christians remained quiet. READ MORE
Jon Meacham claimed that within Christianity, the Crusades was an exception to the rule. This illustrates how one can change a narrative when the context is kept limited in scope for a self-serving purpose. As noted in my previous post "This Obama speech put fear into Right Wing Evangelical Leaders,"
The President was rather kind by not articulating the fact that similar heinous behavior in our country is less than just a few centuries and decades past. Isolated heinous acts are less than a few months in our past.Andrea Mitchell's comment was simply ludicrous. She does not believe the prayer breakfast is a place to speak truth. "You don't use the word Crusade in any context right now. It's too fraught,"
Andrea Mitchell said. "And the week after a pilot is burned alive and a video shown, you don't lean over backward to be philosophical about the sins of the fathers. You have to deal with issues that are in front of you or don't deal with it at all." In other words ignore the sins that indirectly impact or have impacted all that is occurring in the world.
Jon Meachem does seem to believe that atrocities in the name of Christ ended with the Crusades. He forgot the savagery Christianity inflicted on Native Americans from the tip of South America, the Caribbean, Central America, to North America. He forgot that African slaves throughout the America's were murdered, lynched, burned, and beheaded, many of these acts justified by religion. He forgot that while some did these bad deeds in the name of Christ, most Christians remained quiet. READ MORE
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