We were never "just" a Christian nation, fergossake

When it's time for the next meal, Tiny goes for the proboscis.

"If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," misdirected Magician-in-Chief Barack Obama on the eve of his latest Mea-Culpa-Middle-East Tour. Satirist-in-Chief ScrappleFace puts the President's fatuousness in perspective:

After announcing that the United States is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world,“ with an Islamic population soon to overtake number 50 (Mauritania), President Barack Obama today boasted that the U.S. is also the second largest Jewish nation on earth, “and moving up fast.”

"Only Israel has more Jews than us," said President Obama, "and we're catching up. Like our productive American Muslims, our Jews are working hard to make us number one in the world."

"It [Touro] is not only the oldest Synagogue in America but also one of the oldest symbols of liberty. No better tradition exists than the history of Touro Synagogue's great contribution to the goals of freedom and justice for all," said President John F. Kennedy on September 15, 1963.

Presidential wannabe Obama tendentiously asserted in June of 2006:

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers (Have you noticed his pronunciation of plurals such as nonbelievers as nonbelieverss as opposed to nonbeliverz? It grates on our earss).

"We were never 'just' a Christian nation, fergossake," we wrote in the comments at Ann Althouse's post on the subject:

I'm thinking of the Touro Synagogue — "not only the oldest Synagogue in America," as JFK said, "but also one of the oldest symbols of liberty" — in Newport, RI, for starters. Obama gets away with it because they no longer teach the history of this Shining City Upon a Hill in our public schools, let alone our elite institutions of higher education.

Santayana continues to roll over in his grave as President Obama quixotically tilts at straw men.

Update: "According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, there are 81,721,000 pet cats in the United States, an average of 2.2 per cat-owning household (37,460,000). Does that mean that we are a nation of cat worshipers?" asks Connecticut Yankee rhetorically in the comments. As Gayle Miller responds, "With cats, being worshipped is a given to their minds!" A king can look at a cat?

Update II: Lots more objects of national worship at Modulator's Friday Ark #246.

Comments

[Stoutcat]

Sissy--he also said virtually the same thing back in March or April of this year, while he on the Turkish leg of his Apology Tour: http://tinyurl.com/qp9syj

At least we can be grateful that he's consistent on some things.

[Gayle Miller]

How much longer do we have to endure this incompetent clown, dear Lord? Omigod. This is only his first year of four!

Our only hope is to elect some legislators with spines and intelligence to the Congress in 2010, thus ameliorating to some extent the toxic nature of this presidency!

One thing Alfred E. Neumann Obama has accomplished - he makes Joe Biden look somewhat statesmanlike!

[goomp]

I don't know about our religious status, but I do know that a nation of the ignorant elected our current President, and it will be interesting to see if he allows elections by 2010.

[Account Deleted]

Sometimes I forget we're a Muslim nation but then I am reminded, like when I was at the mall yesterday and they broadcast the call to prayer over the intercom and we all stopped where we were, unfurled our prayer rugs, and knelt in the direction of Mecca.

[Teresa]

Every time he opens his mouth lately I cringe.

[Gayle Miller]

The “stealth” candidate strikes again.

President Barack Hussein Obama has suggested that the U.S. is the largest Muslim country in the world: a world that includes 1.5 billion Muslims as opposed to 1.13 billion Catholics worldwide, 67 million of which lived in the U.S., while 5,220,00 Muslims are estimated to live in the U.S.

As near as I can tell, we Catholics far outnumber the Muslims, at least here, and I would hesitate to call this a thoroughly Catholic country - although that would be a preferable condition to my mind. Is our President somehow looking forward to sharia law taking over in this nation? Is he interested in his wife (a woman inordinately fond of displaying her bare arms) being wrapped in a burkha? To all the gays and lesbians who have supported his presidency being summarily executed?

Barack Obama's problem is that he doesn't think things through to their logical conclusion when he gets his marching orders from George Soros!

[Connecticut Yankee]

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, there are 81,721,000 pet cats in the United States, an average of 2.2 per cat-owning household (37,460,000). Does that mean that we are a nation of cat worshipers? (Not that Tiny and my three kitties would mind if we were, of course)

[Gayle Miller]

With cats, being worshipped is a given to their minds! I know Sam the Wonder Cat fully expects it.