I read Redstate so you don't have to. As a heads up, here comes the next right wing meme. I won't be providing links.
Redstate Headline:
President Obama Declares The Future Must Not Belong to Practicing Christians
I don't know enough about Erick Erickson to say he really believes what he's slinging or just throwing undercooked ideas to the uninformed . More below the Kos orange pig-in-a-blanket.
In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly today the President of the United States declared that the future does not belong to practicing Christians. Already, the media and the left are in full denial, probably based on their general lack of understanding of theology. This would have been a gaffe had Mitt Romney said it. But with Barack Obama, he’s just speaking bold truths. His bold truth declares that the future does not belong to practicing Christians.
Pay careful attention to what he says.
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. Let us condemn incitement against Sufi Muslims, and Shiite pilgrims. It is time to heed the words of Gandhi: “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.” Together, we must work towards a world where we are strengthened by our differences, and not defined by them. That is what America embodies, and that is the vision we will support.
Now, that’s the full paragraph so no one can claim I took him out of context.
Taking him out of context? No. Deliberately misstating what he said? Guilty.
I must have missed that day in Bible School where they taught that it was our duty as good Christians to denigrate the religion of a quarter of the world's population. But then again being raised a Methodist I can't speak to what Erickson was taught.
Some of the enlightened Redstate comments:
When [Obama] claimed the call to Muslim prayer was the prettiest sound on earth we had a clue about his true ideology.
Obama has lauded "the Holy Koran" as "revealed" (something no Christian could say without renouncing our Bible), and now he parrots without hesitation the phrase "the Prophet Muhammad" (also something no Christian could say without renouncing our God and Jesus Himself). Madonna understands that Obama is a Muslim, when will he have the courage just to say so himself?
I think a history lesson is in order.
"We shall drive the Christians into war by exploiting
their national vanity and stupidity. They will then massacre
each other, thus giving room for our own people." (Rabbi
Reichorn, in Le Contemporain, July 1st, 1880)
If you didn't post quotes from fictional characters like Rabbi Reichorn as real, you might have even the tiniest shred of credibility. But you did, so you don't.