Why Are Christians SO Upset About This?

The 2015 National Prayer Breakfast was held this past week.

The National Prayer Breakfast is a yearly event held in Washington, D.C., on the first Thursday of February each year.

The founder of this event was Abraham Vereide. The event—which is actually a series of meetings, luncheons, and dinners—has taken place since 1953 and has been held at least since the 1980's at the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue NW.

The breakfast, held in the Hilton's International Ballroom, is typically attended by some 3,500 guests, including international invitees from over 100 countries. The National Prayer Breakfast is hosted by members of the United States Congress and is organized on their behalf by The Fellowship Foundation [aka, The Family], a Christ-centered organization. Initially called the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, the name was changed in 1970 to the National Prayer Breakfast.
It is designed to be a forum for the political, social, and business elite to assemble and build relationships. Since the inception of the National Prayer Breakfast, several U.S. states and cities and other countries have established their own annual prayer breakfast events.

Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has participated in the annual event.

President Obama attended this year, and gave a few remarks. The right wing, the conservatives, the Republicans, went nuts in their condemnation. First, what did he say?

Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

What do you think? Is that an outrageous thing to say? Fox News and the right wing seem to think so. Starting with the Crusades,