President Obama speaks on protecting religious freedoms at the National Prayer Breakfast
buzzz worthy. . . AP photo. As his Holiness the Dalai Lama sat in the audience, today at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton Hotel, President Obama said in an excerpt from his speech: " Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth -- our job is to be true to Him, His word, and His commandments. And we should assume humbly that we’re confused and don’t always know what we’re doing and we’re staggering and stumbling towards Him, and have some humility in that process. And that means we have to speak up against those who would misuse His name to justify oppression, or violence, or hatred with that fierce certainty. No God condones terror. No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives, or the oppression of those who are weaker or fewer in number. And so, as people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those who try to distort our religion -- any religion -- for their own nihilistic ends....