I don't want to harass Archie Bunker.

I didn't start nuthin about racism.

I am a white ass cracker myself -- and that is NOT A RACIST TERM -- AS PER TRAYVON'S GIRLFRIEND HERSELF.

It's ok - I was just pointing out the difference between Archie bunker - a TV character - and a current poster on OPP named Archie Bunker

This thread is about Obummer's Prayer Breakfast gaff equating ISIS burning the dude in a cage to past "sins" of Christianity

as if this commie a-hole in the White House is qualified to tell us of our 'sins'

By Susan Crabtree | February 5, 2015 | 10:46 am

President Obama highlighted Thursday recent examples where faith has inspired great works of selflessness, but also warned in his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast of the dangers of groups twisting their faith to justify heinous terrorist acts.

Over the last six months, the world has watched as people of faith have put their own lives in jeopardy by attending to victims of Ebola in Western Africa, Obama said.

He specifically singled out the Dalai Lama, who was on hand for the breakfast, calling him a "powerful example of what it means to practice compassion."

Obama also had high praise for Dr. Kent Brantley, a doctor with the Christian aid agency Samaritan’s Purse, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia last summer and was later cured of the virus under special treatment at Emory University.

Bentley had spoken at the Prayer Breakfast just a few minutes before, and Obama thanked him for his “incredible work” and cited his work as an example of “faith inspiring people to lift up one another, care for the poor and help the afflicted.”

Obama then abruptly pivoted to condemn those who “twist and distort” their faith to use it as a “wedge” and a “weapon.”

“We’ve seen violence and terror perpetuated” by those who distort their faith, he said Thursday morning to a group of 3,500 gathered in the Washington Hilton’s ballroom for the morning event.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, he said, is a “vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism.”

In seeking to reconcile these two realities, Obama urged humility for all people of faith, recalling that in the past people “have committed terrible misdeeds in the name of Christ,” including justifying slavery and Jim Crow laws.

“There is a tendency in us — a sinful tendency — that can pervert and distort our faith,” he said.

He urged every member of faith to speak up against those who would misuse their religions to justify murder and terror.

“No God condones terror, no grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives,” he said. “So as people of faith we are summoned to push back at people who will misuse our religion.”

The president met with American Muslim leaders Wednesday afternoon and discussed issues of anti-Muslim violence and discrimination, the Affordable Care Act and the upcoming White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, according to a White House read-out of the meeting.

“The president reiterated his administration's commitment to safeguarding civil rights through hate crimes prosecutions and civil enforcement actions,” the White House said, noting that Obama also discussed the need to continue countering the Islamic State and “other groups that commit horrific acts of violence, purportedly in the name of Islam.”

The White House did not provide a list of those attending the meeting or the groups they represented.