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Why Conservatives Are So Angry About Obama’s Reference to “Easter Worshippers”

BY RUTH GRAHAM

APRIL 22, 20199:09 PM

Sri Lankan officials inspect St. Sebastian’s Church in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan officials inspect St. Sebastian’s Church after multiple explosions targeting churches and hotels on Sunday in Negombo, Sri Lanka. Stringer/Getty Images

To most people, former President Barack Obama’s tweet about the brutal terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday read as standard post-presidential material: correct, sensible, and essentially anodyne.

 

The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity. On a day devoted to love, redemption, and renewal, we pray for the victims and stand with the people of Sri Lanka.

 

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 21, 2019

But then some right-wingers noticed that other prominent figures on the left, including Hillary Clinton and Julián Castro, had used the phrase Easter worshippers too. Soon, a suspicion arose: “Easter worshippers” is a euphemism used by “people who don’t want to say ‘Christians.’ ” “We’re actually called Christians not ‘Easter worshippers’ wouldn’t hurt to maybe just say that,” a National Review writer tweeted. Obama and friends “could not bring themselves to identify the victims of the attacks as ‘Christians,’ ” Breitbart huffed, deeming the phrase a “Sympathy Snub.” An op-ed in the Washington Times called Obama and Clinton “anti-Christian.”

 

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/04/easter-worshippers-obama-hillary-conservative-backlash.html