President Barack Obama appeared to poke fun at his critics Tuesday during an Easter prayer breakfast speech at the White House.
“On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love,” Obama said. “I have to say that sometimes when I listen to less-than-loving expressions by Christians I get concerned.”
The President didn’t specify what those “less-than-loving expressions” were.
“But that’s a topic for another day,” he added to laughter and applause from the audience. “I was about to veer off. I’m pulling it back.”
Obama faced a barrage of criticism from the right earlier this year for his comments about Christianity at the National Prayer Breakfast. Critics berated him for stating that Christians shouldn’t get on their “high horse” about religious barbarism, given the Crusades and Christian backing for slavery and Jim Crow laws.
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These “prayer breakfasts” are not something a POTUS should be engaging in. Although, by calling out these Cafeteria Christians on their hypocritical bullshit, he has done something useful.
Well, it is bullshit but there is no way to stop attending but I love that he spoke out/
The man is pure class
This great President displays the patience of Job in the face of willful, ignorant vexation from proven failures and shouldn’t lower himself or the office with more than the graceful pokes he occasionally gives. I remain surprised at the lack of full-throated, joyful and acerbic opposition from our other ‘leaders’…the church-like quiet cannot all be the fault of bone lazy, corrupt media.
Amen to that. I Love, love, love this man
Another Prayer Breakfast…Seems like they have these every other week in DC now. Almost as often as some conservative confab. I really hate the blurring of boundaries between our secular government and religion on this regular basis. Wish they’d put a stop to this.