By the end of last week, liberal writers were miffed that anyone should be upset or offended by President Obama’s simplistic, intellectually lazy attempt at the National Prayer Breakfast to draw a parallel between Christianity’s effect on the western world and the ongoing genocide by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fundamentalists.

“Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place,” Obama said, “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.”