Friday 7th February

Woke up this morning sniffling and sneezing all over the place so felt I couldn't go to the hospital, I rang Bill with my apologies,  then Bubbles and I snuggled down among the hot water bottles.

 

So as you might imagine I have been watching the news.   And the big item in the news is an address Obama made at the National Prayer Breakfast* telling Americans that they can't get on their high horse condemning Muslims because Christians have been just as bad in the atrocities they committed in the name of Christ, and citing the Crusades and the Inquisition.    But actually, bad as Christians might have been they did not perpetrate the unspeakable horrors on children that Muslim extremists are currently inflicting.

 

And he really should have known better than to cite the Inquisition in which 2200 people died over a period of 450 years, which is 5 a year - and yes, someone else did the maths.  Whereas, on 9/11 - in one day - 2996 people died at the hands of Muslim extremists.    I took the trouble to look that number up.

 

I don't know why he cited the Crusades either because, unlike the war ISIS is currently waging, the Crusaders met every criteria of a just war, in that they were defensive.   Basically, in a nutshell,  Muslims had taken over and were occupying all the holy places sacred to Christianity - Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, and in 1095 the Pope said "ENOUGH" and so began the First Crusade. 

 

*The National Prayer Breakfast takes place on the first Thursday in February and is hosted by the United States Congress, and is organised on their behalf by The Fellowship Foundation, a Christ centred organisation.   Since the 1980s it has been held at the Washington Hilton, and attended by about 3500 guests, including international guests from over 100 countries.

 

It was said that Obama was trying to salvage the reputation of Islam, but it would be more to the point if he were to fight those who are perverting it.   Christianity has reformed itself from its past, and it is time Islam did the same.

 

I said the other day that what ISIS is doing can be compared to the Nazis in the Second World War, and someone made the point today that the Nazis tried to establish a Master Race.    ISIS is trying to establish the Master Faith.

 

I think I've been on this soapbox long enough.   It's time for bed.